From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/8325 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Giuseppe Bilotta Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re[2]: A proposal for the sectioning commands--addendum Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2002 23:17:57 +0200 Sender: owner-ntg-context@let.uu.nl Message-ID: <271821248.20020621231757@bigfoot.com> References: <1809370081.20020621154616@bigfoot.com> <200206211201.27913.john@wexfordpress.com> Reply-To: Giuseppe Bilotta NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035398738 26618 80.91.224.250 (23 Oct 2002 18:45:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 18:45:38 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ntg-context@ntg.nl Original-To: John Culleton In-Reply-To: <200206211201.27913.john@wexfordpress.com> Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:8325 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:8325 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