"Filippo A. Salustri" <salus...@ryerson.ca> writes:
> It seems to me we're getting into some real design territory here, in
> that it comes down to a question of a "proper" outline.
> I agree that a proper outline is such that Marcel's format is "improper."
> I agree that org follows the proper outline, was designed to suit it,
> and therefore it isn't surprising that it's not trivially easy to
> support Marcel's format too.
>
> I would humbly suggest that the real question is a design / use case
> question. Is it reasonable to expect authors to stick to proper
> outline format throughout their drafting process? If it is, then org
> is fine as is. If it isn't, then there's a problem.
>
> /How/ it's implemented, or worked around, as the case may be, is,
> imho, irrelevant in the long term (tho certainly useful in the short).
>
> Cheers.
> Fil
>
I think org-mode should aim to be flexible enough to accomodate all
writers, writing tasks, and writing styles. Maybe for this particular
issue it would be enough to give org-mode an explicit way to "close" a
heading--an Org-wide equivalent to \end{section} in LaTeX, say. Of
course it would have to be as pithy and unobtrusive as the rest of
org-mode syntax...I'm sure it's possible (because with Elisp practically
everything is possible), but out of my depth. :)
--
William Gardella
J.D. Candidate
Class of 2011, University of Pittsburgh School of Law
