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From: Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
To: Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk>
Cc: Marius Hofert <marius.hofert@math.ethz.ch>,
	Emacs help <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>,
	nicholas.dokos@hp.com, Nicolas Goaziou <n.goaziou@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: How to get numbered lists (1), (2), … ?
Date: Sat, 15 Oct 2011 17:56:01 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <C1AB98BF-9423-4159-8D7A-882A92DAE9EE@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87hb3ae3z5.fsf@ucl.ac.uk>


On 15.10.2011, at 16:14, Eric S Fraga wrote:

> Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com> writes:
> 
>> On 14.10.2011, at 13:31, Nicolas Goaziou wrote:
> 
> [...]
> 
>> 
>>> I have nothing against (1) as item bullets, as it doesn't interfere
>>> with any existing Org syntax.
>> 
>> That is not the only criterion.  Adding new syntax elements make more
>> ASCII sequences special.  The Org markup is a heuristic set of
>> special elements, and there is merrit in keeping it small.  We already
>> have more bullets and in particular numbered types - and so far
>> I have not seen a compelling reason to add more.
>> 
>> - Carsten
> 
> I am in the "keep it simple school".  So long as org allows me to
> distinguish between numbered and unnumbered itemised lists, I am
> happy.  I actually would prefer less choices than there are currently
> because I would like to get to my choice more quickly when I do use
> C-c - to change the type!
> 
> To me, org is about information and time management, not about
> formatting.  YMMV, of course!
> 
> To be blunt, I would be happy with "-" and "1." in org, knowing that I
> can customise upon export if necessary!  I'm not suggesting we go this
> far, however ;-)

Since backward compatibility is necessary, this counts as a vote for a
customizable sequence, as proposed by Nicolas, do I see this right?

So maybe this *is* a good idea, but I would be agains adding new list types.

- Carsten

> 
> -- 
> : Eric S Fraga (GnuPG: 0xC89193D8FFFCF67D) in Emacs 24.0.90.1
> : using Org-mode version 7.7 (release_7.7.381.g05ea)

  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-10-15 15:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-10-13 19:10 How to get numbered lists (1), (2), … ? Nick Dokos
2011-10-13 20:00 ` Marius Hofert
2011-10-13 20:28   ` Nick Dokos
2011-10-14 11:31     ` Nicolas Goaziou
2011-10-14 12:05       ` Jambunathan K
2011-10-14 12:24         ` suvayu ali
2011-10-14 12:37         ` Marius Hofert
2011-10-14 12:14       ` Carsten Dominik
2011-10-15 14:14         ` Eric S Fraga
2011-10-15 14:21           ` Marius Hofert
2011-10-15 15:35           ` Bernt Hansen
2011-10-15 15:56           ` Carsten Dominik [this message]
2011-10-16 15:16             ` Eric S Fraga
2011-10-13 20:02 ` Alan E. Davis
2011-10-13 20:44   ` Nick Dokos
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2011-10-13  9:11 Marius Hofert
2011-10-13  9:37 ` suvayu ali
2011-10-13 15:26   ` Marius Hofert
2011-10-13 18:31     ` suvayu ali

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