Jean-Marc Lasgouttes writes:
[...]
> Then we would need a more complicated approach with explicit insertion
> of groups.
>
> Jose> Even with the present latex implementation you could run into
> Jose> problems, related with maketitle stuff. If you insert between
> Jose> your title layouts a latex layout with a single % (latex
> Jose> comment) the maketitle scheme breaks completly as it isn't
> Jose> supposed to have other layouts in the title.
>
> In LaTeX, you are not supposed either to introduce things between
> \title{} and \author{}.
But it is legal to insert a line only with comments.
% If I knew this work was so hard I would not started it ;-)
And know this fails.
> Jose> I still think that this is a matter of visual display, the
> Jose> plain view of the documents has some limitations, and this is
> Jose> one of them.
>
> We could use frames with the name of the group around the
> paragraphs. What I'd like to see is a visual cue that show up only
> when the cursor is in the paragraph. Therefore you can see what is the
> extent of the object you are in. For example, we could have a vertical
> colored bar on the left of the current paragraph. In this case
> |Here is some text
> | E=mc2
> |and this was a formula
> shows that you entered your displayed math formula correctly, while
> |Here is some text
> | E=mc2
> and this was a formula
> shows that you added wrongly a carriage return after the formula. The
> idea is a bit sketchy right now, but I'm sure we could show a lot of
> structure this way (environment depth...).
Yep. You're getting the picture. :-)
> JMarc
