Hi all,
I am quite impressed by this discussion, thanks a lot.
I am an org-mode user for just a couple of days, and an emacs user for four
weeks today. Needless to say, I can't contribute anything useful to this
discussion.
The only thing(s) I would like to say is/are:
(1) If it is not too complicated from a technical point of view, I would
strongly recommend to enable lists like (1), (2), etc. I gave some reasons in
one of my earlier e-mails in this thread. There are many more (from a
typography point of view, but also from a technical point of view [e.g., if you
have auto-pairing of parentheses enabled, it's just more convenient.]).
(2) From a LaTeX point of view, I am sure the experts here (and I mean everyone
in this thread except me) know the LaTeX package "enumitem". It gives the
greatest flexibility of creating lists I know of and behaves better in many
circumstances than other enumerate-like environments. So I can only recommend
using this approach for making lists (in which way this is possible/desirable I
can't tell since I'm not an org-mode expert).
I will certainly become a heavy org-mode user in the next months/years. Lists
like (1), (2),... I would definitely use a lot.
Cheers,
Marius
On 2011-10-14, at 14:05 , Jambunathan K wrote:
>
>> What about letting go those two variables and create
>> `org-list-bullet-types', which would be a list of strings like:
>>
>> '("-" "+" "*" "1." "1)" "(1)" "a." "a)" "A)" "A.")
>>
>> It would be hard-coded but every bullet type could be opt-in or
>> opt-out via customize. The default value should be as short as
>> possible like '("-" "+" "*" "1." "a.").
>>
>> I can work it out in a few days if we agree.
>
> What percentage of users (OK, not percentage of users but numbers of
> users) you think will *actually* exercise the opt-in and opt-out
> configuration if provided?
>
> If the number of hands raised is in single digits, I would assume that
> it is more of a niche feature and let go of it.
>
> Is it psychologically very taxing to see 1. instead of a (1) in an Org
> buffer. Could it be so taxing that a user's productivity will be
> impacted by it?
>
> Or
>
> Is it that more varieties of bullets is needed for creating "rich"
> deeply nested lists so that each level of the list can take on a
> different bullet for better differentiation.
> --
