Re: No such node or ancher

Eli Zaretskii <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.tex.texinfo.general
Message-ID <[email protected]> 
> Date: Sun, 11 Jul 2021 18:38:18 +0200 (CEST)
> From: excalamus--- via Users list for the Texinfo documentation system <[email protected]>
> 
> I'm trying to create an @xref to an @anchor.  When clicking the reference, Emacs says,
> 
> "No such node or anchor: x-spot"
> 
> I have taken the sample file from (texinfo) Short Sample Texinfo File and copied the anchor example given in (texinfo) @anchor.  I put the anchor command in Chapter 1 and the reference in the Index.  makeinfo complains about no VERSION or UPDATED flags, but is otherwise silent.  Clicking on the reference takes me to Top and displays the error message.  I would expect it to take me to the anchor.  Am I doing something wrong?

I cannot reproduce this with Texinfo 6.8: your file works for me
(after I @set VERSION and UPDATED and convert the NBSP characters to
spaces).

Which version of Texinfo do you have, and which version of Emacs?
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