Re: Bug in current version of Texinfo

[Karl Berry]

First, as for the real point, straightforward index entries with \ in
the term work, of course.  I maintain several Texinfo manuals about
(La)TeX stuff, after all.  Can you show me your Texinfo source in
question?

    No idea who'd be able to fix however.

Well, that'd be me, barring surprise appearance of other capable and
Savannah-interested volunteers.  In the queue. 


As for the side issue:

    texinfo.tex is rather full of whitespace errors (mostly trailing spaces
    at line ends

I don't consider that an error.  If there is any truly semantic
whitespace error, like the bogus newline (an editing error) you pointed
out, of course I want to know that.  In general I try to be extremely
careful about it.

In my experience, the only "nuisance" is from VC or other software that
cares about something as meaningless as trailing whitespace instead of
just preserving original text.  I know it is a widespread convention in
GNU now, but I abhor it and refuse to kowtow to it.  Sorry.  (It is not
just obstinance; in my personal environment, that trailing whitespace is
actually useful.  Don't ask.)

karl