Re: @exampleindent macro does not seem to have effect

Eli Zaretskii <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.tex.texinfo.bugs
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2026 09:13:29 +0100
> From: Rik <[email protected]>
> 
> I agree, this probably isn't a commonly used feature.  It will, however, be 
> very useful for GNU Octave documentation.  We use @example blocks within 
> @deftypefn blocks and the overall indentation really starts to stack up. 
> Maybe there is a different structure, but we have @deftypefn blocks to 
> document functions, and within those blocks we use @example, and within 
> those blocks we use @result with our own indentation to align columns.

FWIW, this is the standard style of GNU documentation, used also in
Emacs manuals and in many other places.  I never found the resulting
indentation of examples or their results to be excessive.  And the
examples you posted don't look ugly to me, either.

That said, I have nothing against making @exampleindent work in Info
output, of course.
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