Re[2]: A proposal for the sectioning commands--addendum

[Giuseppe Bilotta <bourbaki@bigfoot.com>]

Friday, June 21, 2002 John Culleton wrote:

>> Hans, do you think you can implement this easily?
JC> Addendum to my previous comments:

JC> I use folding in GVim by putting a ``stop'' command just before each 
JC> ``start'' commnad. this is clumsy but it is easier to remember than what 
JC> Bilotti proposes. Better would be an editor that did this kind of controlling
JC> automatically. Here is a sample of what I must do currently:

JC> %--1
JC> \chapter{The Best of Breed Software Packages}
JC> %++1
JC> %--2
JC> \section{Operating Systems}
JC> %++2
JC> %--3
JC> \subsection{Linux}
JC> %++3

JC> The above is not elegant but with the proper setup in .vimrc it works.

Since you can put up a Vim folding file that recognizes \start ...
\stop pair (and it would work with ANY \start ... \stop pair), you
can see how it helps. But of course the ability to fold easily is
just one (and the least important) of the pluses that come from
structured sectioning ..

JC> Incidentally I use Context not because it is ``structured'' but because it
JC> implements features not found in other incarnations of TeX, like hanging
JC> punctuation and sidebars.

So do I. But I also want to take advantage as much as possible of
the capabilities offered by the structure.

-- 
Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta