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

[Patrice Dumas]

On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 05:20:36PM -0500, Karl Berry wrote:
> 
> 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.

Are you sure? I would have said the reverse. At least in @multitable and
@table I'd have said that spaces following @*item and @tab should be removed, 
and spaces and newlines at the end of the @item or @tab argument removed too.

And for @enumerate and @itemize leave things unspecified.

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Pat