Re: [help-texinfo] underlining a word?

[Gavin Smith]

On 27 November 2016 at 19:39, Gavin Smith <address@hidden> wrote:
> It would be nice to have some kind of extensibility mechanism. One way
> of doing this would be to add a command, for example @span, which
> could be passed through to the output format in some form, enabling
> further processing by tools to add styles to the marked text.

On second thoughts, this is already possible. The best way at the
moment, I think, to underline text would be to output strings in the
output like this:

this text isn't underlined UNDERLINE_ONbut this text is.UNDERLINE_OFF

Then after you get, say, the HTML output, search for all instances of
UNDERLINE_ON (or UNDERLINE_OFF) and change them to <ul> (or </ul>).

I feel this idea is a bit stupid, but I can't say why: I can't really
see anything wrong with it. If we do add a command like @span as
mentioned above, it would be to do the same thing but make it possibly
slightly easier.