Re: non-obvious help needed

[Karl Berry]

    - may be escaped as @minus{}

For the record, the Info result will be the same (-), but not the TeX
result.  A minus sign is not a hyphen.

    Another thing you'll have to take care of ...

Indeed.  Another approach would be to put the whole document in
@verbatim.  That would just leave the @asis{#}.

If one doesn't actually want to use Texinfo features, there is no
purpose I can see in creating Texinfo documents.

k