Hello, I am not completly sure about how space before and after @*item and @tab should be treated. It is important in info, and also within @example and the like.
My proposal is the following: * in @multitable, spaces and newlines before and after @*item and @tab should be stripped, except for what appears before the first @item. * spaces and newlines appearing before @*item* in @*table @itemize and @enumerate should certainly be left as is. In fact, spaces before an @item could be stripped, but it is bad texinfo style since an @item should be at the beginning of the line, so it is even better to consider that how spaces before an @item are treated is unspecified and the newlines are left as is. * in @*table space after @*item* and before the end of line on the @item line should be stripped. * in @itemize and @enumerate, spaces and newlines after @item should be left as is, if some spacing is used between a mark replacing the @item and the text. However if the mark is not part of the text but of some formatting commands space should be stripped. Ok, this is not clear. Here is an example. First a case where space should be left, imagine that @itemize @bullet @item foo leads to @item being replaced by '*', I think that the 2 spaces should be kept, like * foo However, if a bullet is achieved by using <li> then spaces should be stripped, like <li>foo Opinions? -- Pat
