Re: Feature request: lists with letters

[Titus von der Malsburg <malsburg@posteo.de>]

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On 2017-02-02 Thu 19:57, Nicolas Goaziou wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Titus von der Malsburg <malsburg@posteo.de> writes:
>
>> One issue with org-list-allow-alphabetical is that we get numbers
>> instead of letters when we export to HTML and LaTeX.  I saw the earlier
>> thread [0] that gives the reasoning for this but I find it
>> unsatisfying.  If Org allows us to distinguish between -, +, 1., 1), a.,
>> A., a), A), this should also be honored by the exporter.
>
> This is also why I dislike the feature.
>
>> Otherwise it’s rather pointless to allow that distinction in the first
>> place.
>
> Exactly.
>
>> IMHO, a clean solution would be to either drop everything but - and
>> 1. or to keep all these and make the exporters honor them.  The former
>> would breaks existing documents and is therefore out of the
>> question.  This leaves us with the second solution.
>
> I wouldn't rule that out. Breaking changes happen. We can provide tools
> to fix existing documents.
>
> Actually, I like the idea of keeping only "-" and "1.". We could
> implement other bullet types as overlays.
>
>> Any chance you are willing to reconsider the decision to ignore
>> allow-alphabetical during export?
>
> I still agree with Carsten in the thread you pointed out. Org document
> is about structure. The bullet in about typesetting.

Correct me if I’m wrong but there are a lot of things in Org that are
just about typesetting: *bold*, /italic/, _underlined_, =verbatim= and
~code~, +strike-through+.  Would you remove these things as well?

  Titus

>> I think it would be very useful to have that. I know there are other
>> ways to get alphabetical bullets in exported documents but they are
>> all specific to certain export targets and the beauty of Org mode is
>> precisely that we can export to many different targets.
>
> The beauty of Org is also to allow to control different export targets
> in the same document.
>
> I think this is a non-issue.
>
> Regards,
>
> --
> Nicolas Goaziou                                                0x80A93738


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