In what context do you use the second argument and what does it do exactly? As Patrice said it does nothing for pdf. My understanding is that one uses it for display purposes and not for directing to a node or an anchor.
> Sent: Monday, July 22, 2019 at 5:25 PM > From: "Eli Zaretskii" <[email protected]> > To: "Patrice Dumas" <[email protected]> > Cc: [email protected], [email protected] > Subject: Re: [help-texinfo] Using @ref with two arguments > > > Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2019 16:49:50 +0200 > > From: Patrice Dumas <[email protected]> > > Cc: help-texinfo gnu <[email protected]> > > > > in general I would suggest not using an @*ref command with a non > > empty second argument. > > I don't understand why. FWIW, I use it quite a lot, and find it very > useful. >
