Juan Manuel Macías <maciasch...@posteo.net> writes: > Nota bene: I understand that all these functionalities for verses are, > at the moment, a minority in Org, since Org has a small number of > Humanities users (here in Spain I try to gain followers among my > colleagues, but it is an arduous task). In any case, I think features > like this can attract more Humanities users...
I do like the proposed feature. However, I'd prefer if instead of introducing a whole new functionality we could extend the existing one. This approach generally leads to code that is easier to maintain. > There are some differences between code numbering and verse numbering, > which is a convention used in Humanities and used by wikipedia and other > sites as well: > > - The first verse is never numbered; > > - White lines are not numbered; > > - Numbering is added in a sequence, never continuously. The sequence is > generally 5, but it is common to find sequences of 3, 10 or other > digits (with that I answer your second question). > ... > I think line numbering is an idiosyncratic case and should not be > confused with standard line numbering as understood by Emacs linum-mode > or any other text editor. What I don't know is if the switches code > numbering could be reused in that peculiar case. An interesting > functionality could be to choose at which number the quoted fragment or > poem begins (because it is common to quote fragments of long poems. In > the LaTeX version this is obtained by :latexcode \setverselinenums{}{} >From the above, the verse numbering looks simply like an extended line numbering. Normal line numbering can be thought as a subset of the proposed features. Best, Ihor