On 15.10.2011, at 16:14, Eric S Fraga wrote: > Carsten Dominik <carsten.domi...@gmail.com> writes: > >> On 14.10.2011, at 13:31, Nicolas Goaziou wrote: > > [...] > >> >>> I have nothing against (1) as item bullets, as it doesn't interfere >>> with any existing Org syntax. >> >> That is not the only criterion. Adding new syntax elements make more >> ASCII sequences special. The Org markup is a heuristic set of >> special elements, and there is merrit in keeping it small. We already >> have more bullets and in particular numbered types - and so far >> I have not seen a compelling reason to add more. >> >> - Carsten > > I am in the "keep it simple school". So long as org allows me to > distinguish between numbered and unnumbered itemised lists, I am > happy. I actually would prefer less choices than there are currently > because I would like to get to my choice more quickly when I do use > C-c - to change the type! > > To me, org is about information and time management, not about > formatting. YMMV, of course! > > To be blunt, I would be happy with "-" and "1." in org, knowing that I > can customise upon export if necessary! I'm not suggesting we go this > far, however ;-)
Since backward compatibility is necessary, this counts as a vote for a customizable sequence, as proposed by Nicolas, do I see this right? So maybe this *is* a good idea, but I would be agains adding new list types. - Carsten > > -- > : Eric S Fraga (GnuPG: 0xC89193D8FFFCF67D) in Emacs 24.0.90.1 > : using Org-mode version 7.7 (release_7.7.381.g05ea)
