texi2dvi problems

[David]

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These are difficulties that I have had with texi2dvi.  The changes described
are relative to some texinfo input that is successfully compiled by makeinfo;
the changes had to be made to avoid compilation error messages from texinfo.

texinfo [version 1999-04-25.15]
makeinfo (GNU texinfo) 4.0
GNU Emacs 20.7.3 (i586-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit)


* @emph does not like paragraphs

** error

! Paragraph ended before @emph was complete.
<to be read again> 
                   @par 
l.93 

** This causes the error.

@emph{text text text text text text text text text text text text text text
text text text text text text text text text text text text text.

text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text
text text text text text text text text text text text text text.}

** This is ok.

@emph{text text text text text text text text text text text text text text
text text text text text text text text text text text text text.}

@emph{text text text text text text text text text text text text text text
text text text text text text text text text text text text text text.}


* @itemize @w does not compile

! Missing number, treated as zero.
<to be read again> 
                   }
@item ...t @hbox to address@hidden @itemcontents @hskip 
                                                  @itemmargin address@hidden 
address@hidden
l.167 @item
             @emph{key}  This is the key sequence that is used (via another ...

** Replacing @itemize @w by @itemize @bullet compiles successfully.


* A footnote cannot be placed on a subsection title

** This causes a compilation error.

@subsection  Section address@hidden footnote.}

** This works, but does not give the desired result.
The reference number (wholey) forms the first paragraph after the title.

@subsection  Section Title
@footnote{A footnote.}