Hello Patrice and Gavin,
thanks for your answers. >> Why `<pre>`? I consider this surprising since the item description >> of a menu entry (i.e., the third part of an entry) is not output >> with `<pre>`. > > The idea was that the users may have wanted to have the end lines > and spaces to be significant, like in Info output. I agree that it > is somewhat inconsistent to have menu comments in preformatted and > not menu entries with descriptions. I think that there was > previously the possibility to have menu entries also in preformatted > like menu comments, with the SIMPLE_MENU option, but it is gone, it > was too much of a pain to keep up to date. OK, so please document this. Looking at section `Writing a menu` in the Texinfo info file (of current git) I don't see anything about HTML output of `@menu` blocks and how it is formatted (and the description of `FORMAT_MENU` doesn't mention this either). Werner