On Sun, Feb 16, 2025 at 01:00:24PM +0100, pertu...@free.fr wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 15, 2025 at 02:26:11PM +0000, Gavin Smith wrote:
> > @label could be ok for the command, but it could be confusing as there
> 
> Even without a confusion with LaTeX command, @label is confusing to be
> used as a target to cross references, because it is exactly the opposite
> of what seems to me to be used in general.  To me if there is something
> like
> 
> @labet label
> @section section
> 
> Then 'section' would be the label of a cross-reference to the label
> target. A target is an anchor, where it is placed.  Maybe @identifier
> could be better than @label?

Since the command is giving the name of an anchor, then @anchorname
would be appropriate.  It would make clear that it is doing the same
thing as @anchor:

@anchorname name
@section section

LaTeX uses the term "label" but as you say, this is confusing and we
don't need to do the same.

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