Depth in/decrease used as equivalent to outline in/out

Jean-Marc Lasgouttes lasgouttes at lyx.org
Tue Feb 1 14:33:49 UTC 2022


Le 01/02/2022 à 15:27, José Abílio Matos a écrit :
> I was surprised by it. I was expecting for Tab to have a local scope. It was
> surprising to me that it affected all the sections at the same level below
> that paragraph. I was expecting a behavior similar to what it happens for
> lists and enumerations.

Note that shift-tab for depth does not always have a local scope either, 
since it may change the depth of nested sub elements.

> The current behavior is also surprising in the sense that, at least in the
> examples I tested, Shift-Tab works by promoting a (sub*)section but Tab does
> not demotes it (at least here it is consistent with listing and enumerations).
> 
> Also as it is if we have:
> 
> 1. A
> 2. B
> 2.1 C
> 2.2 D
> 
> And press Shift-Tab in 2. we get:
> 
> 1. A
> 2. B
> 3. C
> 4. D
> 
> My expectation was for this to become a no-op since it is not possible to
> promote 2. B anymore.
> 
> Is this the feedback you are expecting?

This is interesting in terms of brokenness of outline-* functions. This 
would an argument for exposing them separately (they do have their own 
shortcuts) and merging this with depth stuff yet.

JMarc


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