Hello Gavin and Patrice,
>> `texi2html` had an option `--short-ref` [...]
>
> I had a look at the history and this customization never made to
> texi2any, however, previously if the reference was to a section,
> there was 'section'. This was removed in that commit
>
> https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/texinfo.git/commit/tp/Texinfo/Convert/HTML.pm?id=f97e44597dc6cda93c0bff607ce9599d6ea41069
Thanks a lot for your help and analysis. This is excactly what we
want for LilyPond. Right now we are stuck with texi2html 1.82 because
of a massive initialization file that doesn't translate easily to
newer versions of texinfo. The less stuff we have to adjust in a
forthcoming transition to a current texinfo version the happier we
are :-)
Werner
