On 6/24/05, Karl Berry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I am glad that someone read my mail and had thought the same way that I do initially! Thanks for your response.
> Indeed, I suggested some years ago that @node be made optional. rms > rejected the idea, because he felt node names should often be different > than section names, for brevity in the online versions. I'm not sure > about that, but didn't think it was worth the time to argue further. > > (It is also far from trivial to implement.) If the only need for @node was to give a different (and most often short) name to a @section or @subsection or @subsubsection or a @chapter, for the online version of the document, it can simply be achieved with an optional argument to @section, @subsection, etc. > I don't worry about the menus or the top node. They can be created (and > updated) automatically by various commands in the Emacs texinfo-mode, as > explained in the documentation. Thats exactly my point. Since it can be generated *automatically* by GNU Emacs, it suggests that the author of a documentation (or book) do not _ever_ need to write it. That is, instead of the editor doing it, the compiler (or translator texi2dvi) can do it. Anyway, I will leave it at this. I can learn it the way it is currently. Not a big problem. I just had this thought while reading the book, and so I wrote it down. I appreciate your response (very much because I initially thought that my suggestion/idea was not worth a response). Thank you. Rgds, anna -- After a quarrel, a wife said to her husband, "You know, I was a fool when I married you." The husband replied, "Yes, dear, but I was in love and didn't notice." _______________________________________________ Texinfo home page: http://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/ [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-texinfo
