On Friday, March 20, 2020 12:12:35 PM CET Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote: > The autosectionlabel extension is nice, as it allows to refer to > a section by its name without requiring any extra tag to create > a reference name. > > However, on its default, it has two serious problems: > > 1) the namespace is global. So, two files with different > "introduction" section would create a label with the > same name. This is easily solvable by forcing the extension > to prepend the file name with: > > autosectionlabel_prefix_document = True > > 2) It doesn't work hierarchically. So, if there are two level 1 > sessions (let's say, one labeled "open" and another one "ioctl") > and both have a level 2 "synopsis" label, both section 2 will > have the same identical name. > > Currently, there's no way to tell Sphinx to create an > hierarchical reference like: > > open / synopsis > ioctl / synopsis > > This causes around 800 warnings. So, the fix should be to > not let autosectionlabel to produce references for anything > that it is not at level one, with: > > autosectionlabel_maxdepth = 1 So, for level 1 headers is fine to use autosectionlabel, but if we want to refer to level 2,3... we have to create labels manually. Fine with me
