Hi Gavin and other Texinfo mavens, I've encountered the following issue with groff's Texinfo manual and am seeking advice or, if it's a bug, a fix.
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].
Info/Text output:
A complete listing of all built-in registers can be found in
*note Register Index::.
Apart from info's idiosyncratic cross-reference notation, the above
seems fine.
HTML output:
A complete listing of all built-in registers can be found in see
Register Index.
Here, the "see" is superfluous. This could be attributed to misuse of
the @ref macro in the source, but then we have...
PDF output:
A complete listing of all built-in registers can be found in see
tie E [Register Index], page 235.
Appendix E is the correct reference but the injected "tie" screams out
to me a mal-expanded @tie{} macro.
Let me know if there is more information I can usefully provide.
Regards,
Branden
[1] I attempted to compile Texinfo from source out of git, but
encountered compilation errors on both HEAD and the 6.7 tags. Let me
know if you'd like a report.
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