[duxhelp] Re: handing of numbered lists in TeX/LaTeX documents
- From: "Joanmarie Diggs" <joanmarie.diggs@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <duxhelp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 29 Apr 2006 12:35:51 -0400
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
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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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