Re: Problematic indentation in HTML output of makeinfo

[Patrice Dumas]

On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 07:47:52PM +0100, Thomas Keller wrote:
> 
> Apparently texi2html makes this better, though the indentation is
> "emulated" as HTML table here, which could be hacked around, but is
> still not optimal. Actually I think there is little to no reason to
> render the indentation "hard" at all, CSS' `margin-left` and
> `padding-left` properties should be enough for everyone adding the
> correct padding afterwards. And the CSS box model already takes care of
> proper indentation on different levels, because the margins of all outer
> boxes add up.

The issue is that it doesn't allow for imbrication of 'preformatted' styles.
For example

@example

The example

@display 
this part is displayed
@end display

End of the example

@end example

Also other kind of nesting wouldn't be that good if the indentation was done
for each preformatted fragment. For example for a @multitable in @example,
I think that it is better to indent the whole @example and not the 
individual preformatted fragments in the @multitable. To be honest, this is
not clear that this is correct texinfo, but such constructs happen in 
manuals.

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Pat