Re: defining environments

[Werner LEMBERG]

> > On the other hand, it would be really nice to have address@hidden' and
> > address@hidden' to define real environments like this:
> >
> >   @envmacro foo
> >   @flushleft
> >   @end envmacro
> >
> >   @endenvmacro foo
> >   @end flushleft
> >   @end endenvmacro
>
> I think that a new @macro like @-command is not a good thing to
> introduce, especially when there is dissatisfaction about the
> current @macro.  More to the point, I can't see why it should be
> needed here since @macro should just work, and in the mean time the
> workaround to use makeinfo to expand the @macro seems fine to me.

Well, in my previous answer I forgot one thing: @macro can't define
environments at all!  What I can define is a pseudo environment

  @foo
  @endfoo

However, I can't define a real environment

  @foo
  @end foo

(which would, BTW, generate a proper error if not nested correctly).
Thus it actually *does* make sense to have new macros for that
purpose.


    Werner