Re: "special" spaces in Texinfo parsing and output

[Patrice Dumas]

On Mon, Aug 05, 2013 at 05:30:19PM -0600, Karl Berry wrote:
>     my opinion is that it should not stop and start a paragraph. 
> 
> In the normal text case, it should stop the current paragraph (in the
> output), but not start a new one.  In the 
> 
> foo
> ^L
> bar
> 
> case, it's the "bar" that starts the paragraph, not the ^L.  Put another way,
> 
> foo
> ^L
> 
> bar
> 
> should produce identical output.  (I'm pretty sure it is in TeX, though I
> can't check it this second.)

Indeed, it is also like that in texi2any, ^L stops the paragraph, adds
itself as an 'empty_line' even if it is not really a line an restarts an
empty 'empty_line'.

I could add a special container if 'empty_line' is not correct, I'll see
with the different backends.

-- 
Pat