Re: @item and @tab space in lists and tables

[Karl Berry]

    > Come to think of it, it seems like spaces should be ignored after
    > any alphabetic command name, including @verb -- but not the
    > non-alphabetic ones.  Are there any exceptions?

    Beware the @def*, my son!

Hi Pop,

As far as I can see, even
@defun  foo
and
@defun foo

have the same spacing.  I can easily believe that spaces after the first
@def arg can be significant (haven't checked).  I was talking about
spaces directly after the command name.  Ignoring of those happens very
deeply inside TeX.

karl