Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2000 14:46:30 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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To: salvador <salvador AT inti DOT gov DOT ar>
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Subject: Re: LFN problem with info ?
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On Wed, 2 Feb 2000, salvador wrote:

> The problem is that
> texinfo 4.0 included a new type of records in the indirect tag table. They say
> "Ref:" instead of "Node:".

Yes, this is a new feature introduced with Texinfo 4.0.

> I didn't investigate how they differ from "Node:"
> entries, so I just load the reference as yet another node reference.

That is the right thing to do.

> Eli: Do you know what exactly Ref means?

Ref is a reference to an anchor.  You can now put anchors into the 
Texinfo source, like this:

	@anchor{An anchor}

and then cause the Info reader to jump to this specific location from a 
cross-reference:

	@xref{An anchor}.

The advantage of an anchor is that its Ref entry in the tag table points 
*exactly* to the location you should go to.  In contrast, with a 
cross-reference that references a node name, you only know to what node 
to jump, and have then to implement some sort of heuristics to find a 
better place than just the beginning of the node.

> P.S. I forgot the InfView announcement because I release it with the editor (is
> in fact another target of the same makefiles).

And I forgot to tell about the new anchor feature, and alert users to 
upgrade to the latest Info viewers.