Re: rethinking @def*

[Werner LEMBERG]

>> One idea is to use typewriter parentheses and roman upright square
>> brackets, although this is becoming more complicated.
> 
> I think that this is too complicated, and parentheses can also be
> "metasyntactic", to show groupings of parameters.

I can imagine two things.

* A `@def...` that has 'meta' as the default (after the first
  argument), and users have to add `@var` and friends to tag other
  types, and

* a command `@meta` to tag stuff as meta.  On the other hand, maybe
  `@r` is good enough.

>> In fact, I don't see why @var shouldn't always be slanted
>> typewriter.

I think the current behaviour is OK, that is, you get 'slanted' in
normal text, and 'slanted typewriter' if used within typewriter.
Admittedly, I'm not a fan of too much typewriter in paragraphs...


    Werner