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