[R] FAQ 7.x when 7 does not exist. Useability question

[John Kane]

Thank you Duncan. That is exactly what I meant.  The 
next level (for example, after clicking on R
Miscellanea) should also have numbers.

Whether or not it's possible in html as implimented on
the R website is another matter of course.

--- Duncan Murdoch <murdoch at stats.uwo.ca> wrote:

> On 8/23/2007 11:28 AM, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
> > On Thu, 23 Aug 2007, John Kane wrote:
> > 
> >> The FAQ Section 7 is a very useful place for new
> users
> >> to find out any number of R idiosycracies. 
> However
> >> there is no numbering on the FAQ Table of Content
> or
> >> on the Sections Tables of Contents.
> > 
> > Hmm, doc/FAQ does have a numbered table of
> contents and numbered sections 
> > and doc/manual/R-FAQ.html does have numbered
> sections and my browser's 
> > search finds 7.10 straight away.
> 
> I think the suggestion is to change the contents
> lists in HTML from <ul> 
> lists to <ol> lists.  Then one would see
> 
>     1. Introduction
>     2. R Basics
>     3. R and S
>     4. R Web Interfaces
>     5. R Add-On Packages
>     6. R and Emacs
>     7. R Miscellanea
>     8. R Programming
>     9. R Bugs
>    10. Acknowledgments
> 
> instead of
> 
>      * Introduction
>      * R Basics
>      * R and S
>      * R Web Interfaces
>      * R Add-On Packages
>      * R and Emacs
>      * R Miscellanea
>      * R Programming
>      * R Bugs
>      * Acknowledgments
> 
> in a browser, and I agree that would be preferable
> (assuming the 
> numbering is consistent with what we get in the
> other formats). 
> However, I don't see how to tell makeinfo --html to
> do this.  Adding 
> --number-sections isn't enough.
> 
> Duncan Murdoch
> 
> > 
> > 
> >> An R-help list reply of "Read FAQ 7.10" in
> response to
> >> a question about converting a factor to numeric
> is  a
> >> bit cryptic. The only time 7.10 appears is after
> the
> >> searcher has found the entry.
> > 
> > It would help if you told us what you are
> searching that did not contain 
> > '7.10'.
> > 
> >> Would it be a good idea to actually number the
> entries
> >> for the FAQ Table of Contents and the Table of
> >> Contents for the Sections?
> > 
> > I think we do.
> > 
> 
>