Re: Help wanted: Minor *.doc -> *.tex problem

[Hans-Bernhard B. <br...@ph...>]

Ethan Merritt wrote:

[Ethan, a side note: you occasionally send mail encoded as Japanese
(Shift-JIS) for no readily apparent reason.  It's not a major hassle,
but you may want to check what's going on there...]

> I found the problem because I was trying to add a new section
> elsewhere. Adding additional levels is the only way I know of to
> break the interactive help into shorter sections and have it
> prompt for additional keywords.  So it's useful in the *.gih form.

Let's say: it can be, if not abused.  A node with only one subnode
doesn't make terribly much sense, IMHO.

I don't think keeping individual nodes short would be sufficient reason
to split them up.  It's more important to keep up the principle of
one subject matter <--> one node.

> In the printed docs it is maybe not so useful.  Levels beyond
> 4 or 5 may not need a separate TOC number of their own.

Levels beyond 6 already don't --- they'll just end up starting
plain paragraphs.

> But it would be nice to have an index at the back that catches
> them. Is that possible?

Possible: yes.  But it could turn into a major hassle to make it happen.
Currently, our LaTeX document has no index at all.  Adding the necessary
apparatus to generate one could prove quite tricky.