> just what the subject says. It seems an important feature to me but
> I'm unable to find any reference to it in
> https://orgmode.org/manual/Macro-replacement.html.
>

Strangely I do find it here:

https://orgmode.org/manual/Macro-Replacement.html#Macro-Replacement

The only difference being that "replacement" is capitalized.

I had been having this feeling of accessing to different versions of the
documentation for some time now. Is there any double indexing of the docs?
I reached both pages from Google.

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