Re: [PATCH] Alphabetical ordered lists

[Bernt Hansen <bernt@norang.ca>]

Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com> writes:

> On Jul 29, 2010, at 10:27 PM, Nathaniel Flath wrote:
>
>> Hello all,
>>
>> One thing that had been bugging me was the inability to have an
>> ordered list of the form:
>>
>> a.  Item 1
>> b.  Item 2
>> c.  Item 3
>>
>> The following patch enables this, with lists going from a-z and A-Z.
>> Let me know if there are any issues with it.
>
> Hi,
>
> I am not really sure we need these.  They cause problems when lists get
> really long - also you patch does not further than "z", after that I
> get "{".
>
> Furthermore the export backends implement their own numbering
> rules anyway.  So it seems to me that we do not need this addition.
>
> Any other votes here?

I'm not currently missing this feature.  I think it definitely would
have to handle more entries if this was to be included in org-mode.

Maybe going something like

  a.
  b.
  ...
  z.
  aa.
  ab.
  ...
  az.
  ba.
  bb.
  ...
  zz.
  ... and if you really need more entries than that (unlikely) you can
  do
  aaa.
  aab.
  ...
  and just keep going indefinitely.

-Bernt