Gavin,

Thanks for the quick fix! I appreciate it.

Arnold

Gavin Smith <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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.

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