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 section The Template for a Definition).

• ‘@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.