Re: [O] [PATCH] Export: Override headline numbering via properties

2013-05-23 Thread Nicolas Goaziou
Hello, Thanks for your patch. An alternative would be to stick this into ox-latex.el, which then wouldn't interfere with other backends. I also think this functionality is good to have, since longer latex documents often have unnumbered sections (and there seem to be periodic questions on

Re: [O] [PATCH] Export: Override headline numbering via properties

2013-05-16 Thread Albert Z. Wang
Mark Edgington edgi...@gmail.com writes: Anyway, your patch will not work on back-ends that rely on Org to compute section numbers (e.g., ascii, html...) because even if you ignore numbering for a particular headline, it still adds up internally. IOW, you also need to patch

Re: [O] [PATCH] Export: Override headline numbering via properties

2013-05-13 Thread Nicolas Goaziou
Hello, Mark Edgington edgi...@gmail.com writes: * lisp/ox.el (org-export-numbered-headline-p): If the `:NUMBERED' property is defined for a headline, turn numbering on when the property value is y (otherwise turn numbering off). Do the same if the `:INHERITED_NUMBERED' property is defined

Re: [O] [PATCH] Export: Override headline numbering via properties

2013-05-13 Thread Mark Edgington
Hello Nicolas, I'm sorry for not having provided more explanation of the patch's purpose. The motivation is basically to permit any kind of manual (in contrast to automatic) control over the section-numbering behavior connected with a particular headline. In LaTeX, for example, you are able to

Re: [O] [PATCH] Export: Override headline numbering via properties

2013-05-13 Thread Mark Edgington
Hi Samuel, I'd guess it isn't exactly the same as what you did -- I assume you are making it possible to modify the numbering level threshold via properties. Is this modification inherited by child-headlines or not? Either way, there would be a lot of hackery required to use this to achieve the

Re: [O] [PATCH] Export: Override headline numbering via properties

2013-05-13 Thread Mark Edgington
Also, I forgot to mention that the patch is tested, and behaves as expected. On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 2:18 AM, Nicolas Goaziou n.goaz...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for your patch. Though, I don't get what you are trying to achieve nor what a use case would be. Have you tested this patch ? It may

Re: [O] [PATCH] Export: Override headline numbering via properties

2013-05-13 Thread Nicolas Goaziou
Hello, Mark Edgington edgi...@gmail.com writes: A couple possible use-cases: 1. a document (or chapter of a document) where the first headline contains general introduction information explaining what the rest of the document (chapter) is about (similar to an abstract, but not identical

Re: [O] [PATCH] Export: Override headline numbering via properties

2013-05-13 Thread Mark Edgington
Hi Nicolas, On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 6:54 AM, Nicolas Goaziou n.goaz...@gmail.com wrote: You can still number these parts manually with, e.g., #+latex: \section*{Introduction} before the first section in your Org document. While this is possible, wouldn't this break the structure of the