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

[Reinhold Kainhofer]

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Am Samstag, 20. September 2008 schrieb Karl Berry:
>     It is done in the lilypond manual.
>
> Gadzooks.  Why on the earth do they do that? 

It's done for the tables of different note names in various languages:
http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.11/Documentation/user/lilypond/Note-names-in-other-languages#Note-names-in-other-languages

Since the note names are actually lilypond code, the whole table was wrapped 
in a @smallexample. Of course, feel free to suggest something better...

> Within @example-like environments, we make spaces active in TeX, so they
> get preserved in general.  It seems to me that using @item or whatever
> in such contexts is going to produce pretty suboptimal output, but if it
> works for the Lilyponders, fine.  Anyway, as far as the language goes,
> we can say spaces are preserved in such places.

Yes, makeinfo --html preserves the spaces and linebreaks, but since they are 
directly inside a <table>, browsers seem to simply ignore them (even though 
the table is inside a <pre>, which is not valid html, but oh well...)

texi2html on the other hand tries to produce correct html and so wraps the 
<pre> inside every table cell, thus making the spaces and more importantly 
the line breaks appear verbatim:
http://kainhofer.com/~lilypond/Documentation/user/lilypond/Writing-pitches.html#Note-names-in-other-languages

Cheers,
Reinhold
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