19 Defining New Texinfo Commands

Texinfo provides several ways to define new commands:

• A Texinfo macro allows you to define a new Texinfo command as any sequence of text and/or existing commands (including other macros). The macro can have any number of parameters—text you supply each time you use the macro.

  Incidentally, these macros have nothing to do with the @defmac command, which is for documenting macros in the subject of the manual (see Def Cmd Template).

• `@alias' is a convenient way to define a new name for an existing command.
• `@definfoenclose' allows you to define new commands with customized output in the Info file.

• Defining Macros: Defining and undefining new commands.
• Invoking Macros: Using a macro, once you've defined it.
• Macro Details: Limitations of Texinfo macros.
• alias: Command aliases.
• definfoenclose: Customized highlighting.