On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 8:49 PM, Bill Meahan <subscribed_lists@meahan.net>wrote:

> I note there are two different ways of handling a chapter:
>
> The traditional \chapter{mytitle}
>
> \startchapter[title=mytitle, ownnumber=N ..]
>   blah
> \stopchapter
>
> Is there any difference or advantage/disadvatage to using one method or
> the other?
>

\start<section>.. \stop<section>: tagged pdf.
See
http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Epub



Also
\startchapter[title=mytitle1]
...
\stopchapter
Foo
\startchapter[title=mytitle2]
...
\stopchapter

From a structural point of view, Foo is outside the chapters


\chapter{mytitle1}
...
Foo
\chapter{mytitle2}
...

From a structural point of view, Foo is inside chapter "mytitle1"


Of course
\startchapter[title=mytitle1]
...
Foo
\stopchapter%
\startchapter[title=mytitle2]
...
\stopchapter

is equivalent to
\chapter{mytitle1}
...
Foo
\chapter{mytitle2}
...



So  \start<section>  \stop<section>  can emulate \<section>
but the converse is not true (at least from the p.o.w. of the structure of
the document:
and anyway you can always write your own macros to change the things as you
like  )

-- 
luigi