Re: Help wanted: Minor *.doc -> *.tex problem

[Ethan M. <merritt@u.washington.edu>]

On Friday 01 April 2005 01:10 pm, Hans-Bernhard Broeker wrote:
> Ethan Merritt wrote:
> > The current documentation contains section headings nested
> > as deep as level 6.
>
> ... and they're all in "binary datafiles" section.  Which, IMHO,
> suggests an obvious alternative to patching up doc2tex.c: changing the
> structure of that part of the docs to make it less deeply nested.

I found the problem because I was trying to add a new section
elsewhere. Adding additional levels is the only way I know of to
break the interactive help into shorter sections and have it
prompt for additional keywords.  So it's useful in the *.gih form.
In the printed docs it is maybe not so useful.  Levels beyond
4 or 5 may not need a separate TOC number of their own.
But it would be nice to have an index at the back that catches
them. Is that possible?

> > But the conversion to *.tex (doc2tex.c) handles only levels 1-5.
>
> I don't know where you found this limitation --- it actually supports
> 1..6 as it is (6 turns into \paragraph()).  See section() in doc2tex.c,
> line 327.

It did not work in practice.  Juergen's simple change fixed it.

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Ethan A Merritt
Biomolecular Structure Center
University of Washington 98195-7742