Re: Leading whitespace in macros is stripped

[Jesper Harder]

address@hidden (Karl Berry) writes:

>     leading whitespace is stripped in the @macro
>
> I'm afraid that this is going to be quite complicated to fix, although I
> agree it is a bug.  At first glance, it is unclear to me how makeinfo
> handles whitespace in macros.  In texinfo.tex, it seems whitespace is
> read according to TeX's normal rules, which ignores leading spaces.
>
> For now, all I can offer is an ugly workaround: replace every leading
> space in the macro body with `@ '.

Thanks.  It might be nice to mention the problem in 
(texinfo)Macro Details.

> Well, I suppose another option, as far as TeX goes anyway, is to forget
> the ascii display and write a raw TeX \halign to produce a pretty
> picture :).

Yup, but in this particular case I don't care a lot about hardcopy
output, because I'm converting an existing TeX document to Texinfo.