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From: Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: automagically changing roman enumeration to alphabetical
Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2013 08:59:59 +0000
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Paul Rudin <paul@rudin.co.uk> writes:

> I was surprised by this behaviour.
>
> Find a new org-mode file. Type "i)" and then hit M-Ret. The "i)" gets
> renamed as "a)" and "b)" is added on the next line. 
>
> I would have expected that we get "ii)" on the next line and the "i)"
> would be left alone.
>
> Is this working as intended?

It is.  Roman enumeration is not supported.  Org treats i) as alphabetic
enumeration and "re-numbers" the list when you hit M-RET.

The org info manual is out of date in this regard, by the way, in that
it only mentions number based enumerated lists (1., 2., ...).

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