[OS X Emacs] ECB context menu in Aquamacs

Robert Goldman rpgoldman at sift.info
Mon Oct 3 09:22:49 EDT 2011


On 10/2/11 Oct 2 -1:04 PM, David Reitter wrote:
> On Oct 2, 2011, at 12:33 PM, Robert Goldman wrote:
>>
>> 1.  Why are the section numbers stripped off on the online version of
>> the manual?  It doesn't seem to do any actual good to do this, and it
>> complicates references, as in this case here?
> 
> Presumably because the default in latex2html is not to show section numbers (that's what we use to generate the Apple Help documents (in HTML) from the LaTeX manual source).  Perhaps Kevin Walzer, who wrote the original conversion, had his reasons, such as other Apple Help manuals not having section numbers either.
> 
> I've changed this in the configuration, so we should have section numbers going forward.
> 
> 
>> 2.  Why is the Help menu entry "Aquamacs Help" when it points to the
>> Aquamacs manual?  I found it confusing to find the Aquamacs manual,
>> because the only "manual" in this menu is "Emacs manual".  What about
>> retitling the entry to "Aquamacs manual"?
> 
> Yes, that's a good change.  The original reasoning was, I believe, that "<AppName> Help" is the normal way of titling this, but I don't think we need to insist on inconsistencies within the application.
> 
> I've made that change, thanks for your suggestions.

Thank you!  I am glad these were helpful.

best,
R



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