Re: removing NO_USE_SETFILENAME and USE_UP_NODE_FOR_ELEMENT_UP

[Gavin Smith]

On Wed, Apr 03, 2024 at 05:09:28PM +0200, Patrice Dumas wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I would like to remove two customization options:
> 
> NO_USE_SETFILENAME
> If set, do not use @setfilename to set the document name; instead, base the
> output document name only on the input file name. The default is false.
> 
> USE_UP_NODE_FOR_ELEMENT_UP
> Fill in up sectioning direction with node direction when there is no 
> sectioning
> up direction. In practice this can only happen when there is no @top section.
> Not set by default.
> 
> 
> These customization options are set when TEXI2HTML is set.  I think that
> they were added for the purpose of compatibility with texi2html.
> However, beside strict compatibility with texi2html (which was an
> important feature to have in 2010, but is not relevant today), I do not
> think that these customizations options are useful, even for users who
> would want compatibility with texi2html, as there are many ways to set
> setfilename and the USE_UP_NODE_FOR_ELEMENT_UP option is not clearly
> useful (or even confusing).
> 
> Unless there is some feedback, I will remove those variables soon.

I'm happy with these being removed.