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...tents: yes 2. Have a special xml tag with optional alternative text inside, e.g. <contents> 1. First thingy 2. Second thingy 3. Other stuff </contents> 3. Detect that a set of list items matches the first few headers. E.g. if the document has headers # Monkeys ## Chimps ## Humans ## Proboscis monkeys ## Other monkeys ## Do Lemur's count? Then a list that ran: 1. Monkeys 1. Chimps 2. Humans Would be detected as the start of a contents list, and the other entries would automatically be added to it. This seems the nicest approach in some respects, but also the one likely to ca...

...available on the web (see Google), e.g. at http://www.physics.ohio-state.edu/~dws/grouplinks/floating_point_math.pdf Though over the years I've many times been there, done that, got bitten by the bugs, and bought the T-shirt [I have one from Florida depicting a large and joyful mosquito with proboscis dripping with blood] I still found this a revealing read, written in a style well-suited to general users of numerical computer languages. So I'm writing to bring it to the notice of R users who may not have come across it. (And also, maybe, to pre-empt that question that some of you may have...