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From: Nicolas Goaziou <n.goaziou@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [ANN] ASCII back-end for new export engine
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Hello,

Rick Frankel <rick@rickster.com> writes:

> On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 01:58:26PM +0100, Nicolas Goaziou wrote:
>> Achim Gratz <Stromeko@nexgo.de> writes:
>> > Unless I miss something, if "num:*" would be allowed in addition to
>> > integers, the LaTeX crowd would be pleased, no terribly new syntax would
>> > be needed and all other backends could take note to skip numbering that
>> > headline.  Maybe one could throw in "nil" and "none" as an alias for
>> > "*".
>> 
>> I don't understand.  What would "num:*" achieve?
>> 
>
> I think it's an attempt to be mnemonically similar to LaTeX --
> section* for an unnumbered section.

I may be bold, but I still don't get it. "num:something" is a global
option. We're talking about specifying _individually_ which headline
wouldn't be numbered. How would a global option solve a local problem?


Regards,

-- 
Nicolas Goaziou