Re: Unadorned cross-references

[Augusto Stoffel]

On Mon, 31 May 2021 at 19:05, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:

>> From: Augusto Stoffel <arstoffel@gmail.com>
>> Date: Mon, 31 May 2021 09:56:33 +0200
>> 
>> I would like to suggest adding a command to Texinfo, as well as some
>> markup in the .info file format, to create unadorned cross-references,
>> that is, without the assumption that the cross reference fits in a
>> phrase like "see such and such".
>
> Given that Info is text-based format, how do you propose to do that?

I'll give a bit more detail in the next message, but why being
text-based impose any significant limitation?

With pandoc, I'm pretty sure one can convert Python's manual from rst to
org format, and have a pretty decent pure-text rendering on Emacs,
hyperlink included, with no "see" where one shouldn't see it.