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

[Karl Berry]

    > Within @example-like environments, ...
    
    ... 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.

Well, I agree that is the desirable behavior.  Actually, I suspect the
ideal would be to ignore spaces after any non-delimited command, just as
they are outside @example, and @*item and @tab are just the ones that
the Lilypond manual has run into.  For instance, @*index, @set, ...

    And for @enumerate and @itemize leave things unspecified.

Why leave it unspecified for those if it's specified for @*table?

Anyway, I'm not ready to specify it for anything until I figure out if I
can reasonably implement any of this in texinfo.tex.  Explicitly writing
code to ignore spaces anywhere that TeX "normally" ignores spaces seems
pretty much like a nightmare to me.

If you want to implement the space/newline-ignoring for texi2html (or if
it already behaves that way), that is all to the good.

Karl