Moving to non-Word formats [long]

[Mike Marchywka]

On Tue, Jun 16, 2020 at 12:33:41AM +0100, Peter Flynn wrote:
> 
> On 15/06/2020 23:36, Mike Marchywka wrote:
> [...]
> > What exactly is "outline mode?" I was working on a latex system to
> > expand and contract various text blocks because often I want an ad
> > hoc "outline" to bring say section headings onto the same page with a
> > bunch of icons representing logical blocks like paragraphs.
> 
> Most LaTeX and XML editors display a sidebar
> with a kind of abbreviated ToC which can be
> clicked to navigate the document. Actually
> typesetting something like it instead of the
> document text is a job for a package, and
> neither of the two on CTAN (outline and
> outlines) do that at all.
> 
> > Although "pages" don't really have a meaning on computers either
> > really. I got an almost proof of concept in evince (although the
> > mouse offset from the text location was not quite right for the dvi
> > display IIRC). I played with it a little, thought it had potential
> > and then dropped it.
> 
> I just played with a few ideas but it needs more
> time, and I need more information about some of
> TeX's internals that I don't have on hand.

IIRC I just defined some specials in latex and modified the evince
dvi interpreter although I'm having a hard
time finding a quick example to post now.

> 
> > Most of these things- latex too- don't seem to think of interactive
> > documents but stick with static page images.
> 
> Yep. That's what they were designed for. But the
> new stuff, including LuaLaTeX, the LaTeX3
> project, and a bunch of new processors, and
> whatever the NTS is up to, are doing interesting
> things.
> 
> P
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