Re: [O] [ANN] ASCII back-end for new export engine

[Rick Frankel]

On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 01:58:26PM +0100, Nicolas Goaziou wrote:
> Achim Gratz <address@hidden> writes:
> > Unless I miss something, if "num:*" would be allowed in addition to
> > integers, the LaTeX crowd would be pleased, no terribly new syntax would
> > be needed and all other backends could take note to skip numbering that
> > headline.  Maybe one could throw in "nil" and "none" as an alias for
> > "*".
> 
> I don't understand.  What would "num:*" achieve?
> 

I think it's an attempt to be mnemonically similar to LaTeX --
section* for an unnumbered section.

rick