Re: [Feature Request] Create an org-md-toplevel-hlevel variable to allow users to set the level of top level headings in markdown export

[Ihor Radchenko]

"Rohit Patnaik" <quanticle@quanticle.net> writes:

> Hello,
>
> I've been exporting several of my org-mode notes to markdown recently, and 
> I've been running into an issue where I've had to manually adjust the level 
> of the top level headings in my exported notes because the wiki system I'm 
> importing the notes to reserves h1 (i.e. #) for page titles, using h2s (i.e. 
> ##) for sections within the page itself.
>
> I noticed that ox-html.el has a org-html-toplevel-hlevel variable, which 
> allows the user to set the heading level of top-level headings within the 
> exported content. Would there be any problems with implementing a similar 
> variable (e.g. org-md-toplevel-hlevel) to allow the user to set the heading 
> level of top level headings within exported markdown content?

Sounds reasonable. I do not see any issue with this approach. Just be
careful to compute the level early before we decide the deeply-nested
headline style (org-md-headline-style).

> It looks like it would be a small change, and I'd be happy to implement it 
> myself, but I thought I'd run it by the list to see if there were any major 
> issues that might arise from making this change.

This contribution will be welcome.

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