Re: bad vertical spacing with @multicolumn

[Karl Berry]

    If there are two multicolumn tables on the same page which use 
address@hidden',
    the vertical spacing of the second table is wrong, causing a very ugly
    result.  See example below.

Thanks.  I installed this patch.

*** texinfo.tex 7 Oct 2004 12:13:02 -0000       1.176
--- texinfo.tex 31 Oct 2004 14:52:19 -0000
***************
*** 2732,2750 ****
    \global\setpercentfalse
  }
  
! \def\setmultitablespacing{% test to see if user has set \multitablelinespace.
! % If so, do nothing. If not, give it an appropriate dimension based on
! % current baselineskip.
  \ifdim\multitablelinespace=0pt
  \setbox0=\vbox{X}\global\multitablelinespace=\the\baselineskip
  \global\advance\multitablelinespace by-\ht0
! %% strut to put in table in case some entry doesn't have descenders,
! %% to keep lines equally spaced
! \let\multistrut = \strut
! \else
! %% FIXME: what is \box0 supposed to be?
! \gdef\multistrut{\vrule height\multitablelinespace depth\dp0
! width0pt\relax} \fi
  %% Test to see if parskip is larger than space between lines of
  %% table. If not, do nothing.
  %%        If so, set to same dimension as multitablelinespace.
--- 2732,2748 ----
    \global\setpercentfalse
  }
  
! \def\setmultitablespacing{%
!   \def\multistrut{\strut}% just use the standard line spacing
!   %
!   % Compute \multitablelinespace (if not defined by user) for use in
!   % \multitableparskip calculation.  We used define \multistrut based on
!   % this, but (ironically) that caused the spacing to be off.
!   % See bug-texinfo report from Werner Lemberg, 31 Oct 2004 12:52:20 +0100.
  \ifdim\multitablelinespace=0pt
  \setbox0=\vbox{X}\global\multitablelinespace=\the\baselineskip
  \global\advance\multitablelinespace by-\ht0
! \fi
  %% Test to see if parskip is larger than space between lines of
  %% table. If not, do nothing.
  %%        If so, set to same dimension as multitablelinespace.