> l.56 \initial {\\} Works for me with current texinfo.tex and the input below (to force creating the \initial line). I don't doubt there was a bug in some version of texinfo.tex in this regard, but I routinely run Texinfo documents with \indexentries, so I doubt it existed for long. -k
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