Best way to automatically number sections

[John MacFarlane]

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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