> 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.
A week or so ago I asked a similar question about the HTML export and lists. http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-orgmode/2013-05/msg01324.html So I just wanted to toss in my 2ยข. On Jun 6, 2013, at 2:17 AM, Carsten Dominik wrote: > 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. I think this argument makes sense; and to be honest, that's probably how I want the exporter to behave most of the time. However, there is particular use case where I find this frustrating, which is writing problem sets. There I like to reference other parts of the problems by name. For example, a) Do something. b) Use your answer in part a) to do something else. Then, if I want to export it to multiple formats (say, html and pdf), there is no general way to tell orgmode: "my alphabetical bullet choice was meaningful, please try to preserve it". One ends up inserting little workarounds for each export format. Which is not a big deal, but when everything else works so seamlessly it's these little things that stand out :) Best, Josiah
