white space in documentation strings

[Thorsten Meyer]

Hi,

I have noticed that white space in the documentation strings of octave
functions is not deflated in the output of the help command.
E.g., a line break in the source code will give an additional space
in the help output. Or as a more extreme example:
a documentation string like this:
## @var{extension} is         created. The original file is not touched.
## If @var{rootdir} is defined [...]

looks like that in the output of the help command:
     Each file is compressed separately and a new file with the
     extension EXTENSION is       created. The original file is
     not touched.   If ROOTDIR is defined  the compressed

Is that a bug or a feature?

thanks and regards

Thorsten