Hi Will,
I believe you can already use \begin{section} and \begin{subsection} (And corresponding \end things), which might take you partly there without any changes, I think we support those variants. Changing the bundle to support something which is not standard, bound to be confusing (for instance should the top level correspond to a \section or a \chapter? or a \part?) and not offering much enhanced functionality is not something I look forward to.
There is of course a "Show outline" command, not sure how much that serves your needs. The safe moving of code around is the tricky part, if that's what you were hoping for. What exactly do you mean by "missing the nice outlining features"? In any case, I think it's preferable to make the current system work, instead of inventing a new system.
Haris Skiadas Department of Mathematics and Computer Science Hanover College
On May 26, 2008, at 2:17 AM, Will Robertson wrote:
Hi,
I've been playing around recently with developing a different technique for sectioning in LaTeX; put simply, instead of writing
\section{} ... \subsection{} ... \subsection{} ... \subsubsection{} ...
you write
\begin{sect}{} ... \begin{sect}{} ... \end{sect} \begin{sect}{} ... \begin{sect}{} ... \end{sect} \end{sect} \end{sect}
I'm not 100% convinced that this is an easier way to write than LaTeX's absolute method as opposed to this sort of relative one, but I'm willing to give it a try for my thesis to see how it works out.
The advantages are that folding is more easily supported :) and that it's much easier to move sections around without having to search/replace all of the \(sub){0,2}section commands.
But here's the thing...I know it would take you guys orders of magnitude less time than it would take me to adjust the LaTeX bundle to integrate this structure into it. (Starred sections look like \begin{sect*}{} and optional ToC section titles are with \begin {sect}[toctitle]{...}.)
All I'm really missing is the nice outlining features. Is this an easy change to make to the bundle?
Many thanks, Will Robertson