Appendices vs. Chapters

[Werner LEMBERG]

I think there is an inconsistency between naming chapters and
appendices.

  @chapter foo

produces

  1  foo

but

  @appendix foo

gives

  Appendix A  foo

Why the word `Appendix'?  I think

  A  foo

is fully sufficient, at least in the printed output.  Especially in
the TOC, if you have many appendices, repeating the word `Appendix' is
extremely ugly and unnecessary.

I ask to remove that.  An alternative is to introduce a command

  @startappendix

or something similar which produces a blank page with the word
`Appendix' on it.

BTW, it doesn't help to say

  @tex
  \gdef\putwordAppendix{}
  @end tex

since texinfo.tex always inserts a `{}' after \putwordAppendix, making
it non-trivial to eat the space after it:

  @tex
  \gdef\gobblefirst#1#2{#2}
  \gdef\putwordAppendix{\gobblefirst}
  @end tex

Well, *I* can find such a solution, but Joe User can't.

In case texinfo gets more internationalized, the whole construction
must be changed since you can't assume a fixed order of the chapter
and the chapter number.  For example in Chinese, you say `di 1 fulu'
for Appendix 1; `di' makes a cardinal, and `fulu' is appendix.  No
letters are used at all for counting appendices.  I know this is
beyond texinfo currently, but...


    Werner