Re: Emacs setup assistants

[David Kastrup]

Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:

>     @title Configuring Gnus for reading news
>     @node Server name and port
>     @variable server :string (gnus-getenv-nntpserver)
>     @variable port :number 119
>     @validate
>     (let ((stream
> 
> This would require changes in Texinfo, which would
> make it very hard.
> 
> Can you design it to use existing Texinfo constructs?  For instance,
> just use @example instead of @validate.  Use @defopt instead of
> @variable.

I don't see the problem.  One can easily include a macro file that
defines replacements for all of the above when one does a conversion
to printed form or HTML or such.

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum