Re: numbering sections in makeinfo output

Simon Law <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.tex.texinfo.pretest
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 08:13:09PM -0500, Karl Berry wrote:
> For some time, makeinfo has had an option --number-sections to number
> the chapters/appendices/sections/etc. in its output, a la TeX.  (I think
> kama originally implemented it, but to be honest I don't remember.)
> 
> Offhand, it would seem logical to make this the default, so that TeX and
> HTML/Info output are similar.  Does this seem reasonable?  Does anyone
> see a reason not to do this?

	This sounds perfectly reasonable to me.  We should definitely
aim to get all forms of documentation as similar as possible.  (It makes
it easier to refer to Section 2.1 of some manual, right?)

Simon
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