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