Re: Numbering Menu Items in html output
> Sent: Saturday, November 28, 2020 at 6:20 PM > From: "Gavin Smith" > To: "Christopher Dimech" > Cc: "Patrice Dumas" > Subject: Re: Numbering Menu Items in html output > > Please send any queries to the public mailing lists > bug-texi...@gnu.org or help-texinfo@gnu.org. Missed the mailing list. Now I include it > On Sat, Nov 28, 2020 at 1:48 PM Christopher Dimech wrote: > > > > Have asked Eli to number the menu items for the "Emacs Lisp Reference > > Manual" > > who informed me that the menu gets unnumbered by Texinfo. > > > > Have done a test and can confirm. > > > > If one is using a Web Browser, it is much quicker to find if > > you say "See 10.4 Backquote". You just scroll to 10, then to > > four, rather than by a Brain Regexp. > > > > Regards > > Christopher > > > > > > > > >
Re: Numbering Menu Items in html output
On Sat, Nov 28, 2020 at 06:27:06PM +0100, Christopher Dimech wrote: > > On Sat, Nov 28, 2020 at 1:48 PM Christopher Dimech wrote: > > > > > > Have asked Eli to number the menu items for the "Emacs Lisp Reference > > > Manual" > > > who informed me that the menu gets unnumbered by Texinfo. > > > > > > Have done a test and can confirm. > > > > > > If one is using a Web Browser, it is much quicker to find if > > > you say "See 10.4 Backquote". You just scroll to 10, then to > > > four, rather than by a Brain Regexp. > > > > > > Regards > > > Christopher If you are referring to numbering menus in Info output then this cannot be changed, as Info reading programs need menu entries to begin with "* ", not with a number.
Re: Numbering Menu Items in html output
> Sent: Saturday, November 28, 2020 at 7:13 PM > From: "Gavin Smith" > To: "Christopher Dimech" > Cc: "help-texinfo gnu" > Subject: Re: Numbering Menu Items in html output > > On Sat, Nov 28, 2020 at 06:27:06PM +0100, Christopher Dimech wrote: > > > On Sat, Nov 28, 2020 at 1:48 PM Christopher Dimech wrote: > > > > > > > > Have asked Eli to number the menu items for the "Emacs Lisp Reference > > > > Manual" > > > > who informed me that the menu gets unnumbered by Texinfo. > > > > > > > > Have done a test and can confirm. > > > > > > > > If one is using a Web Browser, it is much quicker to find if > > > > you say "See 10.4 Backquote". You just scroll to 10, then to > > > > four, rather than by a Brain Regexp. > > > > > > > > Regards > > > > Christopher > > If you are referring to numbering menus in Info output then this cannot > be changed, as Info reading programs need menu entries to begin with "* ", > not with a number. I am referring to html when using a web browser. See https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/index.html @chapter, @section, @sub.. do get numbered. I was introspecting the notion that the numbering is introduced according to what is customarily done when numbering chapters and sections. Eli mentioned that @menu is generated automatically. We want to avoid writing the numbers manually.
