Re: Commas in section headings

2011-08-15 Thread Graham Percival
On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 11:09:45PM +0100, Trevor Daniels wrote: > > Graham Percival wrote Friday, August 12, 2011 10:44 PM > > >Because some new doc editor -- quite possibly with relatively poor > >English skills -- will write something new and @ref{} the section > >name they see in the HMTL docs

Re: Commas in section headings

2011-08-12 Thread Trevor Daniels
Graham Percival wrote Friday, August 12, 2011 10:44 PM On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 10:22:49PM +0100, Trevor Daniels wrote: Graham Percival wrote Friday, August 12, 2011 5:09 PM I don't see what difficulties arise from having section names that differ slightly from the node name, other than mayb

Re: Commas in section headings

2011-08-12 Thread Graham Percival
On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 10:22:49PM +0100, Trevor Daniels wrote: > > Graham Percival wrote Friday, August 12, 2011 5:09 PM > > >On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 01:41:29PM +0200, Werner LEMBERG wrote: > >>What I can imagine is that node names get automatically derived > >>from > >>section names. For examp

Re: Commas in section headings

2011-08-12 Thread Graham Percival
On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 07:01:14PM +0200, Werner LEMBERG wrote: > > > (do you have any clue when this will be? AFAIK the latest version > > is 4.13a from 2008) > > Don't expect a release soon. It's still not really compatible to the > good old makeinfo binary (and additionally at least 20 times

Re: Commas in section headings

2011-08-12 Thread Trevor Daniels
Graham Percival wrote Friday, August 12, 2011 5:09 PM On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 01:41:29PM +0200, Werner LEMBERG wrote: What I can imagine is that node names get automatically derived from section names. For example, a script might check that, stripping off all texinfo commands and other fo

Re: Commas in section headings

2011-08-12 Thread Werner LEMBERG
>> I second that. IMHO it's a very bad idea that we have to limit >> correct use of English due to restrictions in a program (which are in >> this case even non-existent)! > > I thought this was going to be a new feature of the next version > of texinfo. Commas in section names? No, this was a

Re: Commas in section headings

2011-08-12 Thread Graham Percival
On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 01:41:29PM +0200, Werner LEMBERG wrote: > > >> Yes. I disallow commas in @section headings because IMO we should > >> always have the @section heading match the @node -- doing otherwise > >> is just begging for trouble down the road. >

Re: Commas in section headings

2011-08-12 Thread Werner LEMBERG
>> Yes. I disallow commas in @section headings because IMO we should >> always have the @section heading match the @node -- doing otherwise >> is just begging for trouble down the road. > > OK. I'll fix the two that slipped through, although they look a > littl

Re: Commas in section headings

2011-08-11 Thread Trevor Daniels
commas in @section headings because IMO we should always have the @section heading match the @node -- doing otherwise is just begging for trouble down the road. OK. I'll fix the two that slipped through, although they look a little strange without the commas. Ah, yes, I remember now.

Re: Commas in section headings

2011-08-11 Thread Graham Percival
On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 11:45:39AM +0100, Trevor Daniels wrote: > > Jean-Charles, you wrote Thursday, August 11, 2011 10:00 AM > > >You may not have a comma in a @node, but you can use it in its > >labeling *section: Yes. I disallow commas in @section headings because IMO

Re: Commas in section headings

2011-08-11 Thread Trevor Daniels
Jean-Charles, you wrote Thursday, August 11, 2011 10:00 AM Le 11/08/2011 10:10, Trevor Daniels disait : I vaguely remember commas should not be used in section headings, but can't remember why. There is nothing about this in the CG that I can find. Can you please remind me. You may not

Re: Commas in section headings

2011-08-11 Thread Jean-Charles Malahieude
Le 11/08/2011 10:10, Trevor Daniels disait : Graham I vaguely remember commas should not be used in section headings, but can't remember why. There is nothing about this in the CG that I can find. Can you please remind me. Trevor You may not have a comma in a @node, but you can use it in its

Commas in section headings

2011-08-11 Thread Trevor Daniels
Graham I vaguely remember commas should not be used in section headings, but can't remember why. There is nothing about this in the CG that I can find. Can you please remind me. Trevor - No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 10.0.1392 / Virus Database: