Re: conditional macros problem

[email protected] (Karl Berry) Wed, 23 Feb 2005 19:36:29 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.comp.tex.texinfo.pretest
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    What do you think about having two macros, say, @NewMacro and
    @NewMacroWithActiveNewline to handle those issues in a clean way?

May be necessary to resort to that.  But if a macro needs both active
and normal newlines ... maybe the answer is an @newline{} (or whatever)
command which means "active newline".  Hmm.  Have to try.

    > @newmacro @bigmac @arg1,@arg2,@arg3{...whatever...}

    Ugly.  Why not using TeX syntax directly?

Obviously desirable for TeX.  Not desirable for makeinfo, or from the
standpoint of the Texinfo language design (such as it is), since it's a
new argument specification syntax not otherwise used.  Again, may be
necessary to resort to that, nevertheless.

Thanks for the ideas.
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