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From: Alan BRASLAU <alan.braslau@cea.fr>
To: "Thomas A. Schmitz" <thomas.schmitz@uni-bonn.de>
Cc: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Are nested sections possible?
Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2016 13:09:27 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160315130927.2b9a0cbe@cea.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <56E84203.40600@uni-bonn.de>

On Tue, 15 Mar 2016 18:10:27 +0100
"Thomas A. Schmitz" <thomas.schmitz@uni-bonn.de> wrote:

> But don't let anyone 
> tell you that explicit names are "antiquated." They make TeX or xml 
> source documents so much more readable! And when you have to retrace 
> five levels of \startsectionlevels because you want to change the 
> structure of your document, you will rue the day you abandoned proper
> names.

When you want to change the structure of your document when using
structure levels, all that you need do is add or subtract a level of
nesting. With named levels, it is easy to create complicated documents
that jump around in level, which would be pretty messy.

What a nightmare it would be to add or subtract a named structure level
in a complicated document.

This being said, I still mostly use named structure levels myself, as
old habits are hard to change (but don't tell Hans this!).

Alan
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  reply	other threads:[~2016-03-15 19:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-03-11  8:08 mica
2016-03-11  8:23 ` josephcanedo
2016-03-11  8:36 ` Pablo Rodriguez
2016-03-11  8:43   ` Mica Semrick
2016-03-12  0:53   ` Alan BRASLAU
2016-03-14  8:05     ` Procházka Lukáš Ing.
2016-03-15 16:54       ` Alan BRASLAU
2016-03-15 17:10         ` Thomas A. Schmitz
2016-03-15 19:09           ` Alan BRASLAU [this message]
2016-03-24 21:11             ` Hans Hagen
2016-03-24 21:08           ` Hans Hagen
2016-03-14  8:52     ` Pablo Rodriguez
2016-05-20  4:39     ` docent.einstein
2016-03-11  9:37 ` Andreas Schneider
2016-03-11  9:43 ` Hans Hagen
2016-03-11 15:42   ` Mica Semrick

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