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> Subject: Re: @ref without page numbers
>
> On Fri, Oct 23, 2020 at 10:40:52PM +0200, Christopher Dimech wrote:
> > Dear Gavin,
> >
> > You are quite right, if the manual is printed, one needs the page numbers.
> >
> > I would be satis
> From: Christopher Dimech
> Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2020 23:00:40 +0200
> Cc: help-texinfo gnu
>
> Pdf are very important in business settings, and because Texinfo allows
> inclusion of mathematical expression (through @math, @tex), the pdf output
> is very useful.
Texinfo doesn't have a separate
I agree with your evaluation Patrice.
> Sent: Saturday, October 24, 2020 at 1:56 AM
> From: "Patrice Dumas"
> To: "Karl Berry"
> Cc: dim...@gmx.com, help-texinfo@gnu.org
> Subject: Re: @ref without page numbers
>
> On Fri, Oct 23, 2020 at 04:41:30PM
On Fri, Oct 23, 2020 at 04:41:30PM -0600, Karl Berry wrote:
> Christopher, if you want to write full technical documents with lots of
> references, math, etc., why don't you just use LaTeX? Texinfo is not
> designed for this. Trying to shoehorn it to fit seems fraught with problems.
LaTeX is not
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> Sent: Saturday, October 24, 2020 at 12:41 AM
> From: "Karl Berry"
> To: dim...@gmx.com
> Cc: gavinsmith0...@gmail.com, help-texinfo@gnu.org
>
Christopher, if you want to write full technical documents with lots of
references, math, etc., why don't you just use LaTeX? Texinfo is not
designed for this. Trying to shoehorn it to fit seems fraught with problems.
Using @ref for bibliography entries seems like a problem in the first
place.
"help-texinfo gnu"
> Subject: Re: @ref without page numbers
>
> On Fri, Oct 23, 2020 at 10:40:52PM +0200, Christopher Dimech wrote:
> > Dear Gavin,
> >
> > You are quite right, if the manual is printed, one needs the page numbers.
> >
> > I would be sa
On Fri, Oct 23, 2020 at 10:40:52PM +0200, Christopher Dimech wrote:
> Dear Gavin,
>
> You are quite right, if the manual is printed, one needs the page numbers.
>
> I would be satisfied with an option in which the page number is printed
> as a superscript @sup{page-no} (similar to footnote
her Dimech"
> Cc: "help-texinfo gnu"
> Subject: Re: @ref without page numbers
>
> On Fri, Oct 23, 2020 at 09:18:12PM +0200, Christopher Dimech wrote:
> > I could not follow it very well.
> >
> > My problem occurs in pdf output. How is the page numbe
elp-texinfo gnu"
> Subject: Re: @ref without page numbers
>
> On Fri, Oct 23, 2020 at 09:18:12PM +0200, Christopher Dimech wrote:
> > I could not follow it very well.
> >
> > My problem occurs in pdf output. How is the page number important, is
> > there notio
On Fri, Oct 23, 2020 at 09:18:12PM +0200, Christopher Dimech wrote:
> I could not follow it very well.
>
> My problem occurs in pdf output. How is the page number important, is there
> notion
> of page number in other formats, not just only on pdf? How are links and
> page numbers
> related?
020 at 8:42 PM
> From: "Gavin Smith"
> To: "Christopher Dimech"
> Cc: "help-texinfo gnu"
> Subject: Re: @ref without page numbers
>
> On Fri, Oct 23, 2020 at 03:42:11PM +0200, Christopher Dimech wrote:
> >
> > Although it is useful t
On Fri, Oct 23, 2020 at 03:42:11PM +0200, Christopher Dimech wrote:
>
> Although it is useful to have @ref followed by page numbers, page
> numbers can make the text very difficult to follow when there there
> are two or more references cluttered together, or when the same
> reference is used
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