A very useful macro indeed!

One suggestion: can this also be made to support nested headings. For
instance:
* Part {{{c}}}
** Part {{{c}}}.{{{c}}}
* Part {{{c}}}

should export to:

* Part 1
** Part 1.1
* Part 2

I reckon this will be very useful when a paragraphs need to be broken into
several subheadings for clarity/context management.

Dushyant


On Mon, May 8, 2017 at 10:01 AM Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> wrote:

> On Monday,  8 May 2017 at 11:26, Nicolas Goaziou wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I would like to scratch a long-standing itch and introduce the "c"
> > macro, which is basically a way to handle multiple counters in an Org
> > document. So, the following document
>
> This sounds like a very useful macro to have.  Some suggestions:
>
> 1. I would prefer the argument to be called "COUNTER" instead of "SEED"
> as the latter is more commonly associated with random number
> generators.  This would make the documentation clearer potentially.
>
> 2. I wonder if a second argument could be optionally available to allow
> the counter to start at an arbitrary number and/or be reset?
>
> I would definitely be using the macro for, as an example, in preparing
> exams and courseworks where I often have to manually put the numbers in.
>
> thanks,
> eric
>
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