From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Titus von der Malsburg Subject: Re: Feature request: lists with letters Date: Thu, 02 Feb 2017 21:05:07 +0100 Message-ID: <87poj0bbpo.fsf@posteo.de> References: <87shnwbiyx.fsf@posteo.de> <87tw8ccwae.fsf@nicolasgoaziou.fr> <87r33gbcrg.fsf@posteo.de> <87bmukcqnn.fsf@nicolasgoaziou.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="=-=-="; micalg=pgp-sha256; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:33313) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cZNd7-0002q7-QW for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Feb 2017 15:05:18 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cZNd5-0000Mf-3e for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Feb 2017 15:05:17 -0500 Received: from mout02.posteo.de ([185.67.36.66]:57357) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cZNd4-0000MO-TQ for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Feb 2017 15:05:15 -0500 Received: from submission (posteo.de [89.146.220.130]) by mout02.posteo.de (Postfix) with ESMTPS id CC63D20C08 for ; Thu, 2 Feb 2017 21:05:11 +0100 (CET) In-reply-to: <87bmukcqnn.fsf@nicolasgoaziou.fr> List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Emacs-orgmode" To: Nicolas Goaziou Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org --=-=-= Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 2017-02-02 Thu 19:57, Nicolas Goaziou wrote: > Hello, > > Titus von der Malsburg 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=E2=80=99s 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=E2=80=99m wrong but there are a lot of things in Org that a= re just about typesetting: *bold*, /italic/, _underlined_, =3Dverbatim=3D 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 =2D- Dr. Titus von der Malsburg Visiting Professor for Computational Psycholinguistics Department of Linguistics University of Potsdam, Germany https://tmalsburg.github.io PGP fingerprint: C34C 7364 EAAD 4752 FABA 35E6 AE34 59F3 C613 689D GNU Ring ID: ring:a1494601ee7d214bdfd8105dca065aee6d653556 --=-=-= Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQEcBAEBCAAGBQJYk5DzAAoJEK40WfPGE2id1pgH/2ejRWl5dykJY442OuPa5MCL zvP9ha40wDPomxuCn7QWZYi6n+6v3R7MoOoyBLTltwlr9LP8qgfcNEwYzYTd1wT6 sDwH7vP1h/XlNg1oev8+zyC2SXLiIbJoVxR/3qP+Hg0XGsHrkQ1gZ8smicXmp9IX 4f1pG3Pll9qP+Zg0IBx1nu/S5N16jgnZYOPGpXgouaSVIx4RHPJE5NLir7AODhh9 PoaH8PvYB8giCnRv0Y0rBjwqR3YmbrsMt+sK2kx8FSddgpkyP66amfSZ+C6Cylam v8Vem8K0f9HK83xdokO1NTTBo/+fVmXYW50yNFE7bWy+rJOXJLwkZ/jVszmbNm4= =QEn7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-=-=--