Thank you for the response.    <br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="im"><br>
On May 21, 2009, at 4:27 PM, Carsten Dominik wrote:<br>
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The only thing you can do in Org is to increase the number of headline levels to the maximum possible:<br>
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#+OPTION H:5</blockquote></div></blockquote><div> </div><div>This doesn&#39;t work for me.<br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">

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is I think the maximum you can get.  You cal also create a<br>
LaTeX class with more headline leves and push H even further.<br>
I believe there are some clases which provide at least subsubparagraph.<br>
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If you have a good idea how to represent deeper levels in LaTeX, maybe we<br>
can do something clever in the LaTeX exporter.<br>
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I just realize that your question provides the answer to a question<br>
I had for a long time:  Why did Bastien implement lower<br>
levels in the LaTeX export as {description} lists instead of<br>
{itemize} lists.  Now I know the answer:  Because the number of levels<br>
in a description list is not limited.<br>
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I recently changed Bastien&#39;s code to use itemize instead, for<br>
consistence with HTML export.  Fortunately I left the old code<br>
in, with a customization option.  Please try:<br>
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(setq org-export-latex-low-level &#39;description)<br>
</blockquote><div><br>So far, this doesn&#39;t solve my problem.  Should I then use description lists for all outline entries?  <br><br> </div><div>I don&#39;t understand why  I  do not see &quot;section&quot; or &quot;subsection&quot;, and the sections often come out with bare stars.  Is this also because the number of levels has been exceeded?<br>

<br>Thank you again.  This is the first limitation of LaTeX I have not seen an immediate way around.  <br><br><br> </div><div>Alan <br></div></div><br>