Hi everyone,


On Thu, Sep 21, 2017 at 1:16 AM, Kaushal Modi <kaushal.m...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 20, 2017, 2:43 PM Scott Randby <sran...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On 09/20/2017 12:17 PM, Carsten Dominik wrote:
>> > On Thu, Sep 7, 2017 at 5:01 PM, Eric Abrahamsen <
>> e...@ericabrahamsen.net>
>> > wrote:
>> > I do object to removing unnumbered headers from the toc.
>
>
> I believe this change was made to fix the case of mixed numbered and
> unnumbered headings in the TOC.
>
> Please see the other thread[1] where I suggest supporting the "case 3"
> where we want TOC where all headings are numbered i.e. the case of num:nil.
>

This would address my main concern and make it usable, yes.

It is another question if the association of unnumbered and not toc-listed
is a useful one in general.  The cleanest would be to have properties like
NO_TOC_LISTING and NOT_NUMBERED or so to allow local control.  Conflating
it with the global switches I find a bit confusing.

Carsten


>
>  It
>
> breaks
>> > documented and used behaviour and aI see no pressing reason to change
>> it. I
>> > find, for compact documents, it works extremely well to have a toc that
>> has
>> > no numbers - in fact, in many cases I find numbered tocs even
>> annoying.  In
>> > particular, it works really well in websites, where I use it constantly.
>>
>
> Mine is the same use case and the num:nil case covers that.
>
>  I have to agree with Carsten. I use unnumbered table of contents all the
>> time in web pages. Almost all of my Org files that generate web pages have
>> the following:
>>
>> #+options: num:nil toc:t
>>
>
> @Scott Please see that other thread[1]. I have this exact use case. And if
> the case 3 discussed in that thread is supported all should be good.
>
> [1]: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-orgmode/2017-09/msg00497.html
> --
>
> Kaushal Modi
>

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