On Fri, Dec 04, 1998 at 05:33:32PM +0100, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:
>
> In fact, the change has been made because, under reasonable
> conditions, paragraphs and subparagraphs are not numbered. However,
> now that I think a bit more about it, they will be numbered provided
> that secnumdepth is high enough. So maybe the right thing to do is to
> re-introduce them in stdstarsections.inc, even though they do not seem
> to make sense at first sight.
>
> So, do we want to be 'reasonable' or 'correct'? Are there many people
> who would like to have numbered (sub)paragraphs (i.e. use more than 6
> levels of numbering)?
I'm sure you're familiar with my bias now, but I'd rather be correct. If LaTeX
allows it, and it's not hard to let LyX allow it, then why *not* allow it? I
have said "why would someone do that" and not bothered to code something into
reLyX, only to have it come back to haunt me later. LaTeX is used for tons of
different applications, and it's hard for one person to think up all of the
possible uses for it.
The only reason I can think of for not having subparagraph* is that it makes
the menu of layouts one line shorter. While I agree that it's nice to have a
shorter menu (for convenience as well as making it less intimidating for
newbies, perhaps) I don't think that's a good enough reason.
In any case, 1.1 is going to get rid of the separate * layouts (isn't it?)
-Amir
