On 04/06/2015 10:58 AM, Christophe CURIS wrote:
> The texinfo format provides 3 commands @ref, @xref and @pxref to make cross
> references to existing @nodes in the document; it also provides a command
> @anchor to place arbitrary targets for cross-reference.
>
> Because these will be handy for the Installation Manual that already does
> some references, this patch implements the 4 commands:
>
>   - change the '@node' command, that did nothing, to now track potential
> reference points;
>
>   - add the '@anchor' command to register a new target for x-ref;
>
>   - implement the 3 '@*ref' commands with similar behaviour as the texinfo
> format states, with support for all arguments, generating a temporary
> "@x##@" pattern for the line target;
>
>   - generate a new file (*.xrf, a sed script) at the end with the
> replacement for x-ref patterns with the correct line number, and perform
> a few consistency checks;
>
>   - during the final search-and-replace used to insert the Table of Content,
> include the x-ref replacement.
>
> The current script has some limitations:
>   - because we cannot know in advance the target line number for the x-ref,
> we insert it with a constant size of 5 characters to avoid breaking the
> justification alignment when doing the replace;
>
>   - there is a strict order to respect between @node and @chapter/@section,
> which is needed because we have to include a line offset to get it right
> when using the order given in the texinfo manual.
>

There must be some GNU extensions in here somewhere, as I get the 
following error without gawk when running the script on Compilation.texi:

Error: cross reference to undefined node/anchor "ConfigureOptions" found 
at line 227

Doug

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