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

[Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net>]

"Tom Alexander" <tom@fizz.buzz> writes:

> It seems that COUNTER-SET[1] is not being honored when exporting to utf-8 for alphabetical lists even though it is honored for numeric lists. When exporting to html, COUNTER-SET is honored for both.
>
> Test document:
> ```
> # An ordered list starting at 3
> 1. [@3] foo
>
>
> # An ordered list starting at 1
> m. bar
>
>
> # An ordered list starting at 11
> m. [@k] baz
> ```
> ...
> But when exporting to utf-8 you get: (whitespace removed again)
> ```
> 3. foo
> m. bar
> m. baz
> ```
>
> Whereas I would expect:  (whitespace removed again)
> ```
> 3. foo
> m. bar
> k. baz
> ```

Fixed, on main.
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs/org-mode.git/commit/?id=26f1cb77a

However, what we do for alphabetical bullets on export is slightly
different:

3. foo
1. bar
11. baz

Other export backends do not preserve alphabetical bullets. Numbers are
always used.

> On a slightly related note: it seems the COUNTER-SET[1] allows single-letter values even when org-list-allow-alphabetical is nil. I don't think that is going to hurt anyone but I figured I should mention it in case its a bug (test doc: `1. [@k] foo` is a plain list starting at 11 even when org-list-allow-alphabetical is nil).
>
> [1] https://orgmode.org/worg/org-syntax.html#Items

org-syntax.html#Items describes what the parser does (`org-element-item-parser').
`org-list-allow-alphabetical' should be changed to t in future and
obsoleted. We aim to reduce config-dependent Org syntax in the long
term.

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