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30.0.50; Adding window-tool-bar package.

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From: Jared Finder <jared <at> finder.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: philipk <at> posteo.net, 68765 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca,
 juri <at> linkov.net
Subject: Re: bug#68765: 30.0.50; Adding window-tool-bar package.
Date: Sat, 25 May 2024 12:54:30 -0700

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On 2024-05-25 10:03, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> Date: Sat, 25 May 2024 08:49:22 -0700
>> From: Jared Finder <jared <at> finder.org>
>> Cc: juri <at> linkov.net, 68765 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, philipk <at> posteo.net,
>>  monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca
>> 
>> >> +@node Window Tool Bar
>> >> +@cindex mode, Window Tool Bar
>> >
>> > Index entries should preferably use only lower-case letters, to avoid
>> > problems with sorting index entries in different locales.
>> >
>> > In addition, I would rephrase the above index entry to say just
>> >
>> >   @cindex window tool bar
>> 
>> I don't think that fits in with the existing convention.  The 
>> convention
>> appears to be "use mode, Capital Case Name" for specific modes and
>> "mode, lower case" for concepts.  There's 76 other examples of 
>> "@cindex
>> mode," in the Emacs manual already, the majority of which follow that
>> convention.
>> 
>> The only examples I could find not following the convention are: 
>> "mode,
>> archive", "mode, tar", "mode, display-fill-column-indicator".
> 
> Nevertheless, I stand by what I wrote.  The examples which you quote,
> whether they are a few or not, are mistakes: letter-case affects
> sorting of index entries in locale-dependent way, so index entries
> that us capital letters will appear in a different order in different
> locales, which is not a good thing.

Ok, I tried to fit into the existing convention but not use upper case 
letters with "@cindex mode, window tool bar".  Let me know if that's not 
appropriate.

>> I will try to redescribe it.  I have a typo in the existing 
>> description.
>>   Change "all windows" to "each window".  The idea is that each window
>> gets its own tool bar *inside the window*, specifically on the 
>> window's
>> tab line.  Ideally I think I would just show a picture (see attached
>> image), but I see very few pictures in any of the Emacs manuals and 
>> none
>> of them show up in the HTML output at
>> https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/, only in the PDF.
> 
> I don't think there were images in our manuals in previous versions,
> which is why they don't appear in HTML.
> 
> Pictures have a disadvantage in that they cannot be displayed on TTY
> frames, so a picture that cannot be replaced by some "ASCII art"
> generally means the reader on a TTY frame will be at a disadvantage.

That's what I was concerned about.  Please let me know if this updated 
text is clear enough.

> I will wait for the next version to see if my questions are now
> answered or we need to discuss them further.

New patch attached.  Feedback welcome.

  -- MJF

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