[TxMt] Re: Code folding in LaTeX

[René Schwaiger]

Hi Ross,

> On 04 May 2015, at 15:57 , Ross Ahmed <rossahmed at googlemail.com> wrote:
> 
> Code folding in LaTeX is not doing what I expect. Lets say I have this in my .tex file:
> 
> \begin{document}
> \section{}
> Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit.
> \subsection{}
> Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit.
> \end{document}
> 
> Option + Command + 0 does as expected:
> 
> \begin{document}…\end{document}
> 
> Option + Command + 1 does exactly the same: 
> 
> \begin{document}…\end{document}
> 
> But what I expected was
> 
> \begin{document}
> \section{}…
> \end{document}
> 
> Option + Command + 2 does as expected:
> 
> \begin{document}
> \section{}…
> \subsection{}…
> \end{document}
> 
> So, I expected: 
> \begin{document} to be all levels
> \section{} to be level 1
> \subsection{} to be level 2
> 
> Is there a way of setting cold folding to do what I expected?

I don't know if it is currently possible to assign a level to a certain marker — e.g. \section{} — without a corresponding end marker. I would guess it is not. Markdown sections for example show the same behaviour — `⌥⌘1` collapses all of them, regardless of their level.

You can work around this issue by using sectioning environments — instead of sectioning commands. For your document that would mean that you would write something like:

    \documentclass{article}

    \begin{document}

    \begin{section}{Section}
    Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit.
    
    \begin{subsection}{Subsection}
    Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit.

    \end{subsection}
    \end{section}
    \end{document}

Folding in this document should work as you expect.

> Ross Ahmed
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Kind regards,
  René