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Re: [help-texinfo] preferred way to change output for a macro
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Karl Berry |
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Re: [help-texinfo] preferred way to change output for a macro |
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Mon, 29 Apr 2013 22:46:26 GMT |
me to view @whatever intentionally rather than imperatively
It is! The whole meaning of "intensional" typesetting is that you don't
care what the output is. @var means "metasyntactic variable", so it
should be used that way. I'm sure we're in agreement on that :).
It's when you want to impose a particular format on the output that
things become "imperative". Of course it is not unreasonable to want a
different style (especially for something as quasi-standard as angle
brackets for metavars), it is simply beyond what Texinfo was originally
designed to do.
All output customizations are a break with the original idea of "say
what it is and not how you want it to look". As I said in another
thread yesterday, Texinfo was never intended to be a general-purpose
typesetting language where you can get output of whatever kind is
desired.
Anyway, Patrice and I are discussing again the warning when redefining
Texinfo commands.
Best,
karl
- Re: [help-texinfo] preferred way to change output for a macro, (continued)
- Re: [help-texinfo] preferred way to change output for a macro, Karl Berry, 2013/04/26
- Re: [help-texinfo] preferred way to change output for a macro, Robert Dodier, 2013/04/26
- Re: [help-texinfo] preferred way to change output for a macro, Patrice Dumas, 2013/04/27
- Re: [help-texinfo] preferred way to change output for a macro, Robert Dodier, 2013/04/27
- Re: [help-texinfo] preferred way to change output for a macro, Patrice Dumas, 2013/04/28
- Re: [help-texinfo] preferred way to change output for a macro, Karl Berry, 2013/04/28
- Re: [help-texinfo] preferred way to change output for a macro, Patrice Dumas, 2013/04/29
- Re: [help-texinfo] preferred way to change output for a macro, Patrice Dumas, 2013/04/29
- Re: [help-texinfo] preferred way to change output for a macro, Karl Berry, 2013/04/28
- Re: [help-texinfo] preferred way to change output for a macro, Robert Dodier, 2013/04/29
- Re: [help-texinfo] preferred way to change output for a macro,
Karl Berry <=