On May 10, 2007, at 1:50 PM, Charilaos Skiadas wrote:
I live in the latex bundle, but this feature request may be relevant to others. I would like to be able to move blocks of text in the latex file by simply moving corresponding headers in the "Go to Symbol" sidebar. This would replace my need to use OminOutliner to organize material. (There seems to be no satisfactory way to port a Latex file from TextMate into OmniOutliner without a great deal of hand work.)
That's an interesting idea. Don't about about in general, but we might be able to have something like this in place with a custom command using a custom nib with a tree structure, where it presents the various sectioning items and you can then move them around. Once you are done, the command then rearranges the text and replaces the entire contents of the current document with the new contents. I would be very hesitant about making it work across multiple files, but within a single file it shouldn't be too hard to do. Such a command would of course have to work under the assumption that, once it encounters a \section{} command, then everything until the next \section{} command is part of this section.
I would be delighted to see this working in a single file.
Yes, you do often want \refs to appear before \labels, such as in an introduction, but it would be nice to double check each of these, especially when proving theorems using lemmas spread throughout a book, say.