[OS X TeX] Would you believe that?
Ross Moore
ross at maths.mq.edu.au
Fri Jun 25 11:31:29 EDT 2004
Hi Jérôme,
On 25/06/2004, at 11:35 PM, Jérôme Laurens wrote:
> I've just been asked by someone who is successfully using LaTeX for
> more than ten years now.
> In fact, he was just looking for the \chapter command...
> While explaining him the \chapter syntax, I discovered that he was
> using \begin{section} instead of \section, \begin{subsection} instead
> of \subsection, ...
Well, that's not actually wrong --- just perhaps a little
more cumbersome than necessary.
This is because the expansion of \begin{section} ends with
a call to \section .
So long as he is using
\begin{section}{<Title of the section>}
then all should work OK, except ...
... there will be an extra level of \begingroup
enclosing the material between the
\begin{section}....\end{section},
which has the effect of scoping any \newcommand
or \def, etc. made within this block of material.
But that's not necessarily bad either.
Was he having any noticeable difficulties ?
An *advantage* of using \begin{section}....\end{section}
is that it gives you a hook \endsection at the end
of each section, where you can perform extra processing,
such as references or end-notes specific to each section
of a long document.
I could well imagine some book or journal classes
wanting you to work this way.
Cheers
Ross
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