Bug#512307: texinfo: blank line inconsistency for multitable

[Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.org>]

Package: texinfo
Version: 4.11.dfsg.1-4
Severity: minor

Consider the following multitable.texi file:

\input texinfo    @c -*-texinfo-*-

@ifnottex
@node Top, (dir), (dir), (dir)
@top multitable test
@end ifnottex

@multitable {col 1} {col 2}
@item a @tab 1
@item b @tab 2

@item c @tab 3
@item d @tab 4
@end multitable

@bye

With

  makeinfo --html --no-split multitable.texi

and

  texi2dvi --pdf --batch multitable.texi

the generated HTML and PDF files contain a blank line between
b 2 and c 3 (the HTML file is quite horrible, though). But with

  makeinfo multitable.texi

the info file does not contain such a blank line. With --xml,
the XML file does not contain a blank line either.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.28-20090112 (SMP w/2 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=POSIX, LC_CTYPE=en_US.ISO8859-1 (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages texinfo depends on:
ii  libc6                         2.7-18     GNU C Library: Shared libraries

texinfo recommends no packages.

Versions of packages texinfo suggests:
ii  texinfo-doc-nonfree        4.11-1        texinfo and info documentation tha
ii  texlive-base               2007.dfsg.1-5 TeX Live: Essential programs and f
ii  texlive-generic-recommende 2007.dfsg.1-5 TeX Live: Miscellaneous generic ma
ii  texlive-latex-base         2007.dfsg.1-5 TeX Live: Basic LaTeX packages

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