[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #33208] Texinfo requires no spaces in the beginning of lines

[John W. Eaton]

Follow-up Comment #1, bug #33208 (project octave):

When Octave generates the scripts/DOCSTRINGS file, it strips out leading
comment characters and the first space (if any).  See the scripts/gethelp.cc
program.

I don't think you want to strip out all leading spaces because doing that will
screw up any by-hand formatting in @verbatim blocks.  It seems simpler to me
to impose a one-space-is-discarded rule on docstring authors rather than
trying to make the code too complex to solve a problem that can just be
avoided by following some fairly simple rules.


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