Re: Inconsistent space after raw regions

[Quinn Grier]

On Mon, Oct 5, 2015 at 4:12 PM, Patrice Dumas <address@hidden> wrote:
> Inline commands are more natural and were indeed added for that kind of
> cases.  But prior from inline commands, the only way to add inline raw
> text was with the block commands such as @html, and to leave the
> possibility to have a space or not after the block, to allow for a sort
> of inline command, the end of line at the end of the raw block was
> removed.  Since it was not possible to do that with TeX, it was only
> done with makeinfo.  I think that this feature was used by manuals to
> workaround the lack of inline commands at that time.  (The end of line
> before the block was never removed.)
>
> I think that not removing the last end of line of raw blocks would
> probably be better, but some manuals may expect the end of line to be
> removed.  So, there is an issue of backward compatibility here.

In this case, maybe it's best to just document this behavior in the
manual. For what it's worth, I ran into this when playing with some
formatting and was surprised to find some words adjoined in the HTML
output. This was inconsistent with the TeX raw region and I couldn't
find anything about it in the manual, so I reported it here.

Quinn Grier