Re: [help-texinfo] Aligning rows

[August Karlstrom]

Karl Berry wrote:
>     Is it possible to typeset indented text (e.g. source code) without
>     using a typewriter font. I'm looking for something like LaTeX's
>     versatile `tabbing' environment.
>
> Texinfo doesn't have anything like {tabbing}.  The only general
> alignment environment is @multitable, which I don't expect would be
> useful for source code.
>
> You can get indentation a la @example but keeping the regular roman font
> with @display.  I guess you could then manually indent stuff using "@ "
> and @indent.  Ugh :(.

OK, thanks for the info.  I think I'll go with @display and use leading 
spaces for indentation.  Since all spaces have the same width in this 
context I'll end up with correctly aligned rows, right?


August