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To me having had a good dose of nroff/troff the format of the section command
would naturally be \section[level]{section caption}. Chapters are NOT a section
to me, but for machine generated output I think that a section level of zero
could be equivalent to \chapter{chapter caption}. The section level should
default to the current level. I think most people would find the above scheme
usable.

If source compatibility with older versions of LaTeX is needed and conversion
disallowed, another verb could be used (\SECTion?). BTW could the current
section command i LaTeX be split into two commands; section and sectiontoc in
order to make convertion easier?

Could LaTeX 3 use a different escape character than backslash (e.g. @ ) and
reserve backslash for compatibility with LaTeX 2.09? Or is @ used in so many
places already as an ordinary character that it could not be replaced by say,
the underscore?

Please bear with me. I'm not a TeXpert, only a pleased user of LaTeX who is
afraid to get lost in subsubsections.


Greetings,

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