Re: [tdf-discuss] Wiki heading styles need numbering

On Wednesday 17 November 2010 21:52, Christoph Noack wrote:
> Am Mittwoch, den 17.11.2010, 13:16 +0100 schrieb Nino Novak:
> > On Wednesday 17 November 2010 12:58, David Nelson wrote:
> > > I'd like to suggest that the wiki should be reconfigured so that
> > > headings show numbering. It would make content on pages much
> > > easier to refer to (I know there's numbering in the Table of
> > > Contents block but, IMHO, it's not enough).
> >
> > In localsettings.php, you can change numberheadings to 1 and be
> > done with it. No code changes.[1]
>
> David, you refer to references to the page. I think one of the
> advantages of a wiki page is, that the content might change
> quickly/easily ... and so does (might) the numbering. It is more a
> "living" document. I think this is the reason for omitting the
> heading numbers (in the default setting).

For quicker referencing a current topic it's fine to have autonumbering 
ON. Sometimes on longer pages there are several headings sounding very 
similar so referencing them by number clarifies unambigously which 
section is referred to. That might be wrong tomorrow, but nevertheless 
cleares things today ;-)

N.

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