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<span id="Inline-Conditionals_003a-_0040inline_002c-_0040inlineifelse_002c-_0040inlineraw"></span><h3 class="section">16.4 Inline Conditionals: <code>@inline</code>, <code>@inlineifelse</code>, <code>@inlineraw</code></h3>
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<p>Texinfo provides a set of conditional commands with arguments given
within braces:
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<dt><code>@inlinefmt{<var>format</var>, <var>text</var>}</code></dt>
<dd><p>Process the Texinfo <var>text</var> if <var>format</var> output is being
generated.
</p>
</dd>
<dt><code>@inlinefmtifelse{<var>format</var>, <var>then-text</var>, <var>else-text</var>}</code></dt>
<dd><p>Process the Texinfo <var>then-text</var> if <var>format</var> output is being
generated; otherwise, process <var>else-text</var>.
</p>
</dd>
<dt><code>@inlineraw{<var>format</var>, <var>text</var>}</code></dt>
<dd><p>Similar, but for raw <var>text</var> (see <a href="Raw-Formatter-Commands.html">Raw Formatter Commands</a>).
</p></dd>
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<p>The supported <var>format</var> names are:
</p>
<div class="example">
<pre class="example">docbook html info plaintext tex xml
</pre></div>
<p>For example,
</p>
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<pre class="example">@inlinefmt{html, @emph{HTML-only text}}
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<p>is nearly equivalent to
</p>
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<pre class="example">@ifhtml
@emph{HTML-only text}
@end ifhtml
</pre></div>
<p>except that no whitespace is added, as happens in the latter
(environment) case.
</p>
<p>In these commands, whitespace is ignored after the comma separating
the arguments, as usual, but is <em>not</em> ignored at the end of
<var>text</var>.
</p>
<p>To insert a literal at sign, left brace, or right brace in one of the
arguments, you must use the alphabetic commands <code>@atchar{}</code>
(see <a href="Inserting-an-Atsign.html">Inserting an Atsign</a>), and <code>@lbracechar{}</code> or
<code>@rbracechar{}</code> (see <a href="Inserting-Braces.html">Inserting Braces</a>), or the parsing
will become confused.
</p>
<p>With <code>@inlinefmtifelse</code>, it is also necessary to use
<code>@comma{}</code> to avoid mistaking a ‘<samp>,</samp>’ in the text for the
delimiter. With <code>@inlinefmt</code> and <code>@inlineraw</code>,
<code>@comma{}</code> is not required (though it’s fine to use it), since
these commands always have exactly two arguments.
</p>
<p>For TeX, the processed <var>text</var> cannot contain newline-delimited
commands. Text to be ignored (i.e., for non-TeX) can, though.
</p>
<p>Two other <code>@inline...</code> conditionals complement the
<code>@ifset</code> and <code>@ifclear</code> commands; see the next section.
</p>
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