On Mon, Feb 17, 2025 at 07:37:23PM +0100, [email protected] wrote:
> One possibility, which is not very acceptable either would be to allow
> an empty @anchorname to remove the link between a @node and @heading,
> for example
>
> @node my node
>
> @quotation
> a quotation
> @end quotation
>
> @anchorname
> @heading heading
>
> but it is not very appealing either for many reasons.
Here is an alternative:
@node my node
@xrefname{my node}@c
@quotation
a quotation
@end quotation
@heading heading
The @xrefname would set the label text for linking to the last node or anchor.
Here it would take priority over "@heading" as it occurs earlier, and takes
the place of a section command, but does not produce a heading or anything
else.
With xrefautomaticsectiontitle on, (or similar setting that we introduce),
this command would often not be needed.
The user could also specify "@xrefautomaticsectiontitle on" and
"@xrefautomaticsectiontitle off" throughout the manual to get the
desired effect.
For links to anchors, the @xrefname would follow the @anchor:
@anchor{Butterfly}@xrefname{Papilon}.
This mirrors the order of @node and @section, with @section providing
the cross-reference text:
@node node
@section section
Now I just need to fiddle with texinfo.tex to see if this is possible.
(I think what I said before about it not being possible with @anchor
was wrong).
