Re: Minor documentation nitpick

[David Kastrup]

"Phil Holmes" <address@hidden> writes:

> In notation/input.tely, line 1100 or so we have:
>
> Automatic footnotes take three arguments; the @var{Layout Object} to be
> annotated, the @var{(x . y)} position of the indicator and a
>
> The texinfo manual says:
>
> "Use the @var command to indicate metasyntactic variables" and so it
> doesn't like the parentheses, since I assume a parenthesis cannot be
> part of a variable name.  As a result it throws the following warning:
>
> notation/input.texi:1350: warning: unlikely character ( in @var.
>
> Ignore, replace the @var with @code, or what?

Looking at the Texinfo documentation, it would appear that @samp might
be a better fit.

-- 
David Kastrup