Re: address@hidden: Bug#77885: particular bug in makeinfo --html]

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Josip Rodin <address@hidden>
> Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2000 19:26:18 +0100
> 
> If there is a blank line following a @table command then an invalid
> <br> added.

It's not a bug, it's intentional behavior.  It is there to prevent
some losing browsers from rendering tables in a very ugly way.  I
believe there's a comment there which hints about why this is needed.

Does that <br> produce some adverse effects?  If so, please describe
the details.

> Also, is there a typo in the file insertion.c?
> It says
>                /* Force the browser to render one blank line before
>                  each new @item in a table.  But don't do that unless
>                  this is the first <dt> after the <dl>, or if we are
>                  converting @itemx.
> but should it say
>               /* Force the browser to render one blank line before
>                  each new @item in a table.  But don't do that *if*
>                  this is the first <dt> after the <dl>, or if we are
>                  converting @itemx.

Yes, this is a typo.  Thanks for catching it.