Re: Is the cascading logic of outlines a feature, or a design bug?

[Ihor Radchenko]

Greg Minshall <minshall@umich.edu> writes:

>> But also semantically I would say it is a feature. Have you ever seen
>> a book, longer web page, or even article (with multiple sections) that
>> tries to close one section and continue any previous sibling or its
>> parent?
>
> one sometimes see "sub-sections" indented from the main flow.  at the
> end of the sub-section, the indentation reverts to that of the main
> flow.  in the case of one level, this works fairly well (the case where
> the end of the sub-section corresponds to the end of a "physical" page
> is one place it works less well).
>
> also, one *could* consider "boxes" (e.g., in textbooks) something like
> this, though they tend to exist outside the main flow.

That's better reflected by inlinetasks. Any kind of long text being
indented or boxed will not be readable. Nesting is also questionable.

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