[duxhelp] Re: handing of numbered lists in TeX/LaTeX documents
- From: "Peter Sullivan" <peter@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <duxhelp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 29 Apr 2006 12:47:05 -0400
Joanie,
Thanks for the samples.
Release will be late May at best, as we don't yet have a release candidate.
June is more likely. I cannot let things slip beyond that, though.
- peter
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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
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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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