On 8/23/2007 11:28 AM, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: > On Thu, 23 Aug 2007, John Kane wrote: > >> The FAQ Section 7 is a very useful place for new users >> to find out any number of R idiosycracies. However >> there is no numbering on the FAQ Table of Content or >> on the Sections Tables of Contents. > > Hmm, doc/FAQ does have a numbered table of contents and numbered sections > and doc/manual/R-FAQ.html does have numbered sections and my browser's > search finds 7.10 straight away.
I think the suggestion is to change the contents lists in HTML from <ul> lists to <ol> lists. Then one would see 1. Introduction 2. R Basics 3. R and S 4. R Web Interfaces 5. R Add-On Packages 6. R and Emacs 7. R Miscellanea 8. R Programming 9. R Bugs 10. Acknowledgments instead of * Introduction * R Basics * R and S * R Web Interfaces * R Add-On Packages * R and Emacs * R Miscellanea * R Programming * R Bugs * Acknowledgments in a browser, and I agree that would be preferable (assuming the numbering is consistent with what we get in the other formats). However, I don't see how to tell makeinfo --html to do this. Adding --number-sections isn't enough. Duncan Murdoch > > >> An R-help list reply of "Read FAQ 7.10" in response to >> a question about converting a factor to numeric is a >> bit cryptic. The only time 7.10 appears is after the >> searcher has found the entry. > > It would help if you told us what you are searching that did not contain > '7.10'. > >> Would it be a good idea to actually number the entries >> for the FAQ Table of Contents and the Table of >> Contents for the Sections? > > I think we do. > ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.