Re: [help-texinfo] preferred way to change output for a macro

[Patrice Dumas]

On Sun, Apr 28, 2013 at 09:48:43PM +0000, Karl Berry wrote:
>     for changing the indicating commands formatting there is @definfoenclose 
> 
> @definfoenclose is about defining new commands, not changing existing
> ones.  Right?  

In my opinion, it is also for changing existing commands.  There is no
warning for redefinition of existing commands with @definfoenclose for
now.

> Robert wants to change the output for @var, but is still
> meaning "metasyntactic variable", so using a different @command isn't
> really desirable.

Indeed, that's why @definfoenclose could do the job here.

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Pat