Re: Macro @notation in the LM

[Graham Percival]

On Wed, 02 Jan 2008 19:41:56 +0200
Till Rettig <address@hidden> wrote:

> John Mandereau schrieb:
> >
> > If I understand well the purpose of @notation well (see
> > Documentation/user/writing-texinfo.txt), this macro is used to mark
> > phrases from music notation terminology.  As this is an identity
> > macro (it exactly returns its argument), you can of course
> > translate its contents directly in the translated Texinfo file,
> > unless Graham plans to make this macro more complicated -- anyway,
> > this macro will not use @ref or anything similar, because @notation
> > is heavily used at middle of sentences.
> >
> > When updating any translations in user/, it's highly recommended to
> > update macros.itexi first.
> >   
> ok, this sounds reasonable. It can then be used to have some special 
> formatting of the terminology, I this is wanted.

Actually, it already does so... in the English docs, at least.
@var{NAME}
prints the material in italics.  Judging from the comment in
macro.itely, it seems to produce something ugly in the info docs,
though.

Cheers,
- Graham