> From: "Christopher Dimech" <dim...@gmx.com> > Cc: "Patrice Dumas" <pertu...@free.fr>, help-texinfo@gnu.org > Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2019 19:30:55 +0200 > > In what context do you use the second argument and what does it do > exactly? As Patrice said it does nothing for pdf. My understanding > is that one uses it for display purposes and not for directing to > a node or an anchor.
It is useful in on-line formats, such as Info, when you want the hyper-link displayed to the user say something other than the node name. See the example in the "Two Arguments" node of the Texinfo manual: it shows the results in the Info and PDF formats.
