Re: latex enumeration issue

[Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>]

Hi Mark,

On Feb 2, 2010, at 11:08 PM, Mark Elston wrote:

> A year ago Flavio de Souza asked a question about latex enumerations
> that is similar to a problem I now have.  The answer given then was a
> workaround that doesn't apply in my case.
>
> This stems from my project of using a single file to maintain source
> for generating my class notes *and* student handouts for my classes.
> This allows me to take advantage of the common outline and common
> text while specifying text that should go into only one or the other
> document.
>
> I manage to do this by something like:
>
> * Common heading
>
>  Some common text
>
> ** A common subheading
>
>   More common text
>
> ***                                  :handouts:
>    Something for handouts only
>
> ***                                  :both:
>    More common text
>
> ***                                  :notes:
>    My class notes text
>
> ***                                  :both:
>    More common text
>
>
> I have a makefile which creates a temporary .org file by
> prepending a specific header on this file for each type of
> output (handouts or notes), exporting to a latex file, running
> a perl script to remove any (sub)+sections with just the
> tags in them, and running pdflatex to generate the output.
>
> So far, so good.
>
> However, I ran into a problem with enumerations.  Sometimes I
> have enumerations in my original org file which are separated by
> the 'empty' sectioning commands.  This ends the enumeration and
> the next enumerated item starts a new one.  The result is a set
> of enumerations with a single element in it.  I get something
> like:
>
>   1.  Blah
>
>   handout-specific text
>
>   1.  More Blah
>
> etc.  These should really have been 1, 2, etc.


I don't understand.  Why is the text "handout-specific text" still  
there?
Do you need it between the items?  Do you want to make it part of the  
item (indentation would solve this).


>
> The only workaround I have so far is to make all these items lists
> instead of enumerations.  This works OK but they would make much more
> sense as enumerations.


How does this help?

- Carsten