Appendix F Formatting Mistakes

Besides mistakes in the content of your documentation, there are two kinds of mistake you can make with Texinfo: you can make mistakes with @-commands, and you can make mistakes with the structure of the nodes and chapters.

Emacs has two tools for catching the @-command mistakes and two for catching structuring mistakes.

For finding problems with @-commands, you can run TeX or a region formatting command on the region that has a problem; indeed, you can run these commands on each region as you write it.

For finding problems with the structure of nodes and chapters, you can use C-c C-s (texinfo-show-structure) and the related occur command and you can use the M-x Info-validate command.

• makeinfo Preferred: makeinfo finds errors.
• Debugging with Info: How to catch errors with Info formatting.
• Debugging with TeX: How to catch errors with TeX formatting.
• Using texinfo-show-structure: How to use texinfo-show-structure.
• Using occur: How to list all lines containing a pattern.
• Running Info-Validate: How to find badly referenced nodes.