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<span id="g_t_0040xref-with-Two-Arguments"></span><h4 class="subsection">6.4.2 <code>@xref</code> with Two Arguments</h4>
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<p>With two arguments, the second is used as a label for the online output.
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<p>The template is like this:
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<pre class="example">@xref{<var>node-name</var>, <var>online-label</var>}.
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<p>For example,
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<pre class="example">@xref{Electrical Effects, Lightning}.
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<p>produces:
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<pre class="example">*Note Lightning: Electrical Effects.
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<p>in Info and
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<p>See Section 5.2 [Electrical Effects], page 57.
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<p>in a printed manual, where the node name is printed.
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<p>The second argument to cross-references must observe some of the
restrictions for node names (see <a href="Node-Line-Requirements.html">Node Line Requirements</a>). The
most common issue is that colons cannot be used, since that interferes
with the parsing of the Info file.
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