Re: Defining a latex environment in texinfo

[Søren Hauberg]

John W. Eaton skrev:
> On 18-Apr-2007, Søren Hauberg wrote:
>
> |    As David pointed out a while ago, the manual contains a lot of 
> | DOCSTRING's. I think this is acceptable, but it would be better if 
> | DOCSTRING text was marked more clearly is being the help text of a 
> | function. This marking could be a box around the help text,
>
> Putting a box around the docstring will require that it not break
> across pages, which wil probably cause a lot of bad pagebreaks.
You're right. Then perhaps a different font? I don't really care what it 
is, I just hink it would be nice if you could easily tell help text from 
the rest of the manual.

> | Does anybody here know where I should define new latex environments in 
> | texinfo?
>
> I think your first problem is that Texinfo is processed with TeX, not
> LaTeX.
That is indeed a problem! I don't know TeX but I'll give a quick look 
and see if I can think of something. If not I'll just give up -- it's 
not that big a deal...

Thanks,
Søren