Re: texi2dvi doesn't seem to produce correct crossed-references

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Grzegorz Adam Hankiewicz <address@hidden>
> Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2000 23:40:31 +0200 (CEST)
> 
> Here goes the bug report:

Thank you for your report.

> I can run makeinfo --no-split allegro.texi and get allegro.inf which is a
> correct info file with proper cross-references. When I run texi2dvi on the
> .texi file, I get loads of errors of undefined cross-references

I think there's a problem in allegro.texi as far as cross-references
are concerned: the nodes don't have any sectioning directives, such as
@chapter or @section.  Without these directives, TeX will not be able
to produce cross-references, since TeX ignores @node's for that
purpose.  (I believe this is explained in the Texinfo manual.)

> In the end, I would like to know why the info version of the sent texi
> file works ok, but not the output of texi2dvi. Wasn't texi supposed to
> generate correctly both online and printed documentation?

For both versions to be correct, you need to observe the rules
outlined in the Texinfo manual.  In particular, both @node and
sectioning commands need to be present.