Re: texi2any's equivalent for texi2html's option `--short-ref`

[Gavin Smith]

On Thu, Jan 06, 2022 at 04:56:34PM +0000, Werner LEMBERG wrote:
> 
> `texi2html` had an option `--short-ref` that removed the word
> 'section' in link texts (version 1.82 had also the unfortunate side
> effect of removing tags like `<code>...</code>` from the link texts,
> but this is another story).
> 
> Looking up the current git's info pages for texinfo I couldn't find an
> equivalent to that for `texi2any` while outputting HTML.  Has this
> feature been removed?

The manual says there is supposed to be a customization variable
SHORT_REF for this, but I could find no trace of it anywhere in the
source code.  It was formerly listed in @obsolete_variables in
tp/Texinfo/Common.pm, but not used for anything that I could see.

I don't understand what this option was supposed to have done; I checked
the HTML output from texi2any and the word "section" didn't appear in the
output for any cross-references.

I tried with both '@xrefautomaticsectiontitle on' and
'@xrefautomaticsectiontitle off' in the document.  So I don't understand
what your problem is.