Headings numbering, visible anchors

[Thomas Chung]

On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 10:41 AM, Tim Landscheidt <tim at tim-landscheidt.de> wrote:
> "Thomas Chung" <tchung at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
>
>  >>  I read Fedora Weekly News as plain text, and one thing that
>  >>  has bothered me for some time is that while the headings in
>  >>  the table of contents are numbered, the headings in the text
>  >>  "body" are not. Besides, there are several lines à la
>  >>  "[[Anchor(Marketing)]]" in the text whose presence looks un-
>  >>  wanted.
>
>  >>   Would it be possible to correct these mistakes? I'd have
>  >>  happily provided patches, but I have not found the script
>  >>  used to convert the newsletter to plain text.
>
>
> > Thank you for your feedback.
>  > However that's not a mistake but a feature of wiki.
>  > We're trying to accommodate both text email readers and wiki readers.
>  > Numbers  in TOC is generated automatically by the wiki system.
>  > Anchors are there so wiki users and translators  can refer to a section easily.
>  > For example, http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue122#Marketing
>
>  Yes, but anchors are of no use in plain text emails, and I
>  do not complain about the numbering in the TOC but of the
>  lack hereof in the body. To illustrate, the current issue
>  starts with:
>
>  | = Fedora Weekly News Issue 122 =
>
>  | [...]
>
>  |    1. Announcements
>  |          1. Fedora Board IRC meeting 2008-03-04
>  | [...]
>
>  | [[Anchor(Announcements)]]
>  | == Announcements ==
>
>  | In this section, we cover announcements from Fedora Project.
>
>  | https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-announce-list
>
>  | Contributing Writer: ThomasChung
>
>  | === Fedora Board IRC meeting 2008-03-04 ===
>
>  | PaulFrields announces in fedora-announce-list[1],
>
>  | [...]
>
>  I'd propose - in plain text emails - to leave out the
>  "[[Anchor(Announcements)]]" line, and change
>  "== Announcements ==" to "== 1. Announcements ==" and
>  "=== Fedora Board IRC meeting 2008-03-04 ===" to
>  "=== 1.1. Fedora Board IRC meeting 2008-03-04 ===".
>
>   I think it is useful to provide the numbering in the body,
>  because it is the only way the reader can easily find the
>  section whose title he saw in the TOC.

I see your point. We'll consider your feature request.
Regards,
-- 
Thomas Chung
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ThomasChung