Re: [help-texinfo] underlining a word?

[Patrice Dumas]

On Mon, Nov 28, 2016 at 04:21:27PM +0000, Gavin Smith wrote:
> On 27 November 2016 at 20:27, Gavin Smith <address@hidden> wrote:
> > On second thoughts, this is already possible. The best way at the
> > moment, I think, to underline text would be to output strings in the
> > output like this:
> >
> > this text isn't underlined UNDERLINE_ONbut this text is.UNDERLINE_OFF
> >
> > Then after you get, say, the HTML output, search for all instances of
> > UNDERLINE_ON (or UNDERLINE_OFF) and change them to <ul> (or </ul>).
> >
> Thinking again, this isn't necessary because you can just do
> @inlineraw{html, <ul>}. I don't know if underlining is possible for
> any of the other output formats. but if it were, it would have to be
> coded separately for each of them.

Using a macro where the @inline* are put such that it is easy to replace
with the @-command name if it makes its way in Texinfo would probably be
what I would do.

-- 
Pat