Hi Günter,
nice catch, but I actually like the old way better! It is a
good way to specify the bullet if you like. Org-mode does
intentionally remove that white space.
Now, I agree that this is inconsistent with the other backends, but
I do still like this possibility.
Why do you need [A] the
I think there is a problem using brackets at the beginning
of plain list items with the LaTeX backend:
1. [A] foo bar...
The generated LaTeX code looks like:
\item[A] foo bar...
but rather this would be the expected output:
\item{}[A] foo bar...
Here follows the patch:
*** org-list.e