Re: [help-texinfo] underlining a word?

[Gavin Smith]

On 27 November 2016 at 19:39, Gavin Smith <address@hidden> wrote:
> It would be nice to have some kind of extensibility mechanism. One way
> of doing this would be to add a command, for example @span, which
> could be passed through to the output format in some form, enabling
> further processing by tools to add styles to the marked text. For
> example, if the LaTeX backend is ever done, this would allow any of
> the styling options provided with LaTeX. Similarly for HTML and CSS.
> This proposal only covers text styling: someone was asking a few days
> ago about vertically centring images, which I can't think how it could
> be achieved in a good way: probably by marking the image in a way that
> would allow post-processing of the output after the Texinfo tools are
> finished.
>
> The idea here is to allow extensibility without implementing all of
> that in Texinfo, because that would be painful, probably not done very
> well and would always be incomplete.

Related proposal here:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-texinfo/2016-03/msg00025.html