Nicolas Goaziou <n.goaz...@gmail.com> writes:

> Bastien <b...@gnu.org> writes:
>
>> thanks for the thorough answer, I agree.
>
> Champagne! ;)

Hehe.

>> Can we sum it up as "Macros are only available in headlines and
>> paragraphs", for the sake of clarifying the Macro section in the
>> manual?
>
> The manual states:
>
>   "in paragraphs, verse blocks, table cells and some keywords"
>
> "some keywords" implicitly refers to AUTHOR, DATE, TITLE and
> CAPTION.

Oops, I checked a (very) old version of the manual without noticing,
sorry for the noise.

> As you noticed, secondary strings are omitted in the manual, but still
> valid locations: titles in headlines or inlinetasks, inline footnotes,
> and plain list item tags.

Any reason not to mention secondary strings?

In this particular case, mentioning headlines and plain list items
would be useful, otherwise careful readers* may assume that macros
are not available there.

* I've met some.

Not a big deal anyway,

-- 
 Bastien

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