Re: Re: Continuation of main section text after subsections ?

["Thomas S. Dye" <tsd@tsdye.com>]

On Mar 27, 2011, at 6:45 AM, Nick Dokos wrote:

> Marcel van der Boom <marcel@hsdev.com> wrote:
>
>> When writing I tend to think about org headings as 'handles' to a
>> logical block of information, including its child blocks.  
>> Apparently my
>> analogy clashes with what org-mode wants. I had my hopes on a
>> customization option.
>>
>> Is there a strong reason this could not work as an option in org- 
>> mode?
>>
>
> I'm sure that patches would be welcome, but I think you'd find it
> difficult to specify, let alone implement. In particular, how do you
> tell where the section 1.1.1 stuff ends and the section 1 stuff begins
> again? And would the extra stuff be part of section 1 or (sub)section
> 1.1? Why? And don't forget this is all just text, so any markup has to
> be minimal, intuitive and as unobtrusive as possible.
>
> The devil is in the details.
>
> Nick

I don't think the limitation is Org-mode's.  Marcel's structure simply  
deviates from proper outline structure.   His situation is typically  
handled in linear text with footnotes, and in non-linear text with  
links, both of which Org-mode implements without issue.

Tom