Max Nikulin <maniku...@gmail.com> writes:

> On 05/09/2025 02:53, David Masterson wrote:

>> Could ox-latex add an invisible (or slightly visible?) something
>> after a heading with no text body to get around this?
>
> The challenge is to recruit a volunteer closely familiar with low
> level code of standard and non-standard LaTeX classes who may suggest
> a safe command. Earlier \\ \empty workaround for table cells with
> square brackets broke a LaTeX3 table package and another variant with
> \\[0pt] caused enough user complains. LaTeX is designed to be
> convenient for humans who may quickly fix specific corner cases. For
> markup generators it may be tricky to avoid pitfalls.

Ouch.

>> The use-case here is having written a large document, you want to
>> produce a high-level outline of it to (say) introduce the document to
>> your class professor.  I suppose this is also a problem for someone
>> writing a large document that who has only mostly outlined it so far
>> and wanting to show that to the professor (IOW, visibility is off
>> here).
>
> I think, the professor will be more pleased to read table of contents
> (that is formatted better), but you decided to suppress TOC and to
> create a worse substitute in another way.

Ouch#2 -- I should've thought of that...

Thanks
-- 
David Masterson

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