I think it's an aesthetic choice. Hmm. That doesn't seem like a good enough reason to break (or at best, complicate) every cross reference mechanism that has been devised since day one of Texinfo. If we provided the feature, we'd be implicitly recommending, or at least not denying it, and committing to making cross-references and any other features work with it. This does not seem like a good way to spend time merely to cater to an "aesthetic choice".
You guys can keep doing it, that's obviously up to you, but it doesn't seem like a good thing to provide for the Texinfo world as a whole. IMHO. -k
