Re: Chapter heading page style for LaTeX

[Patrice Dumas]

On Sat, Sep 03, 2022 at 11:47:39AM +0100, Gavin Smith wrote:
> In the LaTeX output we override the plain page style:
> 
>     % plain page style for part and chapter, which call \thispagestyle{plain}
>     \renewpagestyle{plain}{\sethead[\thepage{}][][]
>                                  {}{}{\thepage{}}}
> 
> - so that we have page numbers on chapter pages.
> 
> I feel that we should make the LaTeX output straightforward and
> idiomatic to make it easier for users to hack the output to their
> tastes, rather than trying to match the texinfo.tex output 
> closely.  (This is the same philosophy that we have for the HTML output.)

I agree.  There is probably some simplification of @titlepage possible,
which would look less similar to Texinfo TeX but is probably better in
the long term.

> If we add a lot of our own code to the preamble then it becomes intimidating
> and off-putting - users will feel that it is something that they shouldn't
> be touching.
> 
> What are your thoughts on removing this code?

No problem, but beware that the manual shuld be checked in parallel to
make sure that it is not something specified there.  If it is, my
suggestion would be to be either more vague on the Texinfo TeX output,
or clearer that it is only for Texinfo TeX.

-- 
Pat