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From: <tomas@tuxteam.de>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: section continuation
Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2022 09:57:22 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Y61Wctl7a0X6NChC@tuxteam.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <86358yu47w.fsf@gmail.com>

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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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  reply	other threads:[~2022-12-29  8:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-12-27 13:08 section continuation (was: Is the cascading logic of outlines a feature, or a design bug?) abq
2022-12-27 13:57 ` tomas
2022-12-28  2:22   ` Samuel Wales
2022-12-27 14:15 ` section continuation abq
2022-12-27 15:36   ` tomas
2022-12-27 20:22   ` abq
2022-12-28  5:17     ` Ihor Radchenko
2022-12-28  8:58       ` tomas
2022-12-29  6:01         ` Tim Cross
2022-12-29  8:57           ` tomas [this message]
2022-12-29  9:21             ` Heinz Tuechler
2022-12-29 10:09               ` Jean Louis
2022-12-29 10:42                 ` Ihor Radchenko
2022-12-29 14:00                   ` Jean Louis
2022-12-31 12:16                     ` Ihor Radchenko
2022-12-31 12:26                       ` tomas
2023-01-01 21:29                         ` Tom Gillespie
2022-12-29 10:28               ` tomas
2022-12-31 12:03                 ` Greg Minshall
2022-12-29 10:06             ` Jean Louis
2022-12-29 12:47     ` Max Nikulin
2022-12-28 17:37   ` Timothy
2022-12-28 19:34     ` tomas
2022-12-29 10:21       ` Ihor Radchenko
2022-12-29 10:30         ` tomas
2023-01-01 21:19           ` Marcin Borkowski
2022-12-28 20:01     ` Heinz Tuechler

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