Steven Arntson <ste...@stevenarntson.com> writes: > Hello, I'm a beginning org-mode user. > > I'm writing a book with many chapters, each chapter as a top-level > header (*). Is there a way to assign chapter numbers automatically, such > that I might get a result along the lines of: > > * 1. This is a chapter containing thousands of words. > > * 2. This is the next chapter, with many words. > > * 3. And so on. >
There are probably many ways to do that, but I want to invert the question: *why* do you want chapter numbers in your org file? I would argue that they are a bad idea in the vast majority of cases. Nick
