Re: Availability of sectioning commands in menu

From: David Kastrup <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Availability of sectioning commands in menu
Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2005 09:51:41 +0100

> Ralf Angeli <[email protected]> writes:
> 
> > In course of fixing the menu for sectioning commands (it does not
> > work correctly across files with different document classes and does
> > not get updated if new sectioning commands become available) I found
> > an oddity concerning the available commands.  In none of the
> > supported document classes it is possible to use \part via the menu.
> > In style/book.el, for example, we can find
> >
> > (setq LaTeX-largest-level (LaTeX-section-level "chapter"))
> >
> > Does anybody understand the rationale here?
> >
> > Personally I'd use "part" instead of "chapter" (and in the style
> > files for other such document classes as well).  The logic of having
> > a largest level is flawed anyway because \part can be used even in
> > an article class, but changing the respective definitions in the
> > book- and report-like classes should improve the situation at least
> > a bit.
> 
> I think \part should be out of the level comparison system altogether.

I think so, too.

Besides, I can't see `part' in the printed out documents like
TeXBook, LaTeX Graphics Companion, Programming Perl, The C
Programming Language (K&R), and PostScript Reference Manual
(from my library ;).

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