Re: "special" spaces in Texinfo parsing and output

[Karl Berry]

    also lines consisting only of spaces are emptied in @example and the
    like 

Removing trailing whitespace in the Info output seems like the one thing
that is ok to me, though it would also be ok to preserve it.

I see that leading and internal whitespace is already preserved inside
@example.  That is good.

    and lines consisting only of spaces between paragraphs are
    completly removed.

Reducing multiple blank lines between paragraphs to one seems ok to me.
C makeinfo did that.

The one perhaps-problematic case I found in a few minutes of experiments
is this:
----------------------
@example
Whatever

@end example

Outside example.
----------------------

There is only one blank line with both C and Perl makeinfo.  I
intuitively would have expected two in that particular case, though --
that is, for all blank lines inside @example to be preserved regardless
of what happens outside.  (This is how texinfo.tex behaves.)

Wdyt?


I'll reply separately about the Unicode stuff.

k