Texinfo 4.0 feature request (and bug)

[Mark Lindner]

I've been documenting Java APIs with Texinfo and a while back I submitted a
bug report about a problem in the @deftypeivar macro.

Now I also have a need for a new macro that is not available in Texinfo AFAIK.
I've defined one called @deftypecvar, which is identical to @deftypeivar
except it lists the variable as a "Class Variable" rather than as an "Instance
Variable".

This corresponds to "static" variables defined in Java classes.

Here's what I added to texinfo.tex; however I'm not an expert at TeX so there
may be a more elegant way to do this:


\ifx\putwordClassVariableof\undefined \gdef\putwordClassVariableof{Class
Variable of}\fi

% @deftypecvar CLASS TYPE VARNAME
%
\def\deftypecvar{%
  \deftypemethparsebody\Edeftypecvar\deftypecvarx\deftypecvarheader}
%
% #1 is the class name, #2 the data type, #3 the variable name.
\def\deftypecvarheader#1#2#3{%
  \dosubind{vr}{\code{#3}}{\putwordof\ \code{#1}}% entry in variable index
  \begingroup
    \defname{\defheaderxcond#2\relax$$$#3}{\putwordClassVariableof\
\code{#1}}%
    \defvarargs{}%
  \endgroup
}


Basically just cut & paste of the original putwordInstanceVariableof and
@deftypeivar definitions.

I'd appreciate if you could roll this (and the bug fix I submitted a few
months ago) into a future version of Texinfo.

Cheers,
Mark

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