Re: "Roadmap to the manual" chapter in the manual has out of order chapters and missing chapters.

["Carlos O'Donell" <carlos at redhat dot com>]

On 02/28/2014 04:30 PM, Roland McGrath wrote:
> If you follow all the history back to the original writing of the manual, I
> suspect you'll find that it was entirely correct to begin with.  I think
> chapters have been added and reordered without regard to the effect on the
> introduction.  The manual was originally written by a good writer with
> structure that made it a good read for the beginner.  It has accreted a lot
> more content and miscellaneous changes since then, with basically no
> attention whatsoever to writing quality.

Thanks, in which case I'll commit this patch shortly if nobody objects.

Tested with pdf output. Overview order now follows the order in the manual.

2014-02-28  Carlos O'Donell  <carlos@redhat.com>

	* manual/intro.texi (Roadmap to the manual): Sort chapter
	listing to match manual order.

diff --git a/manual/intro.texi b/manual/intro.texi
index 0f57859..c0c9974 100644
--- a/manual/intro.texi
+++ b/manual/intro.texi
@@ -1283,19 +1283,59 @@ The header file @file{termios.h} reserves names prefixed with @samp{c_},
 Here is an overview of the contents of the remaining chapters of
 this manual.
 
+@c The chapter overview ordering is:
+@c Error Reporting (2)
+@c Virtual Memory Allocation and Paging (3)
+@c Character Handling (4)
+@c Strings and Array Utilities (5)
+@c Character Set Handling (6)
+@c Locales and Internationalization (7)
+@c Searching and Sorting (9)
+@c Pattern Matching (10)
+@c Input/Output Overview (11)
+@c Input/Output on Streams (12)
+@c Low-level Input/Ooutput (13)
+@c File System Interface (14)
+@c Pipes and FIFOs (15)
+@c Sockets (16)
+@c Low-Level Terminal Interface (17)
+@c Syslog (18)
+@c Mathematics (19)
+@c Aritmetic Functions (20)
+@c Date and Time (21)
+@c Non-Local Exist (23)
+@c Signal Handling (24)
+@c The Basic Program/System Interface (25)
+@c Processes (26)
+@c Job Control (28)
+@c System Databases and Name Service Switch (29)
+@c Users and Groups (30) -- References `User Database' and `Group Database'
+@c System Management (31)
+@c System Configuration Parameters (32)
+@c C Language Facilities in the Library (AA)
+@c Summary of Library Facilities (AB)
+@c Installing (AC)
+@c Library Maintenance (AD)
+
+@c The following chapters need overview text to be added:
+@c Message Translation (8)
+@c Resource Usage And Limitations (22)
+@c Inter-Process Communication (27)
+@c DES Encryption and Password Handling (33)
+@c Debugging support (34)
+@c POSIX Threads (35)
+@c Internal Probes (36)
+@c Platform-specific facilities (AE)
+@c Contributors to (AF)
+@c Free Software Needs Free Documentation (AG)
+@c GNU Lesser General Public License (AH)
+@c GNU Free Documentation License (AI)
+
 @itemize @bullet
 @item
 @ref{Error Reporting}, describes how errors detected by the library
 are reported.
 
-@item
-@ref{Language Features}, contains information about library support for
-standard parts of the C language, including things like the @code{sizeof}
-operator and the symbolic constant @code{NULL}, how to write functions
-accepting variable numbers of arguments, and constants describing the
-ranges and other properties of the numerical types.  There is also a simple
-debugging mechanism which allows you to put assertions in your code, and
-have diagnostic messages printed if the tests fail.
 
 @item
 @ref{Memory}, describes @theglibc{}'s facilities for managing and
@@ -1315,6 +1355,26 @@ manipulating strings (null-terminated character arrays) and general
 byte arrays, including operations such as copying and comparison.
 
 @item
+@ref{Character Set Handling}, contains information about manipulating
+characters and strings using character sets larger than will fit in
+the usual @code{char} data type.
+
+@item
+@ref{Locales}, describes how selecting a particular country
+or language affects the behavior of the library.  For example, the locale
+affects collation sequences for strings and how monetary values are
+formatted.
+
+@item
+@ref{Searching and Sorting}, contains information about functions
+for searching and sorting arrays.  You can use these functions on any
+kind of array by providing an appropriate comparison function.
+
+@item
+@ref{Pattern Matching}, presents functions for matching regular expressions
+and shell file name patterns, and for expanding words as the shell does.
+
+@item
 @ref{I/O Overview}, gives an overall look at the input and output
 facilities in the library, and contains information about basic concepts
 such as file names.
@@ -1366,30 +1426,10 @@ for simple arithmetic, analysis of floating-point values, and reading
 numbers from strings.
 
 @item
-@ref{Searching and Sorting}, contains information about functions
-for searching and sorting arrays.  You can use these functions on any
-kind of array by providing an appropriate comparison function.
-
-@item
-@ref{Pattern Matching}, presents functions for matching regular expressions
-and shell file name patterns, and for expanding words as the shell does.
-
-@item
 @ref{Date and Time}, describes functions for measuring both calendar time
 and CPU time, as well as functions for setting alarms and timers.
 
 @item
-@ref{Character Set Handling}, contains information about manipulating
-characters and strings using character sets larger than will fit in
-the usual @code{char} data type.
-
-@item
-@ref{Locales}, describes how selecting a particular country
-or language affects the behavior of the library.  For example, the locale
-affects collation sequences for strings and how monetary values are
-formatted.
-
-@item
 @ref{Non-Local Exits}, contains descriptions of the @code{setjmp} and
 @code{longjmp} functions.  These functions provide a facility for
 @code{goto}-like jumps which can jump from one function to another.
@@ -1435,6 +1475,15 @@ various operating system limits.  Most of these parameters are provided for
 compatibility with POSIX.
 
 @item
+@ref{Language Features}, contains information about library support for
+standard parts of the C language, including things like the @code{sizeof}
+operator and the symbolic constant @code{NULL}, how to write functions
+accepting variable numbers of arguments, and constants describing the
+ranges and other properties of the numerical types.  There is also a simple
+debugging mechanism which allows you to put assertions in your code, and
+have diagnostic messages printed if the tests fail.
+
+@item
 @ref{Library Summary}, gives a summary of all the functions, variables, and
 macros in the library, with complete data types and function prototypes,
 and says what standard or system each is derived from.
---

Cheers,
Carlos.