On Thu, Mar 12, 2026 at 09:06:13PM +0100, Patrice Dumas wrote: > On Thu, Mar 12, 2026 at 08:42:07AM +0100, Rik wrote: > > Summary: Using @exampleindent does not change indent of @example blocks for > > "plain text" and Info output > > Does anyone know what is supposed to be the difference between > @exampleindent asis and 0? The manual says: > > ‘asis’ > Do not change the existing indentation (not implemented in printed > output). > > 0 > Omit all indentation. > > Since in all the @example and similar environments spaces are kept as > is, I don't understand what could be the difference.
I don't know. There appears to have been uncertainty of the meaning of '@exampleindent asis' when the command was first introduced. Comment in texinfo.tex: % @exampleindent NCHARS % We'll use ems for NCHARS like @paragraphindent. % It seems @exampleindent asis isn't necessary, but % I preserve it to make it similar to @paragraphindent. The @paragraphindent command is older. (I wouldn't know what it did without looking into it.) So I suppose that it should be as consistent with @paragraphindent as possible. Old email from 1999: From: Karl Berry <[email protected]> Received: (from karl@localhost) by hub.cs.umb.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA25795; Wed, 17 Mar 1999 07:35:03 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 17 Mar 1999 07:35:03 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Subject: [[email protected]: texinfo v4.0] Sender: [email protected] Precedence: bulk Would anyone like to implement this @exampleindent thing? (I want to keep working towards the release, not adding still more features.) It seems harmless enough. Thanks, Date: Tue, 16 Mar 1999 17:54:02 +0100 (MET) From: Olaf Bachmann <[email protected]> To: Karl Berry <[email protected]> Subject: texinfo v4.0 ... There is one thing which still is on my wish-list: Have something like @exampleindent, which is just like @paragraphindent but controls the identation of examples. Both, texinfo.tex and makeinfo should observe it. Would that be possible to implement? Thanks, Olaf Reply: To: [email protected] Cc: Olaf Bachmann <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [[email protected]: texinfo v4.0] References: <[email protected]> MIME-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI 1.13.3 - "Komaiko") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII From: Yoshiki Hayashi <[email protected]> Date: 18 Mar 1999 12:49:28 +0900 In-Reply-To: <[email protected]> (Karl Berry's message of "Wed, 17 Mar 1999 07:35:03 -0500 (EST)") Message-ID: <[email protected]> Lines: 117 User-Agent: Semi-gnus/6.10.8 SEMI/1.13.3 (Komaiko) FLIM/1.12.6 (=?ISO-8859-4?Q?Family-K=F2enmae?=) Emacs/20.3.5 (i386-*-nt4.0) MULE/4.0 (HANANOEN) Meadow/1.03 Alpha3 (FUDI-GASANE) Sender: [email protected] Precedence: bulk Karl Berry <[email protected]> writes: > Would anyone like to implement this @exampleindent thing? > (I want to keep working towards the release, not adding still more features.) > It seems harmless enough. I wrote patch although I'm not sure this is what he wants. I made `@exampleindent asis' to do nothing, to make it similar to @exampleindent. You may remove it. Yoshiki Hayashi sent a patch to makeinfo as well as the implementation in texinfo.tex in that email.
