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On Jan 27, 2012, at 8:31 AM, Jambunathan K <kjambunat...@gmail.com> wrote: > Tom > > The aspect I am exploring is this: > > Does numbering behavious occur uniformly for a *given* level? For > example, are we talking of a scenario where level 3 heading in Tree-1 is > numbered while level 3 heading on a Tree-2 is unnumbered. What would be > the behaviour of level 4 heading in Tree-1. > > It seems to me, that an unnumbered heading is a mnemonic(?) for creating > a paragraph (albeit a short one) that is styled very much like a > heading. When one looks at a printed document, one doesn't really know > what mechanism were used to achieve a particular typesetting effect and > there could be multiple mechanisms by which the same effect could be > achieved. > LaTeX formats \section* just like \section, except it is not numbered even if \section is, it doesn't change the numbering of subsequent \sections, and it does not appear in TOC. > If the above paragraph is true , I think the right thing to do would be > to associate a paragraph style with *just* the heading component of an > Org's outline level and leave it to the exporter what particular code it > wants to emit. > -- At some point a property would be useful. Back ends could deal with it differently. Tom
