On Mon, Jun 01, 2026 at 11:39:47AM +0100, Gavin Smith wrote: > 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.
The extra spaces did not appear to be linked to anything specific to the Gawk manual. I found that there were extra spaces in some macro definitions in texinfo.tex, which I have removed (commit c18425d45e, today, texinfo.tex version 2026-06-01.16). This bug will have been present since the following change: 2026-03-31 Gavin Smith <[email protected]> Fix "Missing character" messages in log file * doc/texinfo.tex (\extractindexcommands, \checksortas, \checkseealso, \checkseeentry): New. Use TeX macros to check if @sortas, @seeentry and @seealso occur in the text of an index entry. (\doindexsegment): Replace implementation of the @sortas, @seeentry and @seealso commands with call to \extractindexcommands. The problem with the old way was that we typeset the index text inside a dummy box, which could lead to many error messages about missing glyphs being output in the log file. Report from Jamenson Espindula.
