Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik <at> gmail.com> writes: > > 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.
Good point. The separation of typesetting and content is of course more reasonable than my lazyness.