position higher up in the buffer (typically the indentation of the
previous line). That position is the @dfn{anchor position} in the
syntactic element. If there is an entry after the syntactic symbol in
-the syntactic element list then it's either nil or that anchor position.
+the syntactic element list then it's either @code{nil} or that anchor position.
Here is an example. Suppose we had the following code as the only thing
in a C++ buffer @footnote{The line numbers in this and future examples
@defun c-lineup-assignments
@findex lineup-assignments (c-)
Line up the current line after the assignment operator on the first line
-in the statement. If there isn't any, return nil to allow stacking with
+in the statement. If there isn't any, return @code{nil} to allow stacking with
other line-up functions. If the current line contains an assignment
operator too, try to align it with the first one.
@defun c-langelem-pos langelem
@findex langelem-pos (c-)
-Return the anchor position in @var{langelem}, or nil if there is none.
+Return the anchor position in @var{langelem}, or @code{nil} if there is none.
@end defun
@defun c-langelem-col langelem &optional preserve-point