Re: non-obvious help needed

[Bruce Korb]

On 08/05/12 10:20, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> Actually, @option sounds ideal, since that's what --help is.

Hi Eli,

Thank you!  Still and all, it is surprising to have texi go in
and render text in ways I consider surprising.  I think it would
be a good thing to have a special (although short) chapter in
the doc saying, "texi treats these characters specially"
and list the '@', '{', '}' and '-' characters there and what to
do to escape them.  I know how to escape the first three, and
I know how to escape the hyphen for my current example, but how
do I do it with plain text?  "@-" doesn't work.  I may not wish
to have "@code{-}" inserted into my text since it is a different
font.  What is the right way?  Anyway, grist for a chapter or
section in the texi manual methinks.

Thanks again!

Regards, Bruce