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

[Gavin Smith]

On Mon, Nov 02, 2020 at 12:30:18AM +0100, Patrice Dumas wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 01, 2020 at 07:26:52PM +0100, Patrice Dumas wrote:
> > On Sun, Nov 01, 2020 at 11:40:56AM +0000, Gavin Smith wrote:
> > > On Sun, Nov 01, 2020 at 01:37:04AM +0100, Patrice Dumas wrote:
> > 
> > >   In that case, 
> > > > _default_node_direction() should probably be changed, to give something 
> > > > reasonable when there is no node associated with the section.  Actually,
> > > > it would probably make more sense to use sections for directions if
> > > > USE_NODES is set to 0.
> > > 
> > > I haven't investigated what happens currently but this might make sense
> > > so that the section has "Next" and "Prev" links.
> > 
> > Ok.  I will probably try to do something for that case.
> 
> Here is what I propose.  We add a new variable, like
> USE_NODES_DIRECTIONS.  It can be set to 1, 0, or undef, the default.
> If undef it follows USE_NODES. 

Do  you mean that it takes the same value as USE_NODES?  That sounds OK.
> 
> If  USE_NODES_DIRECTIONS is true, use the same code as today, if it is 
> false, use the section directions instead of the nodes directions in
> _default_node_direction (this function would be renamed too).
> 
> Does it looks good?

I'm OK with it if you think it is necessary.  I would call it
USE_NODE_DIRECTIONS instead.