On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 09:13:34PM +0100, Werner LEMBERG wrote: > > > As far as I have understood TeX will always accept this kind of > > construct and cannot be made to error on it, but the idea was to > > forbid it in makeinfo/texi2any. > > Why? What's the benefit?
That allows to find those kind of invalid constructs, user will be able to fix them. Among the advantages of not having additional spaces there is simpler parsing and less information to keep in the tree or in the texinfo XML output. -- Pat