From: Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net>
To: Greg Minshall <minshall@umich.edu>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Is the cascading logic of outlines a feature, or a design bug?
Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2022 09:13:57 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87cz8399gq.fsf@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <565822.1672217116@archlinux>
Greg Minshall <minshall@umich.edu> writes:
>> But also semantically I would say it is a feature. Have you ever seen
>> a book, longer web page, or even article (with multiple sections) that
>> tries to close one section and continue any previous sibling or its
>> parent?
>
> one sometimes see "sub-sections" indented from the main flow. at the
> end of the sub-section, the indentation reverts to that of the main
> flow. in the case of one level, this works fairly well (the case where
> the end of the sub-section corresponds to the end of a "physical" page
> is one place it works less well).
>
> also, one *could* consider "boxes" (e.g., in textbooks) something like
> this, though they tend to exist outside the main flow.
That's better reflected by inlinetasks. Any kind of long text being
indented or boxed will not be readable. Nesting is also questionable.
--
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-12-28 9:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-12-26 6:47 Is the cascading logic of outlines a feature, or a design bug? abq
2022-12-26 7:51 ` tomas
2022-12-26 10:12 ` Ihor Radchenko
2022-12-26 17:23 ` abq
2022-12-26 17:32 ` tomas
2022-12-26 17:36 ` Ihor Radchenko
2022-12-26 18:37 ` tomas
2022-12-27 7:21 ` Marcin Borkowski
2022-12-27 9:00 ` tomas
2022-12-28 6:40 ` Marcin Borkowski
2022-12-28 7:28 ` Heinz Tuechler
2022-12-28 9:29 ` tomas
2022-12-26 12:38 ` Max Nikulin
2022-12-26 17:03 ` abq
2022-12-27 16:02 ` Max Nikulin
2022-12-28 1:52 ` Samuel Wales
2022-12-28 7:14 ` Stefan Nobis
2022-12-28 7:21 ` Samuel Wales
2022-12-28 8:45 ` Greg Minshall
2022-12-28 9:13 ` Ihor Radchenko [this message]
2022-12-28 9:34 ` Greg Minshall
2022-12-28 9:34 ` tomas
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