On 6.6.2013, at 19:39, Josiah Schwab <jsch...@gmail.com> wrote: >> 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 :)
This is a good point - but this calls for something else: A mechanism to name a particular list item and refer to it by name. In LaTeX you can put a \label into an ordered list item and refer to it with \ref. I am not sure if the new exporter allows this for list items, but I do not thing so. Nicolas, has this ever been considered? I don't remember. This would be useful. Or, make sure you use a LaTeX stype or HTML style file that uses a specific labeling system. - Carsten
