[help-texinfo] Re: automake + .info files help needed

[Ralf Wildenhues]

* Bruce Korb wrote on Sun, Nov 02, 2008 at 06:09:14PM CET:
> This input line:
>
>        @item @code{[[HH:]MM:]SS}
>
> causes texinfo to go nuts and dump lots of incomprehensible stuff
> into stderr.  I just want the text inside the curly braces to print
> as you see it, and if there's something wrong with that syntax then
> a corrective hint would be nice, too.  Thank you  Cheers - Bruce

Have you tried @verb?

>> Oh, and when you happen to be bored, you could eliminate some of those
>> under/overfull boxes ...
>
> Only if I knew the cause.  I must have some boxes, but I don't know what they 
> are.
> It's just .texi text as far as I know.

Oh, underfull hboxes usually happen when you have paragraphs that are
only around one line long, and/or there are words near the end of line
that TeX doesn't know to hyphenate or isn't allowed to.  The usual fix
is to add some filler words or rephrase the sentences so that the lines
have decent length.  See also 'info texinfo -- "- and hyphenation"'.

Cheers,
Ralf