Re: [O] Frontmatter / Text before first headline

2012-02-01 Thread Achim Gratz
Jambunathan K writes: > I have trouble understanding what the real purpose of the "text before > the first headline" is. "When I use a word, it means just what I choose it to mean -- neither more nor less." -- Humpty Dumpty, "Through the Looking Glass and what Alice found there" > It looks to m

Re: [O] Frontmatter / Text before first headline

2012-02-01 Thread Nicolas Goaziou
Hello, Jambunathan K writes: > I have trouble understanding what the real purpose of the "text before > the first headline" is. It looks to me more like a placeholder for > capturing the "Frontmatter" [1]. If you're talking about the first section in the parse tree, the e-ascii back-end makes u

[O] Frontmatter / Text before first headline

2012-01-31 Thread Jambunathan K
> that is every element between the beginning of the parsed area and its > first headline. I have trouble understanding what the real purpose of the "text before the first headline" is. It looks to me more like a placeholder for capturing the "Frontmatter" [1]. I have also trouble understanding