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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> <html> <!-- Created by GNU Texinfo 6.8, https://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/ --> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> <!-- This manual is for GNU Texinfo (version 6.8, 8 June 2021), a documentation system that can produce both online information and a printed manual from a single source using semantic markup. Copyright (C) 1988, 1990-1993, 1995-1999, 2001-2021 Free Software Foundation, Inc. Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, with no Front-Cover Texts, and with no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled "GNU Free Documentation License". --> <title>Catching Mistakes (GNU Texinfo 6.8)</title> <meta name="description" content="Catching Mistakes (GNU Texinfo 6.8)"> <meta name="keywords" content="Catching Mistakes (GNU Texinfo 6.8)"> <meta name="resource-type" content="document"> <meta name="distribution" content="global"> <meta name="Generator" content="texi2any"> <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width,initial-scale=1"> <link href="index.html" rel="start" title="Top"> <link href="Command-and-Variable-Index.html" rel="index" title="Command and Variable Index"> <link href="index.html#SEC_Contents" rel="contents" title="Table of Contents"> <link href="Texinfo-Mode.html" rel="up" title="Texinfo Mode"> <link href="Texinfo-Mode-Summary.html" rel="prev" title="Texinfo Mode Summary"> <style type="text/css"> <!-- a.copiable-anchor {visibility: hidden; text-decoration: none; line-height: 0em} a.summary-letter {text-decoration: none} blockquote.indentedblock {margin-right: 0em} div.display {margin-left: 3.2em} div.example {margin-left: 3.2em} kbd {font-style: oblique} pre.display {font-family: inherit} pre.format {font-family: inherit} pre.menu-comment {font-family: serif} pre.menu-preformatted {font-family: serif} span.nolinebreak {white-space: nowrap} span.roman {font-family: initial; font-weight: normal} span.sansserif {font-family: sans-serif; font-weight: normal} span:hover a.copiable-anchor {visibility: visible} ul.no-bullet {list-style: none} --> </style> </head> <body lang="en"> <div class="appendix" id="Catching-Mistakes"> <div class="header"> <p> Previous: <a href="Texinfo-Mode-Summary.html" accesskey="p" rel="prev">Texinfo Mode Summary</a>, Up: <a href="Texinfo-Mode.html" accesskey="u" rel="up">Using Texinfo Mode</a> [<a href="index.html#SEC_Contents" title="Table of contents" rel="contents">Contents</a>][<a href="Command-and-Variable-Index.html" title="Index" rel="index">Index</a>]</p> </div> <hr> <span id="Catching-Mistakes-1"></span><h3 class="appendixsec">D.9 Catching Mistakes</h3> <span id="index-Structure_002c-catching-mistakes-in"></span> <span id="index-Nodes_002c-catching-mistakes"></span> <span id="index-Catching-mistakes"></span> <span id="index-Correcting-mistakes"></span> <span id="index-Mistakes_002c-catching"></span> <span id="index-Problems_002c-catching"></span> <span id="index-Debugging-the-Texinfo-structure"></span> <p>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. </p> <p>Emacs has two tools for catching the @-command mistakes and two for catching structuring mistakes. </p> <p>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. </p> <p>For finding problems with the structure of nodes and chapters, you can use <kbd>C-c C-s</kbd> (<code>texinfo-show-structure</code>) and the related <code>occur</code> command and you can use the <kbd>M-x Info-validate</kbd> command. </p> <ul class="section-toc"> <li><a href="makeinfo-Preferred.html" accesskey="1"><code>makeinfo</code> Preferred</a></li> <li><a href="Debugging-with-Info.html" accesskey="2">Catching Errors with Info Formatting</a></li> <li><a href="Debugging-with-TeX.html" accesskey="3">Debugging with TeX</a></li> <li><a href="Using-texinfo_002dshow_002dstructure.html" accesskey="4">Using <code>texinfo-show-structure</code></a></li> <li><a href="Using-occur.html" accesskey="5">Using <code>occur</code></a></li> <li><a href="Running-Info_002dvalidate.html" accesskey="6">Finding Badly Referenced Nodes</a></li> </ul> </div> </body> </html>