Jules Bean wrote:

> One of my personal wishlists for LyX is a better intuitive view of nesting
> structure.  I seem to frequently work in highly nested documents, and it's
> not always immediately clear exactly what the 'change environment depth'
> command is doing.
>
> I had some idea in the back of my head where the nesting would be shown as
> tidy little bars in the left margin.  In ugly ascii art, something like
> this maybe
>
> +     My structured Document
> |
> | +   1 Introduction
> | |
> | |   Blah blah blah. In particular, the following:
> | |
> | | + 1) Something
> | | | 2) Something else
> | | + 3) ....
> | +
> |
> | +   2 The main bit.
> | |
> .
> .
> .
>
> You get the idea.

     Very interesting and useful idea.

     For the most exterior bar, is it always for the whole document?  If yes,
maybe there's no need to draw it in order to save  window space and make it
easier to see the structure, esp when there're a lot of levels of
subsections.

     Regards,

     Seak



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