On Sun, Oct 04, 2026 at 03:24:54PM +0200, Patrice Dumas wrote: > If we want to go in that direction, we would need to change the > specification of the Texinfo language, as explained in the "Multiple > Spaces" Texinfo manual node, which is (from the Info reader): > > Occasionally, you may want to produce several consecutive spaces, > either for purposes of example (e.g., what your program does with > multiple spaces as input), or merely for purposes of appearance in > headings or lists. Texinfo supports three commands: ‘@SPACE’, ‘@TAB’, > and ‘@NL’, all of which insert a single space into the output. (Here, > ‘@SPACE’ represents an ‘@’ character followed by a space, i.e., ‘@ ’, > ‘TAB’ represents an actual tab character, and ‘@NL’ represents an ‘@’ > character and end-of-line, i.e., when ‘@’ is the last character on a > line.) > > I think that this matches well the texi2any behaviour, but not the TeX > behaviour, therefore we need to change this specification before > changing texi2any.
I am working on adding a note about this to the manual, but I need to investigate this further as it seems that simply "A@ B" does not produce the same output with texi2any as with texinfo.tex. texi2any for Info output produces "A B" which is expected, with two spaces, but texinfo.tex appears to only produce a single space.
