On Fri, Dec 05, 2025 at 09:03:32PM +0000, Werner LEMBERG wrote: > > It would usually be more useful to put the full section number > > (including the chaper number) in the header or footer of a page. If > > it is really useful to be able to use the section number component > > on its own in a header or a footer, we should use a new command for > > this. > > Then please do so – and yes, it is useful for at least two reasons. > > * There might be locales that don't use a full dot to separate the > chapter and section number with a dot in a header (Chinese comes to > my mind).
It's a slightly complicated change to make which I'd rather not do for the sake of speculative cases. I've checked with Texinfo's Chinese support (after installing around a gigabyte of dependencies...) and the current output with texinfo-zh.tex uses the standard <chapno>.<secno> format. We don't give any method of customizing this in section headers in the main part of the page, or in the table of contents, or anywhere else the section number might appear. > * If you want a heading style like > > Chapter 3: foo, Section 2: bar > > > Werner
