This is the third revision of a post about selective headline numbering in Org mode. On its own, Org mode can either number all headlines, or none. For scientific writing, this is a non-starter. In a scientific paper, the abstract should not be numbered, the main body should be numbered, and appendices should not be numbered. In LaTeX, this is easy to do: \section{} creates a numbered headline, while \section*{} creates an unnumbered section. Org mode does not have any facility to control thi...
