Re: "special" spaces in Texinfo parsing and output

[Patrice Dumas]

On Sat, Mar 23, 2013 at 11:10:18PM +0000, Karl Berry wrote:
>     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 can very easily change that to preserving.

> 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.

Does this still hold for spaces that are not [\r\n\t ]?  Do they start a 
paragraph.  For instance with texinfo code like, is it 3 paragraphs, or
2?

 AA

 ^L

 BB

(and same question with any of the unicode space).  Should the result be
along

 AA
 ^L
 BB

or

 AA

 ^L

 BB


> 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 don't care either way.  Changing it should certainly not be
complicated.  Should I?

-- 
Pat