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    @title Configuring Gnus for reading news
    @node Server name and port
    @variable server :string (gnus-getenv-nntpserver)
    @variable port :number 119
    @validate
    (let ((stream

This would require changes in Texinfo, which would
make it very hard.

Can you design it to use existing Texinfo constructs?  For instance,
just use @example instead of @validate.  Use @defopt instead of
@variable.

You can design some convention for giving the extra info
that you need, so it will show up in the Info file or ASCII
output.