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Re: [Orgmode] Blank lines in numbered lists need a space after the dot.


From: Carsten Dominik
Subject: Re: [Orgmode] Blank lines in numbered lists need a space after the dot.
Date: Tue, 6 May 2008 09:20:55 +0200

Hi Ben,

you correctly analyzed that this has something to do with the space character after the the dot.  Org considers a number with a dot as an ordered list bullet only if it is followed by a space character.  Otherwise, any number like 1.23 at the beginning of a line would be considered a bullet.

The reason why Bernt could not reproduce it is because you use `org-cycle-include-plain-lists' (you forgot to mention that...) and he probably does not.

- Carsten

On May 5, 2008, at 11:40 PM, address@hidden wrote:
This is odd, but since I've not yet taken the time to update my org-mode to the latest version, perhaps this is a non issue.  Would someone with an up-to-date version try this out.

org-version reports: Org-mode version 5.23a

version reports:  GNU Emacs 22.1.50.1 (powerpc-apple-darwin7.9.0, Carbon Version 1.6.0) of 2007-10-02 on applecore.inf.ed.ac.uk - Aquamacs Distribution 1.2a


I have the following list under a headline, with blank entries:

*** Vacation Days
  1. <2008-03-20 Thu>
  2.
  3.
  4.
  5.
  6.

If I (fold and then) unfold the headline to "CHILDREN", I see the following:

*** Vacation Days
  1. <2008-03-20 Thu>...
  3.
  4. ...
  6.

This looks odd to me: item number 2 is folded, as is item number 5.  It looks like an out of sequence list, so I tried to renumber it using C-c C-c.  Then I see:

*** Vacation Days
  1. <2008-03-20 Thu>...2.
  3.
  4. ...5.
  6.

In recreating this, I discovered my inconsistency which seems to cause this: line items number 2 and 5 do not have a space after their period. Add some spaces, and there is no weirdness.  Take all the spaces away, and then "CHILDREN" folded headlines look like:

*** Vacation Days
  1. <2008-03-20 Thu>...

Now that I know that what looked like an 'out of sequence' list is just folded in a weird way, I'm over it.  I can certainly add the place holder space when I create blank line items manually (they are added automatically when I use M-<return>.  But it is curious, and probably unexpected behavior.  Is this easy to fix or has it already been fixed in the current update?

Maybe no fix is required.

-Ben

(And thanks again for org-mode, and the mailing list too!)




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