From: Jean-Christophe Helary
<jean.christophe.helary(a)gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2017 07:19:27 +0900
Cc: po4a-devel(a)lists.alioth.debian.org
> Use @ref instead of @xref if you need to be flexible with the word
> order.
According to the documentation @ref generates a "*note" verb at the beginning
of the reference in the info manual.
That "*note" is a special marker for the Info reader which indicates
that a reference follows. The fact that in English it reads as a
borderline-normative phrase is just a coincidence ;-)