Re: Regression in 4.12: install-info inserts spurious whitespace

[Ulrich Mueller]

>>>>> On Wed, 07 May 2008, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

>> * config.                                       status: 
>> 
>> Oh, bad news.  Thanks for the report.
>> 
>> Ben, are you there?

> I'm not Ben, but AFAIR menu item cannot have embedded periods, can it?

Judging from Texinfo's own "General Index", this is allowed (and useful):

* epsf.tex:                              Image Scaling.       (line  49)
* Stallman, Richard M.:                  History.             (line   6)
* texinfo.tex, installing:               Preparing for TeX.   (line  13)

> If so, the problem is in the original @direntry for config.status,
> I think.

Please don't declare a regression to be a feature. :-( This used to
work in 4.11.

Ulrich