Re: A proposal for the sectioning commangs

[John Culleton <john@wexfordpress.com>]

On Friday 21 June 2002 06:37 pm, Duncan Hothersall wrote:
> > The computer is smart enough to know that a
> > \chapter head terminates all previous subordinate levels. And the
> > person reading the code is smart enough too. I see no virtue in this
> > proposal.
>
> Consider a section which contains some content, followed by a subsection,
> followed by more content in the same section. I would tend to set this with
> vertical space indicating the end of the subsection. Without an explicit
> \stop the additional content of the section could belong either to the
> section or the subsection.
>
> For me it isn't a problem, because I master in XML and create ConTeXt code
> from the XML using OmniMark. But for those using ConTeXt as a master format
> it must be quite important.
>
> dh

I have never seen the kind of confuguration you describe. It is possible
I suppose. In general if my \section is subdvided it is completely subdivided.
Or there might be some introductory text right after the \section header and 
before the first \subsection header.  But returning to the same section after
a subsection would be difficult to configure. How would you indicate this
to a reader?  would you put in an additional header line such as 
``Section 22 (continued)''? Or are you using indentation for each level
of subdivision?

Perhaps you could give an example of how it would appear to the reader.
After all the mumbo jumbo one ends up with a document (either paper
or electronic) that some human being has to interpet and make some sense of. 
A section with a subsection embedded in the middle of its text would be 
difficult indeed to interpet.
John Culleton

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