Re: COUNTER-SET for alphabetical ordered lists ignored for utf-8 exporter

[Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net>]

Stacey Marshall <stacey.marshall@gmail.com> writes:

> Was the intention with this change to remove alphabetical lists from
> text (ascii) exporter?

The intention was to make ascii exporter aware about alphabetical lists
instead of behaving in undefined way.

> ...
> a. Point A
> b. Point B
> c. Point C
> d. [@z] Point Z
> #+end_src
>
> Latest 9.7 alpha results in the alphabetical labels being replaced
> with numbers::
> ..

Yes.

> I must admit that I had not noticed that other exporters converted
> the letter to a number.  Going forward I shall stop using them.
>
> If it is obsoleted or deprecated then a mention to etc/ORG-NEWS
> would be appreciated.

There is nothing to obsolete.
ox-ascii did not process alphabetical lists in any way, which was a bug.
All other exporters convert alphabetical lists into numbered lists.
The bug has been fixed, and the behaviour is now consistent with the rest
of exporters.

If you wish alphabetical lists to be exported specially, feel free to
post a feature request.

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