[TxMt] First impressions

[Charilaos Skiadas]

On Jan 29, 2008, at 11:00 AM, Pete Becker wrote:

> On Jan 29, 2008, at 10:25 AM, Mark Eli Kalderon wrote:
>>
>> The comments (”% (fold)”, “% section section_name (end)”) function as
>> fold markers thus allowing code folding of sections. This is a  
>> standard
>> part of the LaTeX bundle. Just be sure to insert your sections  
>> with the
>> provided snippets. (It is quicker anyway.)
>>
>
> It's quicker only if you have the underscores package loaded.  
> Otherwise, '_' isn't a valid character in a label, and you have to  
> change all those underscores to something else. <g> I modified the  
> snippets to use '.' instead of '_'.

I've been working for probably close to a decade with LaTeX, using  
labels with underscores in them all the time, and had not even heard  
of this package before! I never had any problem. Is it perhaps  
automatically loaded with some commonly used package?



To Konrad, if your main complaint from the LaTeX bundle is the  
folding, then I would take that to mean we've done an excellent job  
with it ;)
Seriously, it would indeed be nice to be able to fold at sections,  
subsections etc. One could theoretically write a script that scans a  
tex file and adds the necessary folding markers, as if you had indeed  
used the snippets. It should not be too hard to implement I don't think.

Actually what would be even nicer, for me, would be to be able to get  
an outline of your whole project, essentially listing the table of  
contents, regardless of how many files the project is split into, and  
then to be able to simply drag and drop sections around to rearrange  
things. But I am probably just daydreaming.

Personally, I almost never fold, I haven't found it particularly  
useful. What do you guys use folding for? If I want to see an outline  
of the section structure and/or move around, I would use the symbol  
list. But I am probably missing some other extremely important use of  
folding.

For me the most useful commands are the wrapping and inserting  
commands. I couldn't live in a world where those aren't available.

>   -- Pete
>
> Roundhouse Consulting, Ltd.
>

Haris Skiadas
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
Hanover College