Re: Unadorned cross-references

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Augusto Stoffel <arstoffel@gmail.com>
> Cc: gavinsmith0123@gmail.com,  bug-texinfo@gnu.org
> Date: Tue, 01 Jun 2021 18:18:57 +0200
> 
> The point is that Texinfo is a perfectly capable system, but you can't
> convert documents made in other markup languages to Texinfo (and
> therefore Info) format.  Consequently, you can't use the Emacs Info
> browser, which is a nice and perfectly capable tool, to read
> documentation not written in Texinfo.

Yes, you can: use macros to produce different output in HTML and Info.
Gavin suggested that up-thread.

> Moreover, the above is not due to any fundamental issue, but rather to
> the very prosaic problem that Texinfo is missing a plain cross-reference
> markup.

You are trying to do with Info what it never was designed to do.  So
yes, the issue _is_ fundamental.