Re: (1) Indentation and (2) Vertical Spacing following @displaymath and @enumerate

[Christopher Dimech]

They get too close when using parentheses and mathematical expressions.

Copy the same line twice and parentheses will almost touch.  But note that
the parentheses must be within @math, e.g. @math{(t_b)}


> Sent: Friday, November 13, 2020 at 10:59 PM
> From: "Patrice Dumas" <pertusus@free.fr>
> To: "Gavin Smith" <GavinSmith0123@gmail.com>, "Christopher Dimech" 
> <dimech@gmx.com>, bug-texinfo@gnu.org
> Subject: Re: (1) Indentation and (2) Vertical Spacing following @displaymath 
> and @enumerate
>
> On Fri, Nov 13, 2020 at 09:22:33PM +0000, Gavin Smith wrote:
> > On Fri, Nov 13, 2020 at 05:34:03PM +0100, Christopher Dimech wrote:
> > > In addition, the @enumerate expression puts items too close together
> > > in html output (i.e. requires a larger vertical spacing between items).
> > >
> > > @enumerate
> > >   @item
> > >      @math{v(t)} is continuous on the closed interval @math{[t_a,t_b]}.
> > >   @item
> > >      @math{v(t)} is differentiable on the open interval @math{(t_a,t_b)}.
> > > @end enumerate
> >
> > (switching to bug-texinfo for a larger audience)
> >
> > You can't say that they are too close together: that's just your
> > opinion.  The current spacing for the HTML output for @enumerate as
> > displayed in web browsers may be desirable in many cases.
> >
> > The exact vertical spacing of the HTML output depends on the web
> > browser but it appears to be related to whether there are paragraphs
> > or not:
>
> Indeed, I think that it was reported that spacing was too important, so
> the first paragraph in @item is not formatted as a paragraph, test is
> simply dropped in <li> see line 3780 in Texinfo/Convert/HTML.pm
> in _convert_paragraph_type()
>
>    # no first paragraph in those environment to avoid extra spacing
>
> But this can only be used for the first paragraph, there need to be
> a paragraph for the other paragraphs in @item.
>
> >
> > \input texinfo
> > @settitle Manual
> >
> > @node Topx
> > @top Manual
> >
> > @enumerate
> > @item One
> > @item Two
> > @item Two
> >
> > Three
> > @item Four
> > @end enumerate
> >
> > @bye
> >
> > This is output as
> >
> > <ol>
> > <li> One
> > </li><li> Two
> > </li><li> Two
> >
> > <p>Three
> > </p></li><li> Four
> > </li></ol>
> >
> > Here the Three line is output in its own paragraph which affects the spacing
> > above and below it.
> >
> > I'm not sure if it's correct or not, but the spacing of the existing output
> > could probably be changed with CSS.
> >
> >
>