Re: What is wrong with using \begin{flushleft}?

[Gavin Smith]

On Sat, Aug 06, 2022 at 11:59:13PM +0200, Patrice Dumas wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 06, 2022 at 06:19:07PM +0100, Gavin Smith wrote:
> > In the comments in LaTeX.pm it says that the flushleft environment
> > in LaTeX does not match Texinfo because of a difference in "filling",
> > but I did not understand what the difference was or which Texinfo
> > command this referred to.
> 
> It refers to @flushleft and @flushright Texinfo commands.
> In @flushleft and @flushright Texinfo commands, the text is not
> filled, line endings in the input correspond to line breaks in the
> output.  In LaTeX \begin{flushright} and \begin{flushleft} environments,
> the end of line in the input have no effects on the output, the text is
> filled.

Oh I see, that should have been obvious to me.  (Too many environment
commands!)  I'll have a look to see how they could be implemented.  I
expect @flushleft could be implemented similarly to @display.