Re: @url change

[Jesper Harder]

address@hidden (Karl Berry) writes:

>     What is the recommended way to deal with the changed meaning of @url
>     in a backward compatible way?
>
> Just use it.  
>
> If a document correctly used @url for an example url in the past, then
> it will just be output as a live link in 4.7 (unless/until it is changed
> to @indicateurl, if you're willing to assume 4.7).  No great harm there.
>
> At least such was my logic.

Oh well, I guess it's not a big deal.

But in general it might be useful to have some way of testing if a
command is defined, say, @iffboundp and @ifnotfboundp.  Then you
could do something like this to keep backward compatibility:

  @ifnotfboundp indicateurl
  @alias indicateurl = url
  @end ifnotfboundp

Or maybe just a command to test against the Texinfo version.

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Jesper Harder                                <http://purl.org/harder/>