Re: @var{foo} -> <foo>

[Patrice Dumas]

On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 11:42:28PM +0000, Karl Berry wrote:
> Patrice,
> 
>     For the Maxima manual, variables are enclosed in angle
>     brackets, e.g. @var{foo} => <foo>.
> 
> I believe I have seen other manuals wanting to do this too.
> What if we made an option for this specific variant output?
> It seems pretty reasonable to me.  At least as reasonable as some of the
> other variations we already support with @exampleindent and the like.
> 
> (If anything, rms's usage of all capitals is what was nonstandard in the
> first place.)

Maybe the best would be to have an option for not outputting @var in
upper case.  Then the user could be @definfoenclose for the angle
brackets?

-- 
Pat