Re: Limit Heading Numbering Depth (Feature Wish)

[John MacFarlane <jgm-TVLZxgkOlNX2fBVCVOL8/A@public.gmane.org>]

If you're targeting LaTeX/PDF, you can achieve this in the template.
But I can see the use for this in other formats.

+++ Tim Hill [Jan 19 15 14:25 ]:
>   I would love to see a command line switch "--numbering-depth" in Pandoc
>   that works in a similar manner to "--toc-depth" but for section
>   numbering.
>   Rationale: We create documents with four levels of heading (H1 to H4 in
>   HTML parlance), but only with H1 and H2 to be numbered (H3 is used for
>   API names and H4 for paragraph headings). At present, we can do this by
>   marking the H3/H4 headings as unnumbered, something like:
>   ### Some Heading {-}
>   It works well, BUT I have a couple of issues with this. First, I can't
>   tell you how often our documentation guys forget to add that "{-}" tag.
>   Second, I don't like the idea of decorating a markdown file with
>   something that really feels more to me like output policy.
>   So my wish is that I can use something like "--number-sections
>   --numbering-depth 2" to limit section numbering to H1/H2 only.
>   I *suspect* there might be a way to do this already, but I've poked at
>   style sheets and various options and haven't found anything except the
>   "{-}" tags.
>   Good/bad idea?
>   --Tim
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