Re: texinfo documentation? bug

[Karl Berry]

Hi Mahlon,

Thanks for the report, but ...

    The documentation is ambiguous at best

Which is intentional, here and in plenty of other cases.  I can't (don't
want to) explicitly and completely define the result of every command in
every context in the Texinfo manual.  That's not its purpose.

    It shows an example where the @indent and 
    @noindent are used inside a @display (actually a @verbatim)

The purpose of that example is to show how to avoid indenting a
paragraph following @example (one kind of generic "display"), which
otherwise happens by default.  That seems eminently practical to me, not
nonsense.  (The nesting inside @address@hidden display may be odd, but
it's conventional throughout the whole manual.)

If there is a practical job you are trying to accomplish that the
current code doesn't do, let us know.  Otherwise, I don't see what needs
to be changed.

Best,
Karl