[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #56929] csvread help text xref to dlmread appears confusingly when displayed in info format

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Update of bug #56929 (project octave):

                Severity:                1 - Wish => 3 - Normal             
              Item Group:         Feature Request => Documentation          
                 Summary: Csvread help text xref to dlmread doesn’t parse
right => csvread help text xref to dlmread appears confusingly when displayed
in info format

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Follow-up Comment #3:

This is just the way the @xref, @pxref macros in Texinfo behave.  In formats
like PDF and HTML, Texinfo creates a link and writes "see LINK_TEXT".  The
underlying link location is not displayed.

In info format, you get what you have seen.  First, bold format is replaced in
plain text by


*note: 


And then texinfo lists the link text (dlmread) and the link itself
(XREFdlmread).  The link works as expected.  If you cursor over it and then
hit <RETURN> the info program will take you to the documentation for dlmread.

If this is really bothersome, you could write a texinfo macro which does
something different.  The file doc/interpreter/macros.texi contains an example
for the @seealso macro.   


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