[bug #64588] [mm] H1dot register is inflexible

[G. Branden Robinson]

URL:
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                 Summary: [mm] H1dot register is inflexible
                   Group: GNU roff
               Submitter: gbranden
               Submitted: Thu 24 Aug 2023 08:16:41 AM UTC
                Category: Macro mm
                Severity: 1 - Wish
              Item Group: Feature change
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
             Assigned to: None
             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
         Planned Release: None


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Follow-up Comments:


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Date: Thu 24 Aug 2023 08:16:41 AM UTC By: G. Branden Robinson <gbranden>
I have some complaints.

* I don't like the name "H1dot".

* The document author might want the dots to appear in headings only at a
certain heading level; in other words, why don't we have a threshold register
for this as we do almost all other heading behavior?

* The document author might want dots in the formatted heading but not in
cross references to them using _groff mm_'s "new (sic) reference system". 
They get unconditionally stored, except at the first level if `H1dot` is
cleared.  This is inflexible; it's much easier to not store the dot in the
first place than strip it out later.

For example, the package defaults give us outcomes like this.


See chapter 3., page 5.
See chapter 2.1, page 3.


We might consider storing strings for the headings in end-dotted _and_
non-end-dotted forms, trusting the user to (re-)define the Qrf string as
needed (and as already encouraged).









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