Re: org-list-allow-alphabetical LaTeX export

[Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>]

On 6.6.2013, at 19:39, Josiah Schwab <jschwab@gmail.com> wrote:

>> On 6 jun. 2013, at 10:20, Michael Bach <phaebz <at> gmail.com> wrote:
>>> The LaTeX exporter does not honor the setting of org-list-allow-alphabetical.  
> 
> A week or so ago I asked a similar question about the HTML export and lists.
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-orgmode/2013-05/msg01324.html
> So I just wanted to toss in my 2¢.
> 
> On Jun 6, 2013, at 2:17 AM, Carsten Dominik wrote:
>> Conventions about the type of bullet to be used in a document belong to the typesetting side, and I rather establish a global setting for a document than follow my momentary decisions when I write the Org-mode version of it.  On a similar vein, we do have lists starting with - and * and +, but we still let LaTeX and HTML choose what to use as a bullet.  To me this feels like the right behavior.
> 
> I think this argument makes sense;  and to be honest, that's probably how I want the exporter to behave most of the time.
> 
> However, there is particular use case where I find this frustrating, which is writing problem sets.  There I like to reference other parts of the problems by name.  For example, 
> 
> a) Do something.
> b) Use your answer in part a) to do something else.
> 
> Then, if I want to export it to multiple formats (say, html and pdf), there is no general way to tell orgmode: "my alphabetical bullet choice was meaningful, please try to preserve it".  One ends up inserting little workarounds for each export format.  Which is not a big deal, but when everything else works so seamlessly it's these little things that stand out :)


This is a good point - but this calls for something else:  A mechanism to name a particular list item and refer to it by name.  In LaTeX you can put a \label into an ordered list item and refer to it with \ref.  I am not sure if the new exporter allows this for list items, but I do not thing so.  Nicolas, has this ever been considered?  I don't remember.

This would be useful.

Or, make sure you use a LaTeX stype or HTML style file that uses a specific labeling system.

- Carsten