Looking more closely at the gawk.html file for gawk5 5.3.1, from September 22, I don't see these blank lines. It may be that you have an old version?
In any case, I have fixed the doc and pushed it to git. Arnold [email protected] wrote: > Hi. > > Apologies for the delay in replying, I've been offline for several > days. > > Thank you for the report. I have fixed all the cases in the manual > and will push it to Git shortly. The HTML manual will be updated > when I next make a release. > > IMHO this is really a makeinfo bug (and indeed, the Info file doesn't > change after this update), so I'm cc-ing the texinfo folks. > > Much thanks! > > Arnold > > Thérèse Godefroy <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > I found empty items at these lines of the complete manual: > > > > 10412 (ul) > > 29591 (ol) > > 29872 (ul) > > 38859 (ul) > > > > But there may be more of them. > > > > In the texinfo source,the @enumerate or @itemize commands are > > immediately followed by @cindex instead of @item. Here are 2 examples: > > > > ... > > @enumerate > > @cindex @code{BEGIN} pattern @subentry @code{TEXTDOMAIN} variable and > > @cindex @code{TEXTDOMAIN} variable @subentry @code{BEGIN} pattern and > > @item > > Set the variable @code{TEXTDOMAIN} to the text domain of > > your program. This is best done in a @code{BEGIN} rule > > (@pxref{BEGIN/END}), > > ... > > > > ... > > @itemize @value{BULLET} > > @cindex compatibility mode (@command{gawk}) @subentry file names > > @cindex file names @subentry in compatibility mode > > @cindex POSIX mode > > @item > > Recognition of the @value{FN}s for the three standard preopened > > files is disabled only in POSIX mode. > > ... > > > > Moving @cindex before the list or inside the first @item would solve the > > issue. > > > > FWIW. > > > > Best, > > Thérèse
