On Thu, 3 Jun 2021 at 10:45, Patrice Dumas <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 01, 2021 at 06:18:57PM +0200, Augusto Stoffel wrote:
>>
>> Moreover, the above is not due to any fundamental issue, but rather to
>> the very prosaic problem that Texinfo is missing a plain cross-reference
>> markup.
>
> I may be missing something, but it seems to me that @ref{} is more or
> less the plain cross-reference markup command in Texinfo (in addition to
> @url{}).
This is a good point. However, @ref and @xref generate the same output
in the info files, which is problematic.
Thus, the example in the @ref entry of the manual, namely
For more information, @pxref{This}, and @ref{That}.
renders as follows in Emacs:
For more information, see This, and see That.
while the author's intention was to say
For more information, see This, and That.
Can we agree this is a problem?
> Info is a different issue, the cross-references are described formally in
> https://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/manual/texinfo/html_node/Info-Format-Cross-Reference.html
> and indeed, there is no plain cross-reference.
I hope the above example convinces people that this is an undesirable
limitation, even if Texinfo is "done" and will not be fixed.
