[Docutils-develop] Re: Specifying auto-enum start number [with Patch]

[David A. <da...@bo...>]

David Abrahams <da...@bo...> writes:

> Lele Gaifax <le...@na...> writes:
>
>>>>>>> "David" == David Goodger <go...@py...> writes:
>>
>>     David> Please feel free to check in your patch.  If you don't
>>     David> incorporate the above, I'll do it.  Thanks!
>>
>> Ok, thanx David: I committed a slightly different patch, that uses
>> "start" instead of "startfrom", and puts an entry in the HISTORY.txt.
>>
>> I didn't get at properly fixing the algorithm to make it possible
>> override the dot used as separator.
>
> Ouch.  
>
>
>      .. section-numbering::
>
> isn't working right.  Now I get, e.g.,
>
>       5.3.2   3.2   Subsection Title

Okay, now I understand the problem.  I already had 

  .. section-numbering::

in my documents.  Not realizing that

  .. sectnum::

was the same thing, I put them both in.  Taking the old one out fixed
things.


Okay, but now there's an architectural problem.  This section
numbering stuff should (be able to) affect other things, like table,
figure, and page numbers.

Those numbers are generated by individual writers.  For latex, we
might change the table and page numbering prefixes via

   \renewcommand{\thetable}{5.\arabic{table}}
   \renewcommand{\thepage}{5-\arabic{page}}

I'm not sure what we'd do for the HTML writer, but it probably has to
happen in its internal code.

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Dave Abrahams
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