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Index commands should close open paragraphs
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Gavin Smith |
Subject: |
Index commands should close open paragraphs |
Date: |
Sat, 21 Jan 2023 10:27:22 +0000 |
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https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-texinfo/2022-11/msg00061.html
On Sun, Nov 27, 2022 at 02:39:25PM +0100, Patrice Dumas wrote:
> > What is more awkward is when there is no blank line before the index
> > command:
> >
> > @table @asis
> > @item aaa
> > text
> > @cindex XXX
> > @item bbb
> > text
> > @end table
> >
> > producing
> >
> > <dl class="table">
> > <dt>aaa</dt>
> > <dd><p>text
> > <a class="index-entry-id" id="index-XXX"></a>
> > </p></dd>
> > <dt>bbb</dt>
> > <dd><p>text
> > </p></dd>
> > </dl>
> >
> > There are several such usages in the Texinfo manual...
> For such cases, it is not clear to me what the output should be
> actually, the index entry could belong to the previous or next @item.
> Since the result is ok, I think that we can leave it as it is.
I think index commands should close any open paragraphs, as there is no other
way of getting the right output other than having a blank line.
If it is really desired for an index command to refer to the middle of
a paragraph, we could introduce a brace command like @anchor for this purpose.
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