Pdf are very important in business settings, and because Texinfo allows inclusion of mathematical expression (through @math, @tex), the pdf output is very useful.
Regards Christopher > Sent: Friday, October 23, 2020 at 10:05 PM > From: "Gavin Smith" <[email protected]> > To: "Christopher Dimech" <[email protected]> > Cc: "help-texinfo gnu" <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: @ref without page numbers > > On Fri, Oct 23, 2020 at 09:18:12PM +0200, Christopher Dimech wrote: > > I could not follow it very well. > > > > My problem occurs in pdf output. How is the page number important, is > > there notion > > of page number in other formats, not just only on pdf? How are links and > > page numbers > > related? Can one do anything for the pdf case only? > > If the manual is printed on paper, the page number is needed for the > reader to look up the cross-reference. > > This issue has been discussed in the past: > > https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-texinfo/2016-11/msg00029.html > https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-texinfo/2016-11/msg00036.html > > (BTW the discussion containing that message goes into a lot of other > extraneous matters - please try and keep discussion germane to the > issue at hand.) > >
