Re: [NTG-context] Are nested sections possible?

On 3/15/2016 8:09 PM, Alan BRASLAU wrote:

On Tue, 15 Mar 2016 18:10:27 +0100 "Thomas A. Schmitz" wrote:

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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.

on the other hand, when you look at a piece of coded document you no longer know if you're in an important chapter or unimportant subsubsubsubsubsubsection so, in the end it all boils down to circumstances and usage which is why we have several methods

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!).

ha, well, if i remember right this nested anonymous sectioning was added on your request .. so it is now one of those orphaned features anyway, i tend to replace \chapter{foo} by \startchapter[title=foo] \stopchapter but at a much lower level keep using \subsubsection and alike (also because then with chapters one can more conveniently set other properties) Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------