[duxhelp] Re: handing of numbered lists in TeX/LaTeX documents
- From: "Peter Sullivan" <peter@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <duxhelp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 2 May 2006 21:40:36 -0400
Joanie,
This much can and will be fixed for the next beta. Thanks for the sample.
- Peter
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From: duxhelp-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:duxhelp-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Joanmarie Diggs
Sent: Monday, May 01, 2006 5:39 PM
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Subject: [duxhelp] Re: handing of numbered lists in TeX/LaTeX documents
Hi Peter. That's awesome!! Thanks. From now on, no snippets, just
attachments. :) Speaking of which:
> In particular, I haven't explored whether Scientific Notebook allows
> for variant forms of numbered list (e.g.
> Roman numerals)
See attached. I changed the first two numbers manually through their
"properties". I believe that one could change the default numbering type
automatically through styles. (It *seems* that SN employs some use of style
sheets.) And styles in SN is on my list of things to figure out. So as soon
as I figure them out and can use them to change numbers, I'll send you
another snippet, err I mean attachment. :)
Thanks again.
--Joanie
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> [mailto:duxhelp-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Peter Sullivan
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> Subject: [duxhelp] Re: handing of numbered lists in TeX/LaTeX
> documents
>
> Joanie,
>
> Your sample file confirms the problem you reported earlier.
> I'm glad to have had the sample file, because the problem (for DBT) is
> more complex when there are skipped lines between various lines that
> start with \item.
> Scientific Notebook typically produces such files, but your code
> snippets didn't show things this way.
>
> In any case, I do believe that we'll be able to improve DBT's handling
> of enumerated lists for DBT 10.6. I've just completed a code change
> proposal, which Mike is now reviewing, to do just that. With the code
> change applied, I don't believe that we'll be getting the whole story
> just right. In particular, I haven't explored whether Scientific
> Notebook allows for variant forms of numbered list (e.g.
> Roman numerals), nor have I adapted the code to properly handle
> numbering of a third nested level. But, if these changes are
> important, they should be relatively simple to make. The hard part, I
> believe, is done. And I believe you'll be pleased with the result.
>
> - Peter
>
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> [mailto:duxhelp-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Joanmarie Diggs
> Sent: Saturday, April 29, 2006 12:36 PM
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> Subject: [duxhelp] Re: handing of numbered lists in TeX/LaTeX
> documents
>
> Understood. And thanks for considering it for this release.
>
> I have attached the sort of document I use when trying to figure out
> how things work rather than the sort of document I would actually
> create. I hope it helps! If you want something, uh, more traditional
> let me know. :)
>
> Just out of curiosity (and for the tentative planning of workshops,
> etc.), I remember a target release date of sometime in May. Is that
> still the plan?
>
> Thanks much for everything!
> Joanie
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: duxhelp-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > [mailto:duxhelp-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Peter Sullivan
> > Sent: Saturday, April 29, 2006 11:29 AM
> > To: duxhelp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: [duxhelp] Re: handing of numbered lists in TeX/LaTeX
> > documents
> >
> > Joanie,
> >
> > Feature requests are fine, but less and less likely to be
> taken into
> > account for this release.
> >
> > In this case, what you suggest is feasible. But if you
> have any full
> > SN sample files, even (or perhaps especially) simple ones,
> these would
> > be helpful. I find that code snippets of Latex are good for
> > describing things, but the full file can influence how we
> handle the
> > snippets. So I don't like to get too deeply into problems
> like this
> > without sample files.
> >
> > - Peter
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: duxhelp-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > [mailto:duxhelp-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Joanmarie Diggs
> > Sent: Friday, April 28, 2006 10:58 PM
> > To: duxhelp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: [duxhelp] handing of numbered lists in TeX/LaTeX documents
> >
> > Hi all. This is not new to 10.6 so it's more of a feature
> request and
> > question. Hope no one minds.
> >
> > When I create a document in Scientific Notebook and format
> text to be
> > a
> > Heading1 or Heading2, Duxbury maps my text upon import to
> be an H1. or
> > H2.
> > However, when I format text in Scientific Notebook as a
> numbered list,
> > Duxbury applies the para. style. The same behavior, of
> course, occurs
> > in Word when you use automatic numbering instead of the List Number
> > style. I'd happily use the appropriate style in Scientific
> Notebook,
> > but I'm not convinced there is one. Is there? (that's the question
> > part of this message
> > <smile>)
> >
> > Assuming there's not a style I can choose which will map to
> Duxbury's
> > List.
> > style.... I took a gander at a Scientific Notebook document in Word
> > Pad. As best as I can tell, the conversion seems to be pretty
> > straightforward. For
> > instance:
> >
> > \section{My Heading} in SN becomes <h1.>My Heading</h1.> in DBT.
> > \subsection{Something Else} in SN becomes <h2.>Something
> Else</h2.> in
> > DBT
> >
> > Any place there's a $ in SN, in DBT you get either [ts] or [te]. I
> > assume the first $ on a line is [ts] and the second [te]. When DBT
> > sees \item, it replaces it with a number according to this
> rule: The
> > Nth \item in the document gets an N in front of it. Thus:
> >
> > \item $10+5=$
> > \item $10-5=$
> >
> > results in:
> >
> > <para.>1. [ts]10+5[te]</para.>
> > <para.>2. [ts]10-5[te]</para.>
> >
> > However, it seems that numbered lists begin with
> \begin{enumerate} and
> > end with \end{enumerate}. Is DBT using them or ignoring
> them? Based
> > on the handling of nested lists I'm guessing the latter. But more
> > about that in a moment. A numbered list of two items looks like:
> >
> > \begin{enumerate}
> > \item $10+5=$
> > \item $10-5=$
> > \end{enumerate}
> >
> > So, why not map \begin{enumerate} to <list.>, \end{enumerate} to
> > </list.> and terminate each \item line with [<]? That would make
> > importing and editing numbered SN documents a bit faster.
> Plus, if my
> > guess is correct, this might cause nested lists to be
> handled better.
> > Currently, DBT seems to count each \item without attention to the
> > presence of nested lists. Thus
> >
> > \begin{enumerate}
> > \item $10+5=$
> > \item $10-5=$
> > \begin{enumerate}
> > \item $10\div 5=$
> > \end{enumerate}
> > \end{enumerate}
> >
> > results in
> >
> > <para.>1. [ts]10+5=[te]</para.>
> > <para.>2. [ts]10-5=[te]</para.>
> > <para.>3. [ts]10÷5=[te]</para>
> >
> > But in SN it is:
> >
> > 1. 10+5=
> > 2. 10-5=
> > a. 10÷5=</para>
> >
> > So.... Am I making sense? <smile> And is there any chance of such
> > list handling being added prior to the release of 10.6 or
> is it a more
> > complex problem than I realize?
> >
> > Thanks for your time!
> > Joanie
> >
> >
> >
> >
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