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Re: Commas in section headings
From: |
Graham Percival |
Subject: |
Re: Commas in section headings |
Date: |
Fri, 12 Aug 2011 09:09:43 -0700 |
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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.
> >
> > OK. I'll fix the two that slipped through, although they look a
> > little strange without the commas.
>
> 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. (do you have any clue when this will be? AFAIK the
latest version is 4.13a from 2008)
> 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 forbidden characters like the comma.
sure, we already have
scripts/auxiliar/node-menuify.py
that could be expanded to handle this.
Cheers,
- Graham
- Commas in section headings, Trevor Daniels, 2011/08/11
- Re: Commas in section headings, Jean-Charles Malahieude, 2011/08/11
- Re: Commas in section headings, Trevor Daniels, 2011/08/11
- Re: Commas in section headings, Graham Percival, 2011/08/11
- Re: Commas in section headings, Trevor Daniels, 2011/08/11
- Re: Commas in section headings, Werner LEMBERG, 2011/08/12
- Re: Commas in section headings,
Graham Percival <=
- Re: Commas in section headings, Werner LEMBERG, 2011/08/12
- Re: Commas in section headings, Graham Percival, 2011/08/12
- Re: Commas in section headings, Trevor Daniels, 2011/08/12
- Re: Commas in section headings, Graham Percival, 2011/08/12
- Re: Commas in section headings, Trevor Daniels, 2011/08/12
- Re: Commas in section headings, Graham Percival, 2011/08/16