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Re: section continuation
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tomas |
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Re: section continuation |
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Thu, 29 Dec 2022 09:57:22 +0100 |
On Thu, Dec 29, 2022 at 05:01:33PM +1100, Tim Cross wrote:
>
> <tomas@tuxteam.de> writes:
>
> > As far as I am concerned, I don't think the feature is important
> > enough to complexify Org, but (a) I see that there are people who
> > really want it (and offer myself as sparring partner to bounce ideas
> > off) and (b) Org is chock full of features I'd rather not have,
> > but others need badly. Software is like that :-)
> >
>
> I agree. While I can understand it is a feature some users may want, it
> certainly isn't one I'm interested in and I continue to be very
> concerned about the feature growth and increase in complexity I see with
> org. I fear we are losing one of the best features of org - simplicity
> and easy customization for individual needs.
Agreed, so far.
> I find the straight-forward
> nature of a tree structure much simpler to work with than one which will
> be less tree like and more directed graph like.
Strongly disagree.
Both are trees (that's why I prefer to talk about "document model".
It's only so that in Org, only the first child of a section node
can be text, the following must be subsections. In "XML" you just
can intermix subsections and text (actually: any kind of subnodes).
Org is "asymmetric" in this respect: blocks can be mixed freely
with text content (aka paragraphs), sections cannot. But trees
they are all.
> While it is true the
> tree structure found in outline mode does impose some restrictions on
> the document layouts you can use, I think that loss in generality is
> justified by the gain in simplicity and consistency in other processing,
> such as data exports.
I think it is misleading to cast it in terms of "tree" vs "non-tree" and
this may be part of the current confusion's source.
Cheers
[1] "XML" as a shorthand for the unrestricted structure of an XML
document model. Then you can restrict it with DTDs, RelaxNGs
or whatever.
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- section continuation (was: Is the cascading logic of outlines a feature, or a design bug?), abq, 2022/12/27
- Re: section continuation (was: Is the cascading logic of outlines a feature, or a design bug?), tomas, 2022/12/27
- Re: section continuation, abq, 2022/12/27
- Re: section continuation, tomas, 2022/12/27
- Re: section continuation, abq, 2022/12/27
- Re: section continuation, Ihor Radchenko, 2022/12/28
- Re: section continuation, tomas, 2022/12/28
- Re: section continuation, Tim Cross, 2022/12/29
- Re: section continuation,
tomas <=
- Re: section continuation, Heinz Tuechler, 2022/12/29
- Re: section continuation, tomas, 2022/12/29
- Re: section continuation, Greg Minshall, 2022/12/31
- Re: section continuation, Jean Louis, 2022/12/29
- Re: section continuation, Ihor Radchenko, 2022/12/29
- Re: section continuation, Jean Louis, 2022/12/29
- Re: section continuation, Ihor Radchenko, 2022/12/31
- Re: section continuation, tomas, 2022/12/31
- Re: section continuation, Jean Louis, 2022/12/29
- Re: section continuation, Max Nikulin, 2022/12/29