Re: Is the cascading logic of outlines a feature, or a design bug?

[Greg Minshall <minshall@umich.edu>]

Stefan,

i am agnostic about this.  but, ...

> 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.

cheers, Greg