[TxMt] Re: First impressions

[Jenny Harrison]

Certainly this would be risky when writing something like a math  
paper, but outliners all have this feature and are well used and  
appreciated.  As far as testing goes,  it should not be hard to devise  
a "logic tester" to flag each time a \ref for a Lemma, Proposition,  
Theorem, etc.,  occurred before the statement.  That would handle most  
serious rearrangement errors, the kind of tragic mistake that can  
occur at 3 am when very sleepy!     Time Machine gives us all decent  
version control.


On 1/30/08, at 3:29 , Charilaos Skiadas wrote:

>
> On Jan 30, 2008, at 6:18 AM, Jenny Harrison wrote:
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>> Yeh, I am still here.  What a dream come true this would be!   I  
>> don't see how split windows would give a work around for dragging  
>> and dropping sections.
>>
>> -Jenny
>>
>>
>> On 1/30/08, at 2:58 , Jacob Rus wrote:
>>
>>> Charilaos Skiadas wrote:
>>>> 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.
>>>
>>> Yeah.  Jenny (and perhaps others) were talking about this a year  
>>> ago, but it somehow still hasn't happened.  If someone builds such  
>>> a thing, I'll gladly buy them a beer. :)
>
> Part of the reason it still hasn't happened, apart from my almost  
> zero free time to invest in TextMate programming for at least the  
> last 6 months or so, is what seems to me to be the destructiveness  
> of the whole thing. We are moving vast amounts of text around,  
> possibly across multiple files, and it seems to me it would be hard  
> to test whether the right thing happened. This is why I have been  
> hesitant to do something like that (apart from the other reasons  
> preventing me from doing it).
>
> If everyone was using a version control system on all their tex  
> files/projects, I might be less worried about it.
> I envisioned this as an HTML tree of the document, with those little  
> triangles used for expanding or hiding the subtrees like in the  
> bundle editor, and then drag and dropping sections around and  
> tracking the thing via javascript. Should not be too hard once we  
> have a reliable way to read the whole project in and get the overall  
> structure figured out correctly and reliably.