Re: [help-texinfo] How to make a redirect to an existing item

[Gavin Smith]

On Sun, Aug 20, 2017 at 03:54:04AM -0400, Alfred M. Szmidt wrote:
>    > I have some documentation and one of the items is @deffn adjoint. I'd
>    > like to have another item, adjugate, of some type, which just says
>    > something like 'adjugate: see adjoint.'
>    > 
>    > Is there a kind of @foo that I could use for adjugate that's
>    > appropriate here? I guess I could make a @deffn adjugate and then have
>    > the body of the description just say 'see @xref{adjoint}' or something
>    > like that. But maybe this kind of redirection is already defined
>    > somehow.
> 
>    Unfortunately, there is no way to make an index entry refer to another 
>    one like this.
> 
> That isn't really right, @deffnx is the right way of doing this, and
> then one can use @anchor to define the reference.

Of course, you are right here. I was thinking of putting the 
cross-reference directly in the index entry, which isn't possible. If 
you have two items you want to document together, of course you can use 
@deffn and @deffnx. Thanks.