[latexrefman] Layout of sectional units

[Vincent Belaïche]

One more thing — as I am revisiting \@@startsection. I came across this:

   @noindent
   redefines @code{\section} to have the form
   @code{\section*[@var{toctitle}]@{@var{title}@}} (here too, the
   star at tie{}@code{*} is optional).

In the French I have this (probably I just clarified it on the fly
when I translated w/o pointing it out to you, or maybe it was changed
to a more obscure phrasing. I did not any archeology on it) :

  @noindent redéfinit @code{\section} en gardant sa forme standarde d'appel
  @code{\section*[@var{titretdm}]@{@var{titre}@}} (…)

which means « redefines @code{\section} with keeping its standard
calling form (…) »

I think that the French phrasing is better, you don't really redefine
it to have (presumably new) form, but instead to keep its standard
form.

Could you please confirm that the rephrasing « redefines
@code{\section} with keeping its standard calling form » is OK in
English.

  V.

Le sam. 5 sept. 2020 à 18:32, Vincent Belaïche
<vincent.belaiche at gmail.com> a écrit :
>
> 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.