Tahnks for suggesting this improvement to the documentation - it is  
now implemented.

- Carsten

On Aug 18, 2008, at 10:29 PM, Trey Jackson wrote:

> Bernt wrote:
>> I think this is expected behaviour.  Your startup options are
>> conflicting.  You normally have only one of showstarts or hidestars
>> since their settings are mutually exclusive.  You also only have  
>> one of
>> odd or oddeven.  I think the last encountered setting wins so your
>> startup options are equivalent to
>>
>> #+STARTUP: hidestars oddeven
>
> Duh.
>
> FWIW, I was blindly cut/pasting from the *info* pages, which says:
> (section: 14.5 A cleaner outline view)
>
> ,----------------
> |   2. _Hiding leading stars_
> |      You can modify the display in such a way that all leading stars
> |      become invisible.  To do this in a global way, configure the
> |      variable `org-hide-leading-stars' or change this on a per-file
> |      basis with
> |
> |           #+STARTUP: showstars
> |           #+STARTUP: hidestars
> `----------------
>
> When I actually read it, it's obvious, but given the context, I  
> think it'd
> be better to have the docs read something like:
>
>
>  2. _Hiding leading stars_
>     You can modify the display in such a way that all leading stars
>     become invisible.  To do this in a global way, configure the
>     variable `org-hide-leading-stars' or add this line to top of the  
> file:
>
>          #+STARTUP: hidestars
>
>     Note that the opposite behavior is selected with 'showstars'.
>
>
> TJ
>
>
>
> -- 
> Trey Jackson
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>
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