On 6 jun. 2013, at 11:11, Michael Bach <pha...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik <at> gmail.com> writes:
>
>>> On 6 jun. 2013, at 10:20, Michael Bach <phaebz <at> gmail.com> wrote:
>>> The LaTeX exporter does not honor the setting of org-list-allow-
> alphabetical.
>>
>> I think it never did. Such a list is just an ordered list for export, the
> bullet type is just visual sugar in the Org buffer.
>> To force a special bulllet type, you should use other means (literal
> LaTeX). For example:
>>
>> ---------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>> * test
>>
>> 1. skfkshafkj
>> 2. fkjshfksj
>>
>> #+LaTeX: {\renewcommand{\theenumi}{\alph{enumi}}
>>
>> 1. kajsfkjhf
>> 2. fjsfksjhf
>>
>> #+LaTeX: }
>>
>> 1. sss
>> 2. ljhsdfkjh
>> ---------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>
> Oh, I never saw it handled by the exporter, just a wrong assumption. Just
> out of curiosity, do you think this could be implemented 'easily'?
I guess it could be - but I am not sure if it should. Conventions about the
type of bullet to be used in a document belong to the typesetting side, and I
rather establish a global setting for a document than follow my momentary
decisions when I write the Org-mode version of it. On a similar vein, we do
have lists starting with - and * and +, but we still let LaTeX and HTML choose
what to use as a bullet. To me this feels like the right behavior.
- Carsten
>
> Thanks for clarification and example.
>
> Michael
>
>
>
