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[Enrique Perez-Terron <address@hidden>]

On Mon, 2008-10-13 at 10:37 +0200, Benno Dielmann wrote:
> On Saturday 11 October 2008 05:25:54 Enrique Perez-Terron wrote:
> | What still remains a disadvantage with all this is that unless one
> | switches to source view, the macro calls are hidden, and there is
> | nothing in the user interface that interacts with the macros.  If you
> | forget the label you used, or forget that you put in the
> | list-restore-state, and later return to the document,  you will be
> | mystified.
> 
> That's what flags are for... Look:
> 
>  <assign|list-save-state|\
>     <macro|label|\
>        <flag|list-save-state|orange>\
>        <quasi|\
>           <assign|<unquote|<arg|label>>|\
>               <value|item-nr>\
>           >>>>
>  <assign|list-restore-state|\
>     <macro|label|\
>        <flag|list-restore-state|orange>\
>        <assign|item-nr|\
>            <value|<arg|label>>\
>        >>>
> 
> Now you get flags displayed where you entered the macros (assuming you 
> switched them on in Document->View->Informative Flags)

Thanks, I was not aware of this.

> I chose orange as flag color; you can choose any other color. 
> 
> But thanks a lot for these macros. I never really understood these "quote", 
> "unquote", "quasiquote" thingies... Is there a documentation about these?

Try Help->Manual->Writing your own styles, and scroll down to section
3.4 Evaluation control. 

Also look in Help->Reference Manual->Stylesheet language, section 4.
Evaluation control primitives.

Regards
Enrique