10.8 @display and @smalldisplay

The @display command begins a kind of example, where each line of input produces a line of output, and the output is indented. It is thus like the @example command except that, in a printed manual, @display does not select the fixed-width font. In fact, it does not specify the font at all, so that the text appears in the same font it would have appeared in without the @display command.

This is an example of text written between an @display command
and an @end display command.  The @display command
indents the text, but does not fill it.

Texinfo also provides a command @smalldisplay, which is like @display but uses a smaller font in @smallbook format. See section @small… Block Commands.

The @table command (see section Using the @table Command) does not work inside @display. Since @display is line-oriented, it doesn't make sense to use them together. If you want to indent a table, try @quotation (see section @quotation: Block quotations).