Best way to automatically number sections

Andromac andromac at mac.com
Fri Oct 28 08:46:01 EDT 2011


Thanks you all for your valuable inputs. I am gonna go the pandoc way.

Cheers
Christian


On 27 oct. 2011, at 21:45, John MacFarlane wrote:


> This may work for you:

>

> pandoc --number-sections -t html | pandoc -f html -t markdown

>

> John

>

> +++ David Sanson [Oct 27 11 10:29 ]:

>> Pandoc has a `--number-sections` flag that enables automatic section

>> numbering in various output formats. If you are using TextMate and the

>> [Pandoc.tmbundle], you can use the bundle editor to add that flag to

>> the conversion commands.

>>

>> But if you are looking to automatically add numbering to the markdown

>> source itself, e.g., transforming

>>

>> ~~~

>> # this

>>

>> ## this

>> ~~~

>>

>> into

>>

>> ~~~

>> # 1. this

>>

>> ## 1.1. this

>> ~~~

>>

>> then I don't know of any easy way to do that.

>>

>> Best,

>> David

>>

>> [Pandoc.tmbundle]: https://github.com/dsanson/Pandoc.tmbundle

>>

>> On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 6:14 AM, Andromac <andromac at mac.com> wrote:

>>> Hi list

>>>

>>> Would anyone suggest the most simple approach to automatically number sections and sub-sections ?

>>>

>>> I usually use more than one tool to edit my Markdown files, including Byword, Textmate, etc.

>>>

>>> Thanks in advance

>>> Christian Trotobas

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>>

>>

>>

>> --

>> David Sanson

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