Re: [PATCH] Branch/Note, finally :-)

[Michael Schmitt]

Martin Vermeer wrote:

Note that you would have to store "all possible branches" into the doc
header.
Yes.

Feel free to do the necessary extra work :-)

I expected something like this... but I don't want to steal your hobby 
horse :-)


 <Text field>       <Choice box with options "Disabled", "Margin note",
                     "Plain text", "Footnote">
 Russian             Plain text
 English             Disabled
 Draft               Margin note
 __________          ______
 __________          ______
 ...                 ...
   

For the explicit branches, you would only want the output options
"Disabled" and "Plain text". And that could be handled by radio
buttons.
Why this restriction? Maybe someone wants to print explicit branches 
like "Draft" or "Comments" in the margin. We have all the power to do 
this, so let's use it.

I see that you want to be able to use "named margin notes" (i.e.
output only in draft mode). How useful is this? Remember you can put a 
margin note inside a Draft branch inset. They nest.

I don't want to use "named margin notes", I want to use "named branches 
that are represented as margin notes". Sounds like a purely 
philosophical discussion but it's a another step to separate logic from 
representation.

Thanks for your response.

Michael