emacs-orgmode@gnu.org archives
 help / color / mirror / code / Atom feed
From: "Thomas S. Dye" <tsd@tsdye.com>
To: nicholas.dokos@hp.com
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Re: Continuation of main section text after subsections ?
Date: Sun, 27 Mar 2011 07:00:03 -1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1B9E8A57-E4C2-491D-8FA6-21A08AD1B172@tsdye.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20408.1301244331@alphaville.dokosmarshall.org>


On Mar 27, 2011, at 6:45 AM, Nick Dokos wrote:

> Marcel van der Boom <marcel@hsdev.com> wrote:
>
>> When writing I tend to think about org headings as 'handles' to a
>> logical block of information, including its child blocks.  
>> Apparently my
>> analogy clashes with what org-mode wants. I had my hopes on a
>> customization option.
>>
>> Is there a strong reason this could not work as an option in org- 
>> mode?
>>
>
> I'm sure that patches would be welcome, but I think you'd find it
> difficult to specify, let alone implement. In particular, how do you
> tell where the section 1.1.1 stuff ends and the section 1 stuff begins
> again? And would the extra stuff be part of section 1 or (sub)section
> 1.1? Why? And don't forget this is all just text, so any markup has to
> be minimal, intuitive and as unobtrusive as possible.
>
> The devil is in the details.
>
> Nick

I don't think the limitation is Org-mode's.  Marcel's structure simply  
deviates from proper outline structure.   His situation is typically  
handled in linear text with footnotes, and in non-linear text with  
links, both of which Org-mode implements without issue.

Tom

  reply	other threads:[~2011-03-27 17:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-03-27 15:02 Continuation of main section text after subsections ? Marcel van der Boom
2011-03-27 15:37 ` Jambunathan K
2011-03-27 15:52   ` Cian
2011-03-27 16:11     ` Marcel van der Boom
2011-03-27 16:34       ` William Gardella
2011-03-27 16:45       ` Nick Dokos
2011-03-27 17:00         ` Thomas S. Dye [this message]
2011-03-27 16:49       ` Filippo A. Salustri
2011-03-27 17:08         ` Nicolas
2011-03-27 17:10           ` Filippo A. Salustri
2011-03-27 17:02       ` William Gardella
2011-03-27 17:08         ` Filippo A. Salustri
2011-03-27 17:18           ` William Gardella
2011-03-27 17:20             ` Filippo A. Salustri
2011-03-27 20:21             ` Achim Gratz
2011-03-27 21:26               ` William Gardella
2011-03-29 18:59             ` Matt Lundin
2011-03-30  6:26               ` Aankhen
2011-03-28 14:54           ` Marcel van der Boom
2011-03-27 18:24         ` Aankhen
2011-03-27 19:29           ` Samuel Wales
2011-03-27 19:48       ` Cian
2011-03-28  0:00 ` FAQ? (was: Continuation of main section text after subsections ?) Memnon Anon
2011-03-28  8:36   ` Marcel van der Boom
2011-07-02 12:18     ` FAQ? Bastien
2011-03-29 18:54 ` Continuation of main section text after subsections ? Matt Lundin
2011-03-30 10:05   ` Rasmus
2011-03-30 11:06     ` Filippo A. Salustri
2011-03-31  1:41     ` Matt Lundin
2011-03-31  3:25       ` Samuel Wales
2011-03-31  3:26         ` Samuel Wales
2011-03-31  3:31         ` Samuel Wales
2011-03-31 20:04         ` Matt Lundin
2011-03-31 22:14           ` Aankhen
2011-03-30 18:26 ` Mark Elston

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

  List information: https://www.orgmode.org/

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=1B9E8A57-E4C2-491D-8FA6-21A08AD1B172@tsdye.com \
    --to=tsd@tsdye.com \
    --cc=emacs-orgmode@gnu.org \
    --cc=nicholas.dokos@hp.com \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
Code repositories for project(s) associated with this public inbox

	https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs/org-mode.git

This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for read-only IMAP folder(s) and NNTP newsgroup(s).