Re: bad vertical spacing with @item and @example

[Werner LEMBERG]

>     The vertical spacing is extremely bad.
> 
> I haven't investigated, but I'm not surprised.  Directly after an
> @item is one of the places that TeX usually tries *not* to break at,
> since psychologically it seems a poor choice to separate the item
> header from the item text.  But the @group does stuff to make it be
> a good choice to break at.  Conflict.

???  This is not related at all.  The vertical space between the @item
line and the first example line is *less* than \baselineskip.  This
must not happen.

> Also, a one-line @group is useless, so I don't think I ever looked
> at or tested such a case.

It shouldn't matter, I think.


    Werner