Bug#583558: texinfo: @noindent has no effect if not preceeded by a blank line

[Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.net>]

Hi,

On 2011-05-16 21:35:03 +0200, Hilmar Preusse wrote:
> On 28.05.10 Vincent Lefevre (vincent@vinc17.net) wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> > Package: texinfo
> > Version: 4.13a.dfsg.1-5
> > Severity: normal
> > 
> > The @noindent command has no effect if it is not preceeded by
> > a blank line (at least for the info file), e.g.:
                  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> > For example:
> > @example
> > This is an example.
> > @end example
> > @noindent
> > This line should not be indented.
> > 
> I generated a minimal example from your report:
> 
> \input texinfo   @c -*-texinfo-*-
> @example
> This is an example
> @end example
> @noindent
> This line is not indented.  As you can see, the
> beginning of the line is fully flush left with the line
> that follows after it.  (This whole example is between
> @code{@@display} and @code{@@end display}.)
> @bye
> 
> I processed the file using texi2dvi and failed to reproduce your
> problem. We have texinfo v4.13a.dfsg.1-6 meanwhile, but I'm pretty
> sure the code wasn't changed in between.

The problem occurs for the info file. I can still reproduce the bug
with makeinfo. The generated info file contains:

     This is an example
   This line is not indented.  As you can see, the beginning of the
line is fully flush left with the line that follows after it.  (This
whole example is between `@display' and `@end display'.)

As you can see, the line is indented.

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