Re: [help-texinfo] HTML Span

[Patrice Dumas]

On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 11:35:21AM -0700, Mike Gran wrote:
> Hi-
> 
> I've been working with 5.1, and it works great for me.
> It fixes an old problem about images embedded inline with 
> 
> in HTML output.
> Here's a crazy feature request...  A new command @span.
> 
> 
> @span{classname, text}
> 
> For HTML output only, it would expand to 
> 
> <span class="classname">text</span>
> 
> For everything else, it would expand to just the text.
> 
> This would allow me to do fun tricks via CSS3 without
> compromising the intentional formatting language concept.

What about using a user defined macro?

Something like (untested)

@ifhtml
@macro span{classname, text}
@inlinefmt{html, <span class="\classname\">\text\<span>}
@end macro
@end ifhtml

@ifnothtml
@macro span{classname, text}
\text\
@end macro
@end ifnothtml

-- 
Pat