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Re: inforef


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: inforef
Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2004 07:10:23 +0200

> Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2004 21:45:58 -0600 (CST)
> From: Luc Teirlinck <address@hidden>
> Cc: Dave Love <address@hidden>, address@hidden
> 
> The documentation of @inforef in `(texinfo)inforef' is somewhat
> unclear.  I personally interpret it as meaning that @inforef is meant
> to be used when no _published_ manual is available, even though the
> user can produce printed output himself using texi2dvi.  Others
> interpret it as meaning that no printed output can be produced
> because, for instance, the info file was not produced from Texinfo
> source.

It's neither of these two, actually.  @inforef exists for those
situations where you, for some reason, want to point to the Info
manual even in the printed version of the manual.  For example, it's
possible that only an Info version contains some text that you want to
point to (e.g., text that was in @address@hidden ifinfo in the manual to
which you point.

So the documentation of @inforef does not need to be as clear-cut as
you are asking for, because the circumstances of its use can vary.





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