[FEATURE REQUEST]: Numbered headings

[DutchPete]

Describe your feature request

Each header/header type to be numbered automatically. Thus the 1st H1 header should be numbered 1.0, the 2nd H1 header should be numbered 2.0, and so on.

The 1st H2 header under 1.0 should be numbered 1.1, the 1st H2 header under 2.0 should be numbered 2.1, and so on

What problem does this feature solve? [optional]

Readability of a document, esp. a long document with numerous headers and subheaders.

Additional context [optional]

[stefnotch]

The Markdown spec sadly doesn't seem to support numbered headings.

A similar Markdown Editor chose to let users apply their own CSS to their Markdown documents to get numbered headings http://support.typora.io/Auto-Numbering/

[DutchPete]

A similar Markdown Editor chose to let users apply their own CSS to their Markdown documents to get numbered headings http://support.typora.io/Auto-Numbering/

I am aware of the Typora system: I use Typora. I discovered MT yesterday and was impressed by its features. It misses a few essentials for my use case, but it has a number of things it does better.

In Typora one has to create a base.user.css file that one has to put in the themes subfolder of the .config folder. MT does not have a themes folder, so I copied Typora's base.user.css file to MT's .config folder, but that does not work.

Next I copied the contents of thebase.user.css file to MT's preferences.json file, but that does not work either.

So, please tell me how to use the base.user.css file. FYI, I have attached it here. Note: I added the .txt extension because .css files are not accepted here. To see the code properly, just Rename the file by deleting the .txt bit.
base.user.css.txt

[fxha]

Thank you for taking the time to open this issue. Numbered headings is not a markdown standard but can be easy implemented with user styles later or added as theme settings option. Depending on demand, we'll add this feature. Please 👍 this issue if you like the idea.

So, please tell me how to use the base.user.css file. FYI, I have attached it here. Note: I added the .txt extension because .css files are not accepted here. To see the code properly, just Rename the file by deleting the .txt bit.

Custom themes or user styles (CSS) are currently not supported and tracked in #174.

[DutchPete]

Please +1 this issue if you like the idea.

Where can I +1 this issue?

Custom themes or user styles (CSS) are currently not supported and tracked in #174.

Issue #174 is quite old already; I am not interested in custom themes, what is on offer is more than adequate as far as I am concerned. Nevertheless, can you give an indication as to when user styles will be supported?

[fxha]

Where can I +1 this issue?

Please click "+ 😄" button in the top-right of you first post and select 👍.

Issue #174 is quite old already; I am not interested in custom themes, what is on offer is more than adequate as far as I am concerned. Nevertheless, can you give an indication as to when user styles will be supported?

I think custom themes are planned for v0.16.0 but @Jocs know more about it and is also assigned for this topic but both of us are currently a little bit busy.

[Jocs]

In Typora one has to create a base.user.css file that one has to put in the themes subfolder of the .config folder. MT does not have a themes folder, so I copied Typora's base.user.css file to MT's .config folder, but that does not work.

Sorry! we didn't support custom CSS yet, I think custom theme will solve this problem, but now, we didn't support it yet. we'll already add the plan (add custom theme) in the project v0.16.0, so stay tuned.

[DutchPete]

Sorry! we didn't support custom CSS yet, I think custom theme will solve this problem, but now, we didn't support it yet. we'll already add the plan (add custom theme) in the project v0.16.0, so stay tuned.

OK, thank you.

[retsyo]

the header/toc/outliner css can show number in typora. however

	pdf	docx
header	has number	no number
toc	has number	no number
outline/bookmark	no number	no number

so I am still voting for marktext to support it since there is limitation in typora's implementation

[DutchPete]

@retsyo : pdf and docx are not markdown formats, so you cannot add numbering to them from within Mark Text. You would have to export it to a PDF (not sure about Word) and the headings will show up and are clickable. Right now MT cannot do numbered headings.

[retsyo]

a temporary solution for heading:

1. export a markdown file in which all heading(#, ##, ###, ...) are replace by number+heading
2. export the new markdown file

[retsyo]

@DutchPete, I mean export markdown file to PDF/DOCX

[fxha]

@retsyo @DutchPete We current only support numbered heading in exported documents. You can download the latest release candidate Github.

[retsyo]

I found the option, but I think there is bug
#1830

[j0uni]

Thank you for taking the time to open this issue. Numbered headings is not a markdown standard but can be easy implemented with user styles later or added as theme settings option. Depending on demand, we'll add this feature. Please 👍 this issue if you like the idea.

So, please tell me how to use the base.user.css file. FYI, I have attached it here. Note: I added the .txt extension because .css files are not accepted here. To see the code properly, just Rename the file by deleting the .txt bit.

Custom themes or user styles (CSS) are currently not supported and tracked in #174.

Yes, absolutely must have feature. I have used Typora and that is the first thing I modder to custom CSS and I wish Marktext has the same feature too. Either by customing or just a setting to turn on/off.

[brotherdust]

👍
Please! I pretty much have to have this for my documents.

[balaji-ch]

This is the deal breaker for me to move from typora.

[prosong]

Like it. 👍