Re: Adding xreflable

On Fri, May 22, 2020 at 12:09:18PM +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> On 2020-05-15 18:47, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > Done.  Thanks for the tips.
> 
> This doesn't seem right.  By adding xreflabels you are changing the
> appearance for all links pointing to the target, not only from the release
> notes.  For example, if you now do
> 
>     see <xref linkend="vacuum-basics"/> and <xref linkend="autovacuum"/>
> 
> which are both sect2s in the same chapter, then you get a rendered text of
> 
>     see Section 24.1.1 and autovacuum
> 
> which is bizarre.
> 
> If you want the link appearance to change only in the release notes, then
> the right approach is to use the <link> tag, as was done before.

Ugh, I see what you mean.  I have read doc/src/sgml/README.links many
times and still get confused.  What you are saying is that if there is
no xreflabel on a target, you can get the chapter/section via <xref> or
specify text via <link>.  But, if there is an xreflabel on the target,
you can't get the chapter/section anymore --- you can only get the
xreflabel via <xref>, or specify text via <link>, right?

I added 13 xreflabels in commits 85af628da5 and 75fcdd2ae2.  What I am
thinking of doing is to look at all references to the id's associated
with those xreflabels and remove the xreflabel if the chapter/section
is required, and if not, convert <link> to <xref> where the link text
matches the xreflabel.  Does that sound like a good plan?

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