Re[2]: [Docutils-users] Re: How to add a tex-math role?

[Alan G I. <ai...@am...>]

On Sun, 02 Jan 2005, Beni Cherniavsky apparently wrote:
> I think automatic numbering could be written easily
> enough.  No need for manual numbering.

That would be great.

On Sun, 02 Jan 2005, Beni Cherniavsky apparently wrote:
> The question is, how to generalize it to other numberable
> things: sections, images/figures, etc.

The issues seem dual:
i. how to signal that something should be numbered,
ii. how to refer to the number

For directives like equations and images/figures,
two obvious alternatives are:
i. specify numbering explicitly (e.g.,
   :number: label
where the label is optional) on a per item
basis, so that only the requested items are
numbered
or
ii. specify numbering by the object type
somehow (e.g., say with 
.. number-equations::
directive.) Later equations with the option
   :number: anotherlabel
would then not affect numbering but simply assign
a number to a label.

For directives, this seems to be a general solution?
Sections seem to be a separate case.

Alan Isaac