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Re: use directly section childs with sectiontoc, set USE_NODES 0 for HTM


From: Patrice Dumas
Subject: Re: use directly section childs with sectiontoc, set USE_NODES 0 for HTML
Date: Sun, 1 Nov 2020 23:05:00 +0100

On Sun, Nov 01, 2020 at 12:30:35PM +0000, Gavin Smith wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 01, 2020 at 12:13:12PM +0000, jai-bholeki wrote:
> > 
> > > I'm not sure how sensible it is to use @section without a @node or vice
> > > versa. A @node without a section wouldn't be in the section toc anyway,
> > > if I understand correctly.
> > 
> > @node makes a separate page.  If your sections are small, by simply
> > removing @node, you can get the sections together.
> 
> That's one thing people may use this for, and I've seen this in real
> documents (much more so than bare @nodes).  The @heading commands are also
> there and it's probably the correct way to use those instead.  But this
> would be an argument against changing USE_NODES to 0, as I understand that
> this would put each of the sections into a separate file anyway.

Ok, so let's forget about setting USE_NODES to 0 in the default case.

Maybe the fact that the sectiontoc may lead to node being unreachable if
they do not have associated section could be put in the manual?

-- 
Pat



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