>> Has there been ever a situation where
>> 
>>   @foo
>> 
>> called alone in a line caused problems?
> 
> If I recall well, this was decided because it was considered to be
> wrong, and TeX cannot handle rightly the situation.  An dit is not
> new, this is in the Texinfo manual:
> 
>  The braces are required in the invocation (but not the definition),
>  even when the macro takes no arguments, consistent with all other
>  Texinfo commands.

Hmm.  Normally, writing

  \noindent
  Text text text

and

  \noindent{}
  Text text text

within TeX makes a great difference; the latter produces an unwanted
space...  Right now I have no time to check this with texinfo (my
laptop has no more power).


    Werner

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