Re: Org is exporting to tex an asterisk between "section" and "{"

[Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk>]

On Friday,  4 Mar 2016 at 18:26, Eduardo Mercovich wrote:
> Hi Eric.
>
>>> Troubleshooting a lack of ToC content in a exported PDF from org, I
>>> found this issue. [...]
>
>> Make sure you have
>> #+options: num:t
>> set.  Otherwise, sections are unnumbered.  I'm not sure what the default
>> is.  Maybe you have "num:nil"?
>
> I had nothing in the document, and your suggestion did the trick.
> Thank you! :)
>
> However, I can't find this in the documentation... shouldn't something
> like this be the default? If not, the ToC and the links are not rendered
> or non-functional.

It is documented, in [[info:org#Export%20settings][info:org#Export settings]],

,----
| ‘num:’
|      Toggle section-numbers (‘org-export-with-section-numbers’).  It can
|      also be set to a number ‘n’, so only headlines at that level or
|      above will be numbered.  Finally, irrespective of the level of a
|      specific headline, the numbering of it can be disabled by setting
|      the ‘UNNUMBERED’ property to non-‘nil’.  This also affects
|      subheadings.
`----

Easy to miss as it is not LaTeX specific, of course.  It's a general
setting that affects potentially any export engine but is obviously only
relevant to some.

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: Eric S Fraga (0xFFFCF67D), Emacs 25.0.91.1, Org release_8.3.4-626-gb62d55