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

> > Oh, I never saw it handled by the exporter, just a wrong assumption.  Just 
> > out of curiosity, do you think this could be implemented 'easily'?
> 
> I guess it could be - but I am not sure if it should.  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.

Good point.  The separation of typesetting and content is of course more 
reasonable than my lazyness.