> Within @example-like environments, ...
... At least in @multitable and @table I'd have said that spaces
following @*item and @tab should be removed, and spaces and newlines
at the end of the @item or @tab argument removed too.
Well, I agree that is the desirable behavior. Actually, I suspect the
ideal would be to ignore spaces after any non-delimited command, just as
they are outside @example, and @*item and @tab are just the ones that
the Lilypond manual has run into. For instance, @*index, @set, ...
And for @enumerate and @itemize leave things unspecified.
Why leave it unspecified for those if it's specified for @*table?
Anyway, I'm not ready to specify it for anything until I figure out if I
can reasonably implement any of this in texinfo.tex. Explicitly writing
code to ignore spaces anywhere that TeX "normally" ignores spaces seems
pretty much like a nightmare to me.
If you want to implement the space/newline-ignoring for texi2html (or if
it already behaves that way), that is all to the good.
Karl
