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Texinfo has commands for indicating just what kind of object a piece
of text refers to. For example, email addresses are marked by
@email
; that way, the result can be a live link to send email
when the output format supports it. If the email address was simply
marked as “print in a typewriter font”, that would not be possible.
• Useful Highlighting: | Highlighting provides useful information. | |
• @code : | Indicating program code. | |
• @kbd : | Showing keyboard input. | |
• @key : | Specifying keys. | |
• @samp : | Indicating a literal sequence of characters. | |
• @verb : | Indicating a verbatim sequence of characters. | |
• @var : | Indicating metasyntactic variables. | |
• @env : | Indicating environment variables. | |
• @file : | Indicating file names. | |
• @command : | Indicating command names. | |
• @option : | Indicating option names. | |
• @dfn : | Specifying definitions. | |
• @abbr : | Indicating abbreviations. | |
• @acronym : | Indicating acronyms. | |
• @indicateurl : | Indicating an example url. | |
• @email : | Indicating an electronic mail address. |