[Po4a-devel] [help-texinfo] @xref best practices for i18n/l10n

Eli Zaretskii eliz at gnu.org
Sat Sep 23 06:15:02 UTC 2017


> From: Jean-Christophe Helary <jean.christophe.helary at gmail.com>
> Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2017 07:19:27 +0900
> Cc: po4a-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org
> 
> > Use @ref instead of @xref if you need to be flexible with the word 
> > order.
> 
> According to the documentation @ref generates a "*note" verb at the beginning of the reference in the info manual.

That "*note" is a special marker for the Info reader which indicates
that a reference follows.  The fact that in English it reads as a
borderline-normative phrase is just a coincidence ;-)




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