On Sat, Feb 22, 2020 at 06:01:55AM -0600, Eric Blake wrote: > Thanks for the report. Both appendices are generated via verbatim inclusion > of pre-existing .texi files from upstream, and a quick scan of both > documents shows that they use '@enumerate 0' prior to the headings in > question. The html rendering is generated with 'makeinfo'. > > The effect that you are seeing is not limited to m4; I see the same 1-based > html rendering in the coreutils manual, for example: > https://www.gnu.org/savannah-checkouts/gnu/coreutils/manual/coreutils.html#GNU-Free-Documentation-License > shows "1. PREAMBLE", but > info coreutils 'GNU Free Documentation License' > shows "0. PREAMBLE" > > So this smells like a makeinfo bug, in that it is unable to properly render > @enumerate 0 into something that adjusts the html rendering. But it also > looks like a bug that was fixed recently, because when I do 'make -C doc > html' locally with texinfo 6.6 installed (on Fedora 31), the html output is > different: the online page used <ol>, but my local page used <ol start="0">. > So all that really remains is to release m4 1.4.19 with updated gnulib > dependencies (needed anyways), where the release process will trigger a > rebuild of the web pages with newer makeinfo, such that the resulting web > page will then have correct numbering.
Yes, this bug was fixed quite some time ago.
