> When I opened a report in the bug tracker on this, Werner responded
> that this is working as designed.
I still think so.
> While I understand the design of how diversions are implemented, and
> why that implementation might produce these results, I contend that
> this design is so poor as to be fundamentally broken, for the
> following reasons:
I disagree. As has already mentioned by others, diversions hold
formatted data, and obviously the line number belongs to the
formatting.
> - It behaves in a manner that no real-world user would ever want.
Then you are abusing diversions. Diversions can be converted back to
unformatted text only to a certain extent (cf. the `unformat' macro).
It would be interesting to see your real-case situation. Can you
elaborate on that?
Werner
