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bug#26236: 24.5; Info manual: need better index entry for node "`1'-`9'
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Drew Adams |
Subject: |
bug#26236: 24.5; Info manual: need better index entry for node "`1'-`9' choose a menu subtopic by its number" |
Date: |
Sat, 25 Mar 2017 07:08:35 -0700 (PDT) |
> > In the Info manual, please provide more and better index entries for
> > this node. A user should be able to find it using `i menu TAB'.
>
> Done. You can now use any of
> i menu RET
> i star RET
> i 3 RET
> i third RET
> i 6 RET
> i sixth RET
> to get to the "Choose menu subtopic" node.
Thanks.
> > 2. Using `i menu TAB' you can get to node `Menus and the ‘m’
> > command' (which should be named `Menus and the ‘m’ Command'). But
> > from that node you cannot get to node ``1'-`9' choose a menu
> > subtopic by its number'. Each of these nodes should have a
> > cross-reference to the other. The first of these nodes purports
> > to be the main node about menus. It should link to other nodes
> > that talk about using menus.
>
> I don't see why adding cross-references in that node would be a good
> idea. That node is part of the "quick tour" section of the manual,
> and as such it should not risk inadvertently showing to the reader
> "advanced" features she didn't yet have chance reading about.
It's also the main node you get to from `i menu'. There's
nothing wrong with cross-referencing some "advanced"
information from a "tour" node, as long as it is identified
as such.
I also mentioned an xref in the other direction. Link to
general info about the menu and using `m', from the node
about using 1-9.
> > 3. The index entry `select N’th menu item' should use "Nth", not
> > "N’th".
>
> I don't understand why. I left that alone.
Because it is not how nth is written in English. Or in
Emacs, for that matter.
> > 4. This node name, and some other node names in the manual, should use
> > title case, not sentence case. E.g. `1'-`9' Choose a Menu Subtopic By
> > its Number". (That title is anyway not so good. Put the 1-9 at the
> > end, and remove the quotes.)
>
> These are not node names, they are section/subsection names.
OK. They are menu items, or menu-item descriptions.
> This manual seems to have a consistent style regarding these names,
> and I don't see why we should change its convention by another.
How is it consistent regarding these menu items/descriptions?
Some of them use title case and some use sentence case - in
the same menu.
Anyway, if you took care of #1 then thank you for that.