But it reduces the readability of the .texi file, True, but it's one of those things you have to do to get correct output.
Basically I was explaining to Eric that he should not use M-x fill-paragraph I know. And I was explaining that trying to make a convention "don't use fill-paragraph" seems doomed to failure to me. It is reflex with me to do that, anyway. Especially if any source line is >79 chars. I wouldn't want to have half of the spellings be "MacOS X" and the other half "MacOS@tie{}X". Indeed. It would be simpler to use "MacOSX" and avoid the issue entirely. Anyway ... Best, k