On Thu, Nov 27, 2025 at 03:38:37PM +0100, Rik wrote: > The preference among the Octave developers I polled was for the > existing/historical style of presenting link text and link page numbers. > But, "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder" and I have no doubt that someone > finds the other style more attractive. > > Would it be possible to support both formats using a Customization Variable > (CV)? My macro skills aren't up to the full challenge of creating a new CV, > but I did create a proof-of-concept patch for texinfo.tex where I re-used > the existing CV @allowcodebreaks to switch between creating hyperlinks for > text+page numbers and hyperlinks for just page numbers. See attached files. > > Obviously, a real variable with a better name would be needed. I had the > idea of @linkindextext and it could default to true so users really wanting > this feature would get it without further configuration.
I've made this the default. You can get the links back with "@set txilinkindextext". (This follows the pattern of other internal and/or undocumented options that apply to texinfo.tex only.) Looking back at old mail, it seems that users weren't actually asking for the index text to be made a hyperlink. (I made the change in February 2025.) Another argument not to make the link by default is that the link goes to the top of the page, rather than the exact location on the page where the index entry was made.
