Re: [PATCH] doc/org-manual.org (Checkboxes): move section 'Checkboxes' from 'TODO Items' to 'Plain Lists'

[Ihor Radchenko]

Matt <matt@excalamus.com> writes:

> I had responded in favor here: 
> https://list.orgmode.org/18d4cf138a6.10fb9c6702382826.5023996590743168415@excalamus.com/

Did I miss something, or did you not provided arguments /why/ the
section should be moved? I need to understand what kind of improvement
it would provide to the manual.

> The Checkboxes section is written assuming the reader knows what Properties 
> are.  The GNU documentation guidelines suggest writing as though readers have 
> read from the beginning [fn:1] [fn:2].  That is, unless introducing a 
> concept, only use concepts that have already been explained.  Properties are 
> introduced in Section 2.7 and Checkboxes is currently 5.6.   The proposal is 
> to move Checkboxes to 2.6.1 *before* properties are introduced.  This is a 
> problem.

We start talking about properties as early as in 2.2.2 Initial
visibility and in many other places. Re-ordering the manual to avoid
referring to future concepts would entail a major rewrite.

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