Re: Major and minor modes

[Jean-Christophe Helary]

>> IOW, a book requires somewhat different considerations wrt its
>> sectioning than an on-line version of the manual.
>> 
>>> That discrepancy is a bit weird.
>> 
>> Is it still weird?

Yes, and I have the exact same opinion as Drew on this one.

There are no logical reasons why a part of the manual would be a chapter on its 
own in one version and a sub chapter in a different version.

Shall we move this discussion to emacs-devel ?

> But section numbers, like section names, are not just content.
> They are navigational.  They are used for reference, including
> as was the case in this thread: someone pointing to a particular
> section by name or number.
> 
> [Yes, a _link_ to a section in an online manual is often
> preferable to such a purely textual representation.  But that
> is not a reason why the section numbers or names should differ.]
> 
> As with everything, there might be exceptions.  But what was
> shown here does not seem like a good candidate for being an
> exception.

Jean-Christophe