Hi Tong, The setext <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Setext> title are hostile > to syntax highlighting, and cause all kinds of other inconveniences. E.g., >
Depends on your editor, and anyway who uses syntax highlighting ;) > - It takes 0.2 seconds for me to tell what level of single line title is; > whereas I'd scratch my head very hard on seeing the settext titles and > trying to identify them. > And I'm the other way, I guess its what we each are used to :) > - Moreover, I'm an perfectionist, if I'm to use the settext titles, I'll > be obsessed to make the underline the same width as the title, which I > would hate to do but feel obligated. > Well, actually you *are* obligated, since they have to be within 2 characters to be recognised. > That's the foremost reason I hate them. Furthermore, if none-mono fonts > are used for title syntax highlighting, then it'd be next to impossible to > make them line up perfectly. > Now the non-monospaced fonts argument is the first one that actually makes sense, yes it would be virtually impossible. For me I am usually documenting code, so my editor is usually set to mono anyway (have you ever tried to do code indenting with non-mono fonts :) and I only speak ASCII so I don't have problems with wide characters. > That's going to drive me mad. > - Most importantly, single line titles make it extremely easy to > shift title levels up and down, which happens quite often when I want to > "borrow" contents from other places or simply rearranging things. > Yep agree, its easier since most editors can easily be made to globally add or subtract one from the numbers of === Still, while your arguments make sense, I'll stick to what I am used to and you can use what you like, thats the nice thing about flexibility :) Cheers Lex > In comparison, each time that I have to do the same thing in Ms Word, > e.g., changing all header 2 to header 3, I'd curse vigorously how > brain-dead Micro$oft is to make my life harder. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "asciidoc" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/asciidoc?hl=en. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "asciidoc" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/asciidoc?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
