Helge Hafting wrote:
> Now, if we had a way of starting the selection
> before the numeral/bullet/section-number but after
> the previous paragraph.  I.e. an extra cursor position.
> Then the user gets a better way of deciding whether
> an enumeration goes inside the box or if we
> just have a boxed item.

Yes, agreed.

> Perhaps this is the real problem, we're lacking a
> cursor position?

Probably.

> Your patch is OK for boxes, as all the weird box cases (try
> boxing two items that are neither first nor last) are
> impossible to get sane in latex anyway. So for boxes, the
> user may ask for something stupid - and gets something silly. OK.
>
> Branches are different though.  It makes sense to
> make a few items conditional, but this does not work.

But it is not possible currently, as you have worked out. So I'd propose to 
get this patch in, which obviously does the right thing, and try to enhance 
the branch handling later. One thing we have to do, obviously, is to make 
branches context sensible.

Agreed?

Jürgen

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