Yujie Wen <yjwen.ty@gmail.com> writes:

>   I am wondering whether it is possible to define the starting number
> of headings when exporting org-mode files.
>
>   The problem is that, I had a long Org file that I want to separate
> it into several small ones, each will be exported to a HTML file. But
> if so, every exported HTML will have the headings numbered from 1,
> while I prefer the headings be numbered as if they are exported from
> one file, to show the continuation of contents.
>

If you split the big org file into small ones, you can use #+INCLUDE to
put things back together. It does not do quite what you want - it'll
produce a single HTML file on export - but I for one don't really care
what the HTML file looks like, as long as I can edit convenienttly.

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Nick