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Re: multilevel lists
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Ludovic Courtès |
Subject: |
Re: multilevel lists |
Date: |
Tue, 01 Mar 2005 17:23:44 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.1007 (Gnus v5.10.7) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) |
"Nick Kostirya" <address@hidden> writes:
> So sorry. Is there an analogue of the MS Word files available so that one
> could model multi-level list numeration?
What do you mean by "MS Word files"? Multi-level list numbering could
certainly be implemented in Lout but I'm not skilled enough to tell you
how this could be done.
> And apply mathematical manipulations?
> For example, create a field to bring out teh result of date calculating by
> adding 36 hours to the bookmarked date.
Lout (the language) is not a general purpose language and probably lacks
quite a number of primitives or APIs to really program things like those
you describe, or other things like fetching data from a database,
processing the name of all the authors of all bibliography entries,
things of that sort. For this kind of things, I personally advocate
Skribe which builds on a full-blown programming language (Scheme):
http://www-sop.inria.fr/mimosa/fp/Skribe/ .
On the other hand, if you look for instance at the "Graphs" chapter of
the manual, you'll see that a number of mathematical functions may be
used in this context. But those functions are actually provided by the
back-end language, namely PostScript.
Thanks,
Ludovic.
Re: multilevel lists, Jeff Kingston, 2005/03/02