Re: (q.v.) in the emacs manual

[Gavin Smith]

On Sun, Jan 12, 2020 at 08:25:41PM +0900, Jean-Christophe Helary wrote:
> > If you were to implement a new Texinfo command it would be in 
> > texinfo.tex as well as in texi2any.  I'd suggest doing something with 
> > Texinfo conditionals and macros to define a macro differently for 
> > different output formats, e.g.
> > 
> > @iftex
> > @macro plainref{ref}
> > \ref\
> > @end macro
> > @end iftex
> > 
> > and so on.
> 
> Thank you. I guess that will give me a good reason to start the "TeX book" :)

Actually, what I meant was to use Texinfo macros instead of doing 
anything with TeX itself.  @macro and @iftex and so on are documented in 
the Texinfo manual.