Re: @sp change committed 9/01

Dumas Patrice <[email protected]> Fri, 5 Dec 2003 17:29:00 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.comp.tex.texi2html.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> I noticed that the CVS manual is now causing the latest texi2html to
> generate "@sp requires a numeric argument" warnings, where it never did
> before.  `makeinfo' does not generate these same warnings for `@sp'

This change is because now texi2html formats the titlepage. I didn't
knew @sp without arg was valid.

> without an argument, and the texinfo manual states: "A line beginning
> with and containing only `@sp N' generates N blank lines of space in
> both the printed manual and the Info file.  `@sp' also forces a
> paragraph break.  For example, ...", which isn't entirely clear that @sp
> alone is or isn't acceptable.
> 
> Regardless, as I was saying, `makeinfo' seems to assume that `@sp'
> without an argument is equivalent to `@sp 1'.  Perhaps texi2html should too?

Indeed. Fixed.

Pat