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<span id="g_t_0040inforef_003a-Cross_002dreferences-to-Info_002donly-Material"></span><h3 class="section">6.9 <code>@inforef</code>: Cross-references to Info-only Material</h3>
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<p><code>@inforef</code> is used for making cross-references to Info
documents—even from a printed manual. This might be because you
want to refer to conditional <code>@ifinfo</code> text
(see <a href="Conditionals.html">Conditionals</a>), or because printed output is not available
(perhaps because there is no Texinfo source), among other
possibilities.
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<p>The command takes either two or three arguments, in the following
order:
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<li> The node name.
</li><li> The cross-reference name (optional).
</li><li> The Info file name.
</li></ol>
<p>The template is:
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<pre class="example">@inforef{<var>node-name</var>, <var>cross-reference-name</var>, <var>info-file-name</var>}
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<p>For example,
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<pre class="example">@inforef{Advanced, Advanced Info commands, info},
for more information.
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<p>produces (in Info):
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<pre class="example">*Note Advanced Info commands: (info)Advanced,
for more information.
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<p>and (in the printed output):
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<p>See Info file <samp>info</samp>, node ‘<samp>Advanced</samp>’, for more information.
</p></blockquote>
<p>(This particular example is not realistic, since the Info manual is
written in Texinfo, so all formats are available. In fact, we don’t
know of any extant Info-only manuals.)
</p>
<p>The converse of <code>@inforef</code> is <code>@cite</code>, which is used to
refer to printed works for which no Info form exists.
See <a href="_0040cite.html"><code>@cite</code></a>.
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