Re: Inconsistent space after raw regions

[Gavin Smith]

On 5 October 2015 at 22:12, 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.

Do you think there would be many cases where a raw formatting command
like @html was used without there also being raw formatting commands
for other output formats next to it, like the example in the email:

> >>       @html
> >>       bar
> >>       @end html
> >>       @tex
> >>       bar
> >>       @end tex
> >>       baz

The newline at the end of the @tex block is kept, there's no argument
about this, and in contexts like these, if a word can't run across the
end of one block, you'd expect it not to run across the other block
either.

I struggle to come up with examples, can you remember any from manuals
that did this which don't need the newline? The best I can think of at
the moment is changes to formatting mid-word.