On Wed, Mar 26, 2025 at 09:45:05PM +0000, Gavin Smith wrote: > On Wed, Mar 26, 2025 at 10:13:39PM +0100, Patrice Dumas wrote: > > Hello, > > > > Currently in texi2any there is no expansion of alias, value, macro on > > @clickstyle line. I think that it would be better if there was, such > > that it is possible to use consistently those commands substitution in a > > document. It would also be more similar to Texinfo TeX. Not exactly > > the same, as unless I missed something, Texinfo TeX can also substitute > > when expanding @click, which is not what I propose. It would also be > > more similar to @table and @itemize, though I do not think that it is > > important. > > > > Any opposition? > > It is not completely clear from your message what the current behaviour > is and how texinfo.tex and texi2any differ.
Thinking more about this issue, it is not clear to me why @clickstyle is used to change the formatting of @click while there are other options, in particular @alias (or @macro) that are well integrated in the Texinfo language. I found this message of Karl announcing the feature. He said that he discussed with Ben, but there isn't more information than what is in the manual: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-texinfo/2008-01/msg00049.html How about deprecating clickstyle and asking users to replace @clickstyle @result by @alias click=result Before removal, it could be possible to modify texi2any to replace @clickstyle by @alias, and texinfo.tex could remain as it is now. Also, I think that this @-command is not used in any manual, a search on the internet gives nothing else than the Texinfo manual, and it is not in the contrib/mass_test manuals (which do not include important manuals, such as lilypond, maxima, octave, gnupg...). -- Pat
