Re: Numbering Menu Items in html output

[Christopher Dimech]

> Sent: Saturday, November 28, 2020 at 7:13 PM
> From: "Gavin Smith" <gavinsmith0123@gmail.com>
> To: "Christopher Dimech" <dimech@gmx.com>
> Cc: "help-texinfo gnu" <help-texinfo@gnu.org>
> 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 <dimech@gmx.com> 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.