Re: Indentation conventions for Info manuals; recognizing code

[Richard Stallman]

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The structure of an Info file is documented somewhere, but style
conventions are not.  The style conventions for Info files are defined
by what properly written Texinfo source converts into.

I did not write separate documentation for Info format because (1) it
would be more or less duplicative and (2) Info files are normally
generated from Texinfo files.

  > But other manuals don't seem to use the same indentation.  Several
  > (org, eintr, ccmode, efaq(-w32),...) indent code (including Elisp)
  > 5 spaces - which is the same amount that other, non-code text is
  > indented.

Aside from eintr, I don't know anything specific about those manuals.

The eintr manual was written by Bob Chassell; I presume it is still
generated from Texinfo, right?  So I find it puzzling that it produces
a different format in the Info file.  

Why does it do that?  Is the source formatted in an unusual way?  Does
it somehow specify different parameters for generating the Info file?

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