Re: @ref without page numbers

[Christopher Dimech]

Dear Gavin,

Have now tested your modification of texinfo.tex to remove the page
number and if works.

I also put the page number as a superscript.  It is easy to do, and
independently of whether customary or not, it does solve particular
problems if you could be so kind to put the options to do them.

With the appended 'p', it should not conflict with footnotes.
Furthermore as seen in the subscript commands 1. and 2., because the
page number it after close right bracket ']' and before the comma ','
of the reference, people would not confuse it with a footnote.  Appending
the letter 'p' could act as abbreviation if people think it is really
necessary.

1. Like this

\turnoffactive \sup{\refx{#1-pg}{}}%

2. and like this

\turnoffactive \sup{p\refx{#1-pg}{}}%


      %\ifoutputpagenumberinxref
        % But we always want a comma and a space:
        %,\space
        %
        % output the `page 3'.
        %\turnoffactive \putwordpage\tie\sup\refx{#1-pg}{}%
        \turnoffactive \sup{p\refx{#1-pg}{}}%
        % Add a , if xref followed by a space
        \if\space\noexpand\tokenafterxref ,%
        \else\ifx\  \tokenafterxref ,% @TAB
        \else\ifx\*\tokenafterxref ,%   @*
        \else\ifx\  \tokenafterxref ,%   @SPACE
        \else\ifx\  \tokenafterxref ,%    @NL
        \else\ifx\tie\tokenafterxref ,% @tie
        \fi\fi\fi\fi\fi\fi
      %\fi




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Christopher Dimech
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> Sent: Friday, October 23, 2020 at 11:44 PM
> From: "Gavin Smith" <gavinsmith0123@gmail.com>
> To: "Christopher Dimech" <dimech@gmx.com>
> Cc: "help-texinfo gnu" <help-texinfo@gnu.org>
> Subject: Re: @ref without page numbers
>
> On Fri, Oct 23, 2020 at 10:40:52PM +0200, Christopher Dimech wrote:
> > Dear Gavin,
> >
> > You are quite right, if the manual is printed, one needs the page numbers.
> >
> > I would be satisfied with an option in which the page number is printed
> > as a superscript @sup{page-no} (similar to footnote numbers) next to the
> > closing square bracket.
> >
> > That is, from this
> >
> > Section 1.13 [Intactv-Function], page 11,
> >
> > to this
> >
> > Section 1.13 [Intactv-Function]@sup{11},
> >
> > The would solve the problem, yet keep requirements intact.
> >
> > Regards
> > Christopher
>
> There's no precedent for this - this looks like a footnote reference.
> Would it not be simpler to miss out the page number, as in my patch
> here?
>
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-texinfo/2016-11/msg00048.html
>