Re: @item and @tab space in lists and tables

[Patrice Dumas]

On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 06:24:48PM -0500, Karl Berry wrote:
> 
>     @item  foo
> 
> Whenever I have seen that in Texinfo files, it's just a mistake/typo.
> Do you have cases in mind where it is actually useful?  Certainly TeX is
> going to ignore the extra space, so my initial reaction is that it would
> be best for makeinfo (nee texi2html) to ignore them too.

I think that in @example like environment, it could happen that somebody
wants to do the alignement by himself, and so have spaces kept in some
environments. Though I have never seen it in real life.

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Pat