> From: [email protected] > Date: Sun, 31 May 2026 18:45:51 -0400 > > Hi. > > Please checkout the gawk git repository and then checkout commit > c247d719316c2cc. Then: > > ./bootstrap.sh && ./configure && make -j && make pdf > > Then look at page 500 in gawk.pdf, section A.9 Major Contributors to gawk. > You will see that the bullted list has spaces between the bullets and the > text. It's because the input looks like this: > > @item > @cindex whatever 1 > @cindex whatever 2 > Actual text here > > Moving the @item to after all the @cindex lines causes the spaces to > disappear. > > This occurs throughout the manual; page 500 is simply a good example. > > I apologize for asking you to work directly with the gawk manual; I > tried to make a small standalone file to reproduce this, but was > unsuccessful. > > There seems to be a similar problem with the DARKCORNER macro > introducing extra space in the middle of lines, but that doesn't > seem to be as consistent. > > Neither of these things used to happen, although I am not sure > I could tell you when it changed. > > For the moment, I've written a script to move all @cindex lines > to before @item lines, and will be committing that in just a moment, > thus the request to check out a specific commit.
Regardless of the empty lines, index entries should always be before the @item, because then the Info reader places the cursor on the @item line, not after it.
