[latexrefman] Layout of sectional units

Vincent Belaïche vincent.belaiche at gmail.com
Sat Sep 5 18:32:18 CEST 2020


BTW in latex2e.tex there were LOTS of @xref not followed by « , » or « . ».

I also rephrased « Two counters relate to the appearance sectioning
commands. » to « Two counters relate to the appearance of *headings
made by* sectioning commands. »
  V.

Le sam. 5 sept. 2020 à 18:23, Vincent Belaïche
<vincent.belaiche at gmail.com> a écrit :
>
> Also, still about Shakespear's language: Karl told me that @xref has
> to be followed by a punctuation « , » or « . », so I am going through
> latex2e.texi with this Emacs regexp @xref{[^}]+}[^,.] and thus I
> spotted all of them and fixed them.
>
>  All but one :
>
>   This is not the way to show verbatim text or computer code.
>   @xref{verbatim} instead.
>
> I think that in the case above it is better w/o the punctuation. But,
> well, as in French you won't use such a punctuation, frankly speaking
> my gut feeling is highly biased, and the opinion of a native speaker
> is needed.
>    V.
>
> Le sam. 5 sept. 2020 à 18:17, Vincent Belaïche
> <vincent.belaiche at gmail.com> a écrit :
> >
> > Hello Jim,
> > While I have you at hand, please confirm that in English *a* in «
> > Otherwise you can get *a*
> > something like a subsection numbered @samp{3.0.1} » is a typo and has
> > to be removed.
> >
> >   V.
> >
> > Le sam. 5 sept. 2020 à 15:31, Vincent Belaïche
> > <vincent.belaiche at gmail.com> a écrit :
> > >
> > > > Please, will you make the change?
> > >
> > > Yes, I am at it.
> > >   V.
> > >
> > > > Thank you,
> > > > Jim
> > > >
> > > > ---------------
> > > > It is up to you: https://www.vote.org/
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > ________________________________________
> > > > From: Vincent Belaïche <vincent.belaiche at gmail.com>
> > > > Sent: Saturday, September 5, 2020 8:36
> > > > To: latexrefman; Hefferon, Jim S.
> > > > Subject: Layout of sectional units
> > > >
> > > > ⚠ External Sender ⚠
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Dear Jim,
> > > >
> > > > With Karl's latest change I realised that your r649 was incompletely
> > > > propagated to the French version (notably the article template). I am
> > > > fixing this now, and that will be my last change before publishing the
> > > > French version to CTAN.
> > > >
> > > > Looking at 648->649 changes I saw that the title of \@startsection was
> > > > improved to « Layout of sectional units ».
> > > >
> > > > I think that the title is still not fully clear. What we speak about
> > > > here is not the layout of the unit itself but typesetting its heading.
> > > >
> > > > I propose to change this to « Typesetting sectional unit headings »,
> > > > what do you think?
> > > > In French it is easier because « rubrique » means firstly the
> > > > sectional unit heading, and only by metonymy the unit itself, so the
> > > > French would just be « Composer les rubriques » (rubrique is from
> > > > Latin rubrica = red earth, because sectional unit heading used to be
> > > > typeset in brick red color).
> > > >
> > > >   V.



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