On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 3:08 PM, Karl Berry <[email protected]> wrote:
> It's intentional that redefining a Texinfo command gives a warning. The > idea is to use new names if you want different behavior, instead of > redefining existing ones. OK, I guess, although that doesn't really seem consistent with the description of @var and similar macros. [1] >From what I remember, Texinfo 4 didn't give a warning about redefining @var. Has anything changed in Texinfo 5 that would affect how the macro works? (Aside from printing a warning.) Maybe it's just that the code and documentation were written by authors with different agendas? best Robert Dodier [1] http://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/manual/texinfo/texinfo.html#Indicating
