>> Honestly, I don't like that – what I want *does* transport
>> metaness! Using `@t` would demote this to a 'fancy font change to
>> make the author happy', which is not true.
>
> You want meta-mess and also formatting as code. So, you could
> define a @macro for that, like
>
> @macro codevar {argument}
> @r{@t{@slanted{\argument\}}}
> @end macro
Exactly. However, using a Texinfo configuration as suggested in
another e-mail would be a much friendlier solution for than that,
which could even be issued using `texi2pdf`'s `--command` option or
using a `texinfo.cnf` file.
Werner
