Re: @macro to accept hyphen

[Christopher Dimech]

> Sent: Monday, November 09, 2020 at 10:22 PM
> From: "Patrice Dumas" <pertusus@free.fr>
> To: "Gavin Smith" <gavinsmith0123@gmail.com>
> Cc: "Christopher Dimech" <dimech@gmx.com>, "help-texinfo gnu" 
> <help-texinfo@gnu.org>
> Subject: Re: @macro to accept hyphen
>
> On Mon, Nov 09, 2020 at 08:07:02PM +0000, Gavin Smith wrote:
> > On Sun, Nov 08, 2020 at 10:56:46AM +0100, Christopher Dimech wrote:
> > > Have not seen a mathematical expression in the manual. Thusly I have 
> > > provided
> > > you with one.  Works perfectly, no problem with it. 
> > > 
> > > You have this sentence in the macro. 
> > > 
> > > To get a single ‘\’ in the macro expansion, use ‘\\’
> > > 
> > > Although the information is there, it is very cryptic.  If we include an 
> > > indented
> > > example with a real math expression, users will be immediately drawn to 
> > > it.   
> > 
> > I don't know if your use of math inside macros is likely to be
> > prevalent enough to warrant special mention.

In many Gnu Packages, much math expressions are not necessary.  But will become 
more
prevalent as more work is done on geophysical software (e.g., Gnu Behistun).
 
> I think that a special mention would stil be good even if it is likely
> that math in a macro is not prevalent, as it is probably the main case
> with \ appearing naturally in text.

Yep, it is very natural and a good example for many who want to use math 
expressions.
Macros become important for fundamental expressions that occur frequently in a 
given
field because they would have the advantage of simply calling them using 
popular names.
  

 
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> Pat
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