Re: [O] Chapter headings

[Nick Dokos]

Steven Arntson <address@hidden> writes:

> Hello, I'm a beginning org-mode user.
>
> I'm writing a book with many chapters, each chapter as a top-level
> header (*). Is there a way to assign chapter numbers automatically, such
> that I might get a result along the lines of:
>
> * 1. This is a chapter containing thousands of words.
>
> * 2. This is the next chapter, with many words.
>
> * 3. And so on.
>

There are probably many ways to do that, but I want to invert the
question: *why* do you want chapter numbers in your org file?
I would argue that they are a bad idea in the vast majority of cases.

Nick