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Re: Make @ovar and @dvar usable outside @defmac
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Eric Blake |
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Re: Make @ovar and @dvar usable outside @defmac |
Date: |
Thu, 10 Jul 2008 15:03:52 +0000 (UTC) |
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Loom/3.14 (http://gmane.org/) |
Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues <at> gmx.de> writes:
>
> Within @defmac lines, there is no problem with additional whitespace:
> makeinfo removes that. However, @ovar and @dvar are useful outside
> @defmac lines, too, even though the comment above the macro definitions
> does not imply it. While they are not used like that in the Autoconf
> manual (yet), I would like to reuse them in a couple of other manuals.
> So I'm removing the trailing newline thusly.
Thanks; I'll have to update m4's manual, which borrowed these macros from
autoconf. Are these two macros useful enough to propose adding them as texinfo
primitives on the bug-texinfo list, so we don't have to copy-n-paste it to all
manuals where they are useful?
--
Eric Blake