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There is a need to refer to the elements by number. The sequence of the items is critical. The numbering has some independent meaning, for example in a listing of musical tracks on an album. Use a # symbol at the start of a line to generate a numbered list item (excepted as detailed in this section, this works the same as * for bulleted lists ...
The ISO 2145 numbering scheme is defined by the following rules: Only Arabic numerals (1, 2, 3, …) are used. The main divisions are numbered continuously starting from 1. Each main division (first level) can be divided further into subdivisions (second level), which are equally continuously numbered.
Very short sections and subsections clutter an article with headings and inhibit the flow of the prose. Short paragraphs and single sentences generally do not warrant their own subheadings. Headings follow a six-level hierarchy, starting at 1 and ending at 6. The level of the heading is defined by the number of equals signs on each side of the ...
The heading must be on its own line, with one blank line just before it; a blank line just after is optional and ignored (but do not use two blank lines, before or after, because that will add unwanted visible space). For technical reasons, section headings should: Be unique within a page, so that section links lead to the right place.
An alphanumeric outline includes a prefix at the beginning of each topic as a reference aid. The prefix is in the form of Roman numerals for the top level, upper-case letters (in the alphabet of the language being used) for the next level, Arabic numerals for the next level, and then lowercase letters for the next level.
The = through ===== markup are headings for the sections with which they are associated. A single = is styled as the article title and should not be used within an article. Headings are styled through CSS and add an [edit] link. See this section for the relevant CSS. Four or more headings cause a table of contents to be generated automatically.
I also personally prefer to begin with the h2 section heading—when outlining in English (as in preparation for an academic paper or work of fiction), one does not start with an "A" (the equivalent of an h3 heading), but with the Roman numeral "I" (the top level/h2 heading). DocWatson42 05:30, 2 October 2007 (UTC) Agreed.
For cases in which most or all of the definitions are long, multi-paragraph explanations, this format is actually preferable to a template-structured glossary. Multiple definitions are numbered manually, as shown; do not use ordered lists. This glossary type especially sometimes uses non-numeric identifiers with multiple definitions.