Re: [help-texinfo] Octave fails to build with texinfo.tex changes to @sortas

[Gavin Smith]

On Fri, Oct 18, 2019 at 03:55:30PM -0700, Mike Miller wrote:
> I've found the problem through trial and error elimination of index
> entries. The root cause is the following index entry
> 
>     @opindex . @ @ @ 
> 
> This is apparently trying to create an index entry ".   ", with trailing
> spaces for some reason. This is hard to read and maintain anyway, so I
> will work within Octave to come up with a better index entry.

This is very strange and I don't know why anybody would want to do this. 
I will look at it to see if it can be fixed.  Perhaps it is something to 
do with the trimming of spaces around the index entry.