Em Fri, 16 Sep 2016 17:34:26 -0300
Mauro Carvalho Chehab escreveu:
> Em Fri, 16 Sep 2016 11:13:14 -0600
> Jonathan Corbet escreveu:
>
> > On Wed, 14 Sep 2016 08:06:36 -0300
> > Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
> >
> > > - Fix all chapter identation;
> > > - add c blocks where needed;
> >
> > Here is where I think we need a bit of a philosophical discussion...
> >
> > > - Chapter 1: Indentation
> > > +Indentation
> > > +---
> >
> > You're a fan of having sphinx do the numbering, and I have no problem
> > understanding why. But this will defeat people who say "look in chapter 3
> > of Documentation/CodingStyle". We're removing a bit of information from
> > the plain-text file and reserving it for the formatted version. If we're
> > really going to do that, we should do it consciously, with the knowledge
> > that there is a cost involved.
> >
> > We'll see this even more with SubmittingPatches, where it is quite common
> > for people to cite the number of the section they think is being violated
> > in any given situation.
>
> I see your point. However, AFAICT, there's no way to disable automatic
> numbering for LaTeX and PDF formats: it will always generate an index.
>
> It is actually worse than that: the numbering for the LaTeX and PDF
> versions of the document don't match with the numbering for html and ePub,
> and Sphinx restricts to just one numbered TOC index for the entire document.
>
> Currently, I don't know any way to fix it.
>
> So, keeping the current numeration there will produce a very messy
> PDF output, with the two numerations altogether.
I found a way to trick Sphinx LaTeX output... not an elegant one, though.
We can add a tag at development-process/index.rst like:
.. raw:: latex
\renewcommand\thesection{\fnsymbol{section}}
\renewcommand\thesubsection{\thesection.\fnsymbol{subsection}}
To use symbols instead of numbers for chapter numbering, or something
like:
.. raw:: latex
\renewcommand\thesection*
\renewcommand\thesubsection*
To use "*" for both sections and subsections.
That makes it to hide the numbers on the LaTeX output. There's an issue,
though: it will internally keep numbering it.
So, the page feet will still be numbering the chapters/sections like:
Chapter 12. Email clients info for Linux
*. Some email client (MUA) hints
And the chapter will still be numbered like:
CHAPTER
TWELVE
--
EMAIL CLIENTS INFO FOR LINUX
Maybe we could get better results if we do something at the LaTex
preamble, but the preamble is global to *ALL* books that use the same
conf.py.
As we chose to have just one global conf.py for the "normal" output,
IMHO, we should not put book-specific stuff at the latex_elements
preamble.
Also, please notice that this will also affect numeration at the
documents of the development-process.rst sub-book.
One alternative would be:
1) remove the :numbered: from the TOC tree. This will disable
numbering for HTML/ePub outputs;
2) use a \renewcommand just for \thesubsection (as doing it for the
chapter doesn't really work fine);
3) keep the already existing numeration for CodingStyle/SubmitPatches/...
Maybe we could find a way to change the top-level "chapter" numeration
to "part", but, I suspect that such change would need to be done via
LaTeX preamble.
Comments?
PoC patch enclosed.
Thanks,
Mauro
diff --git a/Documentation/development-process/index.rst
b/Documentation/development-process/index.rst
index e38f44729a21..92055353a598 100644
--- a/Documentation/development-process/index.rst
+++ b/Documentation/development-process/index.rst
@@ -1,10 +1,17 @@
+.. raw:: latex
+
+ \renewcommand\thesection*
+.. \renewcommand\thesubsection*
+.. \renewcommand\thesection{\fnsymbol{section}}
+.. \renewcommand\thesubsection{\thesection.\fnsymbol{subsection}}
+
+
Linux Kernel Development Documentation
==
Contents:
.. toctree::
- :numbered:
:maxdepth: 2
HOWTO
