texinfo -- can one define macros?

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From: Dan Kelley
Date: Sun, 03 May 1992 01:25

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I have a texinfo document in which I refer repeatedly to the version
number of the software being described.  Is there a way I can store
the version number in some kind of macro that both TeX and "info" will
understand?  I'd like to avoid having to manually search/replace for
the version number each time I update the program.  I reckon I can do
this for the TeX part fairly easily (with a \def{} command), but I'd
like a "@" mechanism that would affect both the TeX and "info" output
from the texinfo file.

Thanks for any email tips on this, and apologies if this is the wrong
group ... I spend a while scanning my .newsrc file, and this looked
like the most likely.






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From: kelley@cs.dal.ca (Dan Kelley)
Subject: texinfo -- can one define macros?
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