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Jeremy Gibbons writes:

   Hmm. OK, most of the time there is exactly one corresponding spot. What if
   the piece of text was produced by a macro (eg, I click on the `T' of
   `LaTeX') though---do I want to go to the macro definition, or to the macro
   call? I reckon it should be call here, but if I click on the body of a
   footnote I want to go to the `definition' (somewhere in the argument to
   \footnote) rather than the `call' (the occurrence of the \footnote itself).
   And what happens when I click on a page number or a running header?

For the \LaTeX macro, I'd always want to move to the call, possibly
replacing it with another macro call. Perhaps I wanted it to be a call
to \TeX instead. If I wanted to typeset "LaTeX", but a bit differently
than what comes out of the \LaTeX macro, I would go into the other
window, move to the preamble, define another macro, and replace the
call to \LaTeX with a call to the new macro. This replacement, I could
then make in either of the two windows!

It would be a bit more complicated, though, when you have a macro with
parameters. Do I want another macro or do I want to change (one of)
the parameter(s)? Perhaps, if you click on the text of a footnote, you
should go to the parameter of the \footnote call. Then a button would
move you to the actual "\footnote" string?

Or else, it might be easier to go to the TeX source window! I'm not
trying to *force* the user to *always* use the wysiwyg approach. I
like TeX and I dislike traditional wysiwyg because I can do so much
more with the TeX controll sequences. You all know these advantages of
TeX. What I'm saying is that there might be situations where a wysiwyg
approach is better, and that it would be an improvement to TeX if you
always had the choice!

	/Mats


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