Hi Ben,

you correctly analyzed that this has something to do with the space  
character after the the dot.  Org considers a number with a dot as an  
ordered list bullet only if it is followed by a space character.   
Otherwise, any number like 1.23 at the beginning of a line would be  
considered a bullet.

The reason why Bernt could not reproduce it is because you use `org- 
cycle-include-plain-lists' (you forgot to mention that...) and he  
probably does not.

- Carsten

On May 5, 2008, at 11:40 PM, bva@alexanderonline.org wrote:
> This is odd, but since I've not yet taken the time to update my org- 
> mode to the latest version, perhaps this is a non issue.  Would  
> someone with an up-to-date version try this out.
>
> org-version reports: Org-mode version 5.23a
>
> version reports:  GNU Emacs 22.1.50.1 (powerpc-apple-darwin7.9.0,  
> Carbon Version 1.6.0) of 2007-10-02 on applecore.inf.ed.ac.uk -  
> Aquamacs Distribution 1.2a
>
>
> I have the following list under a headline, with blank entries:
>
> *** Vacation Days
>   1. <2008-03-20 Thu>
>   2.
>   3.
>   4.
>   5.
>   6.
>
> If I (fold and then) unfold the headline to "CHILDREN", I see the  
> following:
>
> *** Vacation Days
>   1. <2008-03-20 Thu>...
>   3.
>   4. ...
>   6.
>
> This looks odd to me: item number 2 is folded, as is item number 5.   
> It looks like an out of sequence list, so I tried to renumber it  
> using C-c C-c.  Then I see:
>
> *** Vacation Days
>   1. <2008-03-20 Thu>...2.
>   3.
>   4. ...5.
>   6.
>
> In recreating this, I discovered my inconsistency which seems to  
> cause this: line items number 2 and 5 do not have a space after  
> their period. Add some spaces, and there is no weirdness.  Take all  
> the spaces away, and then "CHILDREN" folded headlines look like:
>
> *** Vacation Days
>   1. <2008-03-20 Thu>...
>
> Now that I know that what looked like an 'out of sequence' list is  
> just folded in a weird way, I'm over it.  I can certainly add the  
> place holder space when I create blank line items manually (they are  
> added automatically when I use M-<return>.  But it is curious, and  
> probably unexpected behavior.  Is this easy to fix or has it already  
> been fixed in the current update?
>
> Maybe no fix is required.
>
> -Ben
>
> (And thanks again for org-mode, and the mailing list too!)
>
>
>
>
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