Re: @ref in @multitable broken in Info output if split across lines

[Gavin Smith]

On Fri, Feb 6, 2015 at 11:54 PM, Karl Berry <address@hidden> wrote:
>     I notice that @w can block newlines.
>
> I'm not sure what you mean.
>
> The purpose of @w{...} is to have absolutely no line breaks in the
> argument.  The bug I see in your sample output is that @address@hidden
> does still allow a line break at the space after the "*note".  It seems
> to me that should not be allowed, by virtue of being inside @w.
>
I thought you had a point there, but when I tried it again the output
looked right. I am now wondering if my email was mangled because the
lines were too long... I've attached test files that show the right
output for @w.

> Possibly any xref command inside a multitable should be implicitly
> handled as if enclosed in @w, to avoid the unable-to-find-the-reference
> problem.  (I also think the explicit "See" in the txijr output in these
> tablesis useless verbiage, but that's a side point.)

Yes.

>
> Then there is the bug where the second column text gets intermixed with
> the first column text, and not indented, in your example:

Possibly another mangling of email long lines.

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