@var just became @mvar in the texinfo documentation
Subject: @var just became @mvar in the texinfo documentation
From: Rupert Swarbrick
Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2013 01:06:51 +0100
Robert Dodier <robert.dodier at gmail.com> writes:
> On 2013-04-25, Raymond Toy <toy.raymond at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I think redefining a builtin thing is usually a bad idea.
>
> Disagreed in this case -- Texinfo's documentation says that @-commands
> indicate the kind of stuff in the curly braces, not the mark-up to be
> applied to it. Documentation goes on to say that different kinds of
> mark-up can be applied to the same stuff. That seems to imply that
> redefining @var etc is within the intended use of Texinfo.
>
> I'm opposed to the global replacement of @var by @mvar -- we need to try
> harder to figure out how to redefine @var for our needs.
Hmm. I guess I don't know enough about Texinfo to have a strong opinion
about this. Looking harder, maybe we can use "@unmacro var" to silence
the warning. But it seems odd to me to forgo the use Texinfo's built in
@var?
Anyway, if someone else wants to back out the relevant changes and try
out the @unmacro approach, feel free (obviously!). Otherwise I'll try to
do it by the weekend.
Since I've written all of about 100 lines of Texinfo documentation, I'm
definitely not qualified to have an opinion on its correct usage! :-)
Rupert
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