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I kind of hoped that new contenders to LaTeX could ditch the state-based sections (e.g. `\section{Introduction}`) and switch to strictly scoped sections that are properly closed (i.e. section trees).

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HTML is evidence that having to do a closing tag is an amusing non-starter for authored pages. Such that I don't see that flying too well.

The problem with HTML is that you name the tags and can close them anywhere.You could have something like this instead:

  \section{Introduction}{
    .
    .
    .
  }

I get the motivation. I'm not sold on the results. Especially since you will have a ton of machinery around what sections can go in other sections. It really is nicer to not have the brackets.

Sure, but a single pair of parentheses is enough:

[section[Introduction][...]]

Sections in my markup language work like that. I definitely find it a better approach.

https://xidoc.nim.town/commands.html#section

Good point, never thought of that. Indentation would become hellish though.

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