Re: Cross reference in TeXinfo export

[Carsten Dominik <dominik@uva.nl>]

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Hi Nicolas,

thank you for that pointer.  I'll see if I can figure out what is going on
and if I can propose a solution.

Carsten

On Mon, Jul 15, 2019 at 12:10 PM Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr>
wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Carsten Dominik <dominik@uva.nl> writes:
>
> > I noticed that the link in the following line in org-guide.org
> >
> > This document is a much compressed derivative of the
> > [[info:org][comprehensive Org mode manual]].
> >
> >
> > gets turned into this in orgguide.texi
> >
> > @ref{Top,comprehensive Org mode manual,,org,}.
> >
> >
> > The PDF version of the guide then looks like this:
> >
> > This document is a much compressed derivative of the org.
> >
> >
> > So the link description in the PDF version is just "org", the name of the
> > info node.  I think the link text should be "comprehensive Org mode
> > manual".  Is anyone familiar enough with the texinfo exporter and texinfo
> > to fix this?
>
> Actually, this is not about the Texinfo exporter (ox-texinfo.el), but
> the library responsible for handling info links (ol-info.el).
>
> Maybe we should use
>
>     @ref{Top,comprehensive Org mode manual,,org,comprehensive Org mode
> manual}
>
> instead. But what should we do when a section is specified, e.g.,
>
>     @ref{Section Name, description,,org,}
>
> ?
>
> Regards,
>
> --
> Nicolas Goaziou
>
>

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