This might be the place to mention something that has been in the back
of my mind for a while.
It might be possible to use/support some "style" conventions to make
the shadow files appear
more conventional and less like a Leo file with the sentinels stripped
out.

Primarily I'm talking about comment blocks.  Leo's free form, "let me
take care of line wrapping"
is a great feature, it makes it positively inviting to toss in a
comment, but in the non-Leo world,
people, (and organizations) can structure comments in an almost
obsessive way.  For example,
section comments might take this form:
#===========================================
   Utility Routines
#===========================================

sometimes having styles for various levels of nested/sub sections:
#+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
  Helper Routines
#+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

#--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 Orange Helpers
#--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
and so on.

Function comments often have their own style:

##################################################
  #  func: getSomeOranges
  #   argvs: orchard, plot, type
  #
  #     This function looks at the orchard and ...
  #     written by: trf
  #     updated 08/06/2008, by erm - added error checking
 ###

If we added support for this kind of thing, we would make the shadow
files
look more conventional, plus, we might also be able to use this as
a kind of hinting system that makes some of the headline/body
portioning
that Leo does implicit in the shadow files.

Tom
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