> The computer is smart enough to know that a > \chapter head terminates all previous subordinate levels. And the > person reading the code is smart enough too. I see no virtue in this > proposal.
Consider a section which contains some content, followed by a subsection, followed by more content in the same section. I would tend to set this with vertical space indicating the end of the subsection. Without an explicit \stop the additional content of the section could belong either to the section or the subsection. For me it isn't a problem, because I master in XML and create ConTeXt code from the XML using OmniMark. But for those using ConTeXt as a master format it must be quite important. dh
