[duxhelp] Re: handing of numbered lists in TeX/LaTeX documents
- From: "David Spybey" <dspybey@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Tue, 2 May 2006 08:19:35 +0100
Peter
Is the improved numbering of lists likely to help with the British problem
where roman numerals are used but not given letter signs. I am thinking of
(i) which has a letter sign
(ii) which comes out without one
(iii) which comes out without a letter sign
I know I have brought this up before, most recently on 21st March this year,
but I cannot track a response apart from the one where you asked me if I was
referring to British code.
David
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From: duxhelp-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:duxhelp-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Peter Sullivan
Sent: 01 May 2006 21:00
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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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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
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> [mailto:duxhelp-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Peter Sullivan
> Sent: Saturday, April 29, 2006 11:29 AM
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> 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
>
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> Sent: Friday, April 28, 2006 10:58 PM
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> 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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