Re: wrong macro expansion for some commands

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2004 11:33:55 +0200 (CEST)
> From: Werner LEMBERG <address@hidden>
> 
> Consider this example:
> 
>   @defcodeindex ma
> 
>   @macro xxx
>   @maindex xxx
>   @end macro
> 
>   foo
>   @xxx
>   bar
> 
> After a call to `makeinfo -E', it expands to
> 
>   @defcodeindex ma
> 
>   @macro xxx
>   @maindex xxx
>   @end macro
> 
>   foo
>   @maindex xxx
>                                           <---
>   bar
> 
> The marked empty line is wrong and shouldn't be emitted at all

IIRC, this could be hard to do in the macro-expanding code, since it
doesn't know anything about the surrounding text, and some situations
need the newline.

Can I suggest using something like

  foo
  @xxx bar

instead?  This should work regardless of whether the macro emits the
newline.