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From: Nick Dokos <nicholas.dokos@hp.com>
Subject: Re: Re: unnumbered subsections in latex export
Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2011 15:00:00 -0400
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Cc: Lawrence Mitchell <wence@gmx.li>, nicholas.dokos@hp.com, emacs-orgmode@gnu.org

Jambunathan K <kjambunathan@gmail.com> wrote:

> 
> >> For example, I don't know if the docbook backend explicitly
> >> writes section numbers in, or if the sectioning is left to the
> >> stylesheet.  If the latter, can I mark sections as ones that
> >> should be numbered and ones that shouldn't?
> >> 
> >
> > And I'm sure Jambunathan will take care of the odt exporter.
> 
> I think from odt side of things users are very likely to turn off
> numbering and toc altogether and be more than happy to give finishing
> touches with automatic outline numbering facility and automatic toc
> generation facility offered by the viewers.
> 
> Currently the TOC and section-numbering generated by the odt exporter is
> artificial. i.e., It looks like section numbers and TOC but the
> underlying xml elements are not spitted out by the odt exporter.
> 
> Considering that the odt exporter is new I believe there is some
> flexibility on my side to reject certain features as too niche for a
> first level release :-).
> 

Of course: if somebody needs the functionality, they implement it and
submit it - that's open source in a nutshell.

OTOH, it is important to document such limitations, so that innocent
users don't end up spending hours trying to do something that cannot
be done. 

Nick