On Sun, Oct 25, 2026 at 05:08:02PM +0100, Patrice Dumas wrote: > On Sun, Oct 25, 2026 at 02:14:56PM +0000, Gavin Smith wrote: > > Yes, the documentation uses the term "sectioning command" inconsistently. > > I noticed this recently and I have in mind to revise this. > > > > My understanding is that @heading is not a sectioning command. It's > > described > > in the chapter of the Texinfo documentation called "Chapter Structuring" so > > we could describe it as a "chapter structuring command" or "structuring > > command". > > I am not very comfortable with calling @heading a "structuring command", > as it does not really set the underlying structure the document, it only > changes the "visual" structure of the document since it is formatted as > a heading, but I think that we should reserve structuring to the other > class of sectioning commands. I may also misunderstand what structure > exactly means as it exists in french and may be a false friend.
No, you are right - there would be the same problem in English. I understood that @chapter, @appendix and @unnumbered were sectioning commands, and @chapheading was a heading command. This is from how the words were used in the texi2any code. The term "chapter structuring command" was hardly used except in some parts in the manual. I will review the manual to check terms are used correctly.
