That sounds very interesting, but I'm not sure I'd want it in Asciidoctor, or actually have it be something that comes out of the box. I'd much rather see this as something you could do with a macro. I can certainly see the need in macros containing some sort of state.

On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 9:48 AM, asotobu [via Asciidoctor :: Discussion] <[hidden email]> wrote:

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?

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