Hi Karl. > Current makeinfo when processing @docbook ... @end docbook leaves off > the trailing newline. > > I can't tell you how much hassle that the trailing newline before @end is. > In some cases it is absolutely neeeded. In other cases it absolutely > needs to be ignored. I see no way to get it right. (It's even worse > with @macro.)
OK. I didn't appreciate the depth of the problem. > It seems that, in practice, newlines are not ignored at the end of > @if... conditionals, but are ignored at the end of raw conditionals. I guess so. But for my uses of @docbook, I need the newline. > <span></span> would be a true no-op, if that's what you want. > > Another approach is apparently to use an empty comment: > @docbook > stuff where you want the newline... > @c > @end docbook OK, I'll try some of these kinds of things and see what I end up with. > peformance, while > > peformance -> performance Thanks! (This may have been a manual typo, I'll check.) Thanks for the feedback. Arnold
