Posted by asotobu on Jul 25, 2013; 3:47pm
URL: https://discuss.asciidoctor.org/Auto-Increment-Label-tp393.html

Today has come an idea which I think that it is supported yet by Asciidoctor, and moreover it is not in AsciiDoc standard, but I think can be useful in some circumstances. I am thinking in next scenario:

Let's suppose we are writing SRS of a product, and probably I want to give them a number, for example SRS-1, SRS-2, ....

how about creating an auto increment label so for example we can create an attribute which must ends with counter:

:srs-identification-counter: 1

and then each time this attribute is used, value is incremented by one, so for example:

== Fluidic System

[cols="1,2" options="header"]
.Fluidic SRS
|===
|SRS
|Description

|SRS-{srs-identification-counter}
|bla bla bla

|SRS-{srs-identification-counter}
|bla bla bla
|===

which will be equivalent to:

[cols="1,2" options="header"]
.Fluidic SRS
|===
|SRS
|Description

|SRS-1
|bla bla bla

|SRS-2
|bla bla bla
|===

Of course there are some problems to resolve, for example what's happen when you include another AsciiDoc file that are already using the same counter, but I think can simplify of having to maintain manually incremental values, or for example defining twice.

WDYT?