On Sun, May 31, 2026 at 06:45:51PM -0400, [email protected] wrote: > 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.
Yes, I'm always on the edge for disk space on my laptop and the gawk repository after downloading and building is over 100MB. If you don't cut down the input file, I end up doing that myself so anything you can do in this area is appreciated. gawk.texi has quite a lot of preliminary code at the beginning that could be impactful. I've attached my cut down gawk.texi and confirmed it builds outside of the Gawk sources. I replicated the extra space after the bullets with the latest development texinfo.tex. My next step would be to further cut down the code at the beginning of the file to see if any of that is linked to the problem. > 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. > > I apologize again for the vague bug report. > > Much thanks, > > Arnold >
gawk-fail.texi
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