On Monday,  9 Mar 2020 at 23:31, Lawrence Bottorff wrote:
> I've tried a few variations of trying to turn on org-num-mode (which now
> comes standard in org, correct?) in my init, but I keep getting an error
> buffer upon a fresh startup

Maybe show us what you have right now instead of what others have done?

In any case, this one:

> (use-package org-num
>   :load-path "lisp/"
>   :after org
>   :hook (org-mode . org-num-mode))

should work, as far as I can tell although I don't use use-package at
all.  Have you tried with a reduced .emacs?

You could try the following:

(require 'org)
(require 'org-num)
(add-hook 'org-mode-hook #'org-num-mode)

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: Eric S Fraga via Emacs 28.0.50, Org release_9.3.6-354-g9d5880