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

[Bruce Korb]

Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> * 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?

I've tried @verb and all manner of variations.  Finally, I dropped
the square brackets.  The problem did *not* go away.  It's the colons!!!
Since it is only for the .dvi output (the rest work fine), perhaps
there is some DVI-only incantation that will let this work?

This text:
> @itemize @samp
> @item HH:MM:SS

Triggers these errors:

Overfull \hbox (37.50905pt too wide) in paragraph at lines 7442--7442
 address@hidden int @textttsl address@hidden ( char const* pz_fname, char* 
file_t
ext,[]
[85] [86] [87] [88] [89] [90] [91] [92] [93] [94] [95]
./../../doc/autogen.texi:8241: Missing number, treated as zero.
<to be read again>
                   }
@tclose ...n @rawbackslash @plainfrenchspacing #1}
                                                  @null
@samp #1->address@hidden {#1}
                       '@null
@item ...nt @hbox to address@hidden @itemcontents @kern
                                                  @itemmargin address@hidden 
address@hidden
l.8241 @item
             HH:MM:SS
?
./../../doc/autogen.texi:8241: Emergency stop.
<to be read again>
                   }
@tclose ...n @rawbackslash @plainfrenchspacing #1}
                                                  @null
@samp #1->address@hidden {#1}
                       '@null
@item ...nt @hbox to address@hidden @itemcontents @kern
                                                  @itemmargin address@hidden 
address@hidden
l.8241 @item
             HH:MM:SS
Output written on autogen.dvi (97 pages, 299076 bytes).