Re: problem with groff.texi: @ref{} in PDF and HTML fomats

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Sun, 26 Apr 2020 16:28:52 +1000
> From: "G. Branden Robinson" <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden
> 
> We have the following paragraph in our groff.texi file:
> 
>       The following lists some built-in registers that are not
>       described elsewhere in this manual.  Any register that begins
>       with a @samp{.} is read-only.  A complete listing of all
>       built-in registers can be found in @ref{Register Index}.
> 
> This seems to render incorrectly in PDF and HTML formats, using the
> Debian packages for Texinfo 6.5 and 6.7[1].

I think the problem is in the source, it should use something like
this instead:

   @xref{Register Index}, for a complete listing of all built-in
   registers.

IOW, when people write Texinfo, they should keep in mind how the
result will look in various output formats.