On Mon, Jan 18, 2021 at 9:15 PM Leo Butler <[email protected]> wrote: > > Gavin Smith <[email protected]> writes: > > > As it happens, there was a hook recently added to texinfo.tex to omit > > the page number, which looks a lot like the patch you sent (change on > > 2020-11-17). If you say "@set txiomitrefpg" the page numbers won't be > > output. I've uploaded the newer texinfo.tex to ftp.gnu.org/gnu/texinfo > > now. This is still not documented anywhere. > > Hi Gavin, > > That hook does not work quite the way I would like. Since you only test > if txiomitrefpg is ever set, there is little discretion possible. What I > would like is the ability to selectively include (or exclude) page > refs. E.g. define > > \def\pagelessref#1{\txiomitrefpgtrue\ref{#1}} > \def\pagefulref#1{\txiomitrefpgfalse\ref{#1}} > > and intermingle their use.
You can clear the flag after you set it with "@clear txiomitrefpg". > In texinfo.tex, rather than > > \expandafter\ifx\csname SETtxiomitxrefpg\endcsname\relax > > have > > \iftxiomitrefpg Doing it with @set means we can avoid having to invent new Texinfo commands like @txiomitrefpgtrue etc.
