Re: Feature request - a plain @ref command

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Ralph Schleicher <address@hidden>
> Date: Sun, 05 Mar 2017 07:51:08 +0100
> 
> > The "*note" part is what tells the Info reader that what follows is a
> > cross-reference.  If you take that away, how can the Info reader
> > distinguish between the rest and just plain text elsewhere in the
> > manual?
> >
> > IOW, the fundamental problem here is that the Info format doesn't have
> > any markup to designate certain parts as hyper-links.  That's why it
> > needs "*note".
> 
> The Info format has a "special directive" for including images.
> Wouldn't it be possible to add a similar "special directive" for
> references?

Maybe, although it might not be trivial, since the Info format should
be almost ASCII.

In any case, this is not just a question of what to generate for a
cross-reference.