> From: Ralph Schleicher <[email protected]> > Date: Sun, 05 Mar 2017 07:51:08 +0100 > > > The "*note" part is what tells the Info reader that what follows is a > > cross-reference. If you take that away, how can the Info reader > > distinguish between the rest and just plain text elsewhere in the > > manual? > > > > IOW, the fundamental problem here is that the Info format doesn't have > > any markup to designate certain parts as hyper-links. That's why it > > needs "*note". > > The Info format has a "special directive" for including images. > Wouldn't it be possible to add a similar "special directive" for > references?
Maybe, although it might not be trivial, since the Info format should be almost ASCII. In any case, this is not just a question of what to generate for a cross-reference.
