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Re: Major and minor modes
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Jean-Christophe Helary |
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Re: Major and minor modes |
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Fri, 16 Jun 2017 11:09:18 +0900 |
>> IOW, a book requires somewhat different considerations wrt its
>> sectioning than an on-line version of the manual.
>>
>>> That discrepancy is a bit weird.
>>
>> Is it still weird?
Yes, and I have the exact same opinion as Drew on this one.
There are no logical reasons why a part of the manual would be a chapter on its
own in one version and a sub chapter in a different version.
Shall we move this discussion to emacs-devel ?
> But section numbers, like section names, are not just content.
> They are navigational. They are used for reference, including
> as was the case in this thread: someone pointing to a particular
> section by name or number.
>
> [Yes, a _link_ to a section in an online manual is often
> preferable to such a purely textual representation. But that
> is not a reason why the section numbers or names should differ.]
>
> As with everything, there might be exceptions. But what was
> shown here does not seem like a good candidate for being an
> exception.
Jean-Christophe
- RE: Major and minor modes, (continued)
- RE: Major and minor modes, Drew Adams, 2017/06/13
- Re: Major and minor modes, Eli Zaretskii, 2017/06/14
- Re: Major and minor modes, Jean-Christophe Helary, 2017/06/14
- Re: Major and minor modes, Jean-Christophe Helary, 2017/06/14
- Re: Major and minor modes, Emanuel Berg, 2017/06/15
- Re: Major and minor modes, Eli Zaretskii, 2017/06/15
- RE: Major and minor modes, Drew Adams, 2017/06/15
- Re: Major and minor modes,
Jean-Christophe Helary <=
- RE: Major and minor modes, Drew Adams, 2017/06/15
- Re: Major and minor modes, Emanuel Berg, 2017/06/16
- Re: Major and minor modes, Jean-Christophe Helary, 2017/06/16
- Re: Major and minor modes, Emanuel Berg, 2017/06/16
- Re: Major and minor modes, Eli Zaretskii, 2017/06/16
- Re: Major and minor modes, Jean-Christophe Helary, 2017/06/16
- Re: Major and minor modes, Emanuel Berg, 2017/06/16
- Re: Major and minor modes, Emanuel Berg, 2017/06/14
- Re: Major and minor modes, Narendra Joshi, 2017/06/17
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