On Mon, May 22, 2017, 1:58 AM Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr>
wrote:

> Even though it is surprising, this is not an issue. The thing is macros
> are expanded at the very beginning of the export process, even before
> the document is parsed. At this point, the example above is properly
> expanded to
>
>   7463.
>
> However, this is then parsed as the first numbered item of a plain list,
> which is then exported as
>
>   1.
>

Thanks for the explanation. That does make sense. The MWE was a little
example I wanted to document for myself for this new feature. So this
example doesn't show a real world use of that macro.

IOW, there is not much we can do. You may want to insert a zero-width
> space between the macro and the dot.
>

It just so happened that autofilling ended up with a number followed by a
period at the BOL. So I couldn't have planned inserting a zero-width space
before the dot.

So this makes me think of the use of auto-filling in my regular org
files... What if auto-filling happened to create a case like this where a
line began with a number immediately followed by a period?! Though ending
sentences with a number is rare, I just need to be cautious about this.

> --

Kaushal Modi