On Sunday, April 6, 2025 at 5:41:51 AM UTC-4 Edward K. Ream wrote:

- @comment, @delims, @encoding, @pagewidth and @tabwidth directives should 
only appear *only *in @<file> nodes.


I strongly object to this one. I write files all the time that use @c and 
@pagewidth directives  even though they are not @files. Usually I expect to 
execute them using CTRL-b. Sometimes they are text files that use 
@pagewidth to help with readability. Sometimes I copy an @file to make 
changes and disable the original version by turning it into an @@file.

Sometimes I search for an old outline, maybe several years old, that has 
these now-forbidden directives in the wrong places. I'm not going to 
remember to check if the outline violates the new rules and then have to 
figure out how to rescue everything. I will just be thinking about the one 
@file I am interesting. If I make a change and save the outline, I don't 
want all the other @files to suddenly change or become unwritable.

Perhaps you could share the new requirements with us and we could have a 
discussion about them.

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