On Sun, Feb 02, 2025 at 03:29:11PM +0000, Gavin Smith wrote: > Your initial proposal to make '@set xrefautomaticsectiontitle on' use > the anchor text for the reference doesn't make sense, as the purpose > of this option is to use text that appears in the resulting document, > as Eli says. > > The problem with changing the output for a cross-reference to anchors > is that some manuals may be depending on the existing output, with > the anchor names used in HTML output. So I think we should change > the output in DVI/PDF instead to match the current HTML output, and > use the anchor names in the output text.
I see this was previously discussed, although I don't remember this: > In the anchor reference the corresponding section reference title is > shown. IMHO, this doesn't make much sense because it loses context > – in the example above, how shall the reader know that she has to > look for 'blubb'? A better solution is to use the anchor node name > if #3 of `@xref` is missing, inspite of `@xrefautomaticsectiontitle > on`. (Werner Lemberg, 2021-02-20) https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-texinfo/2021-02/msg00110.html
