Here's some of the texinfo conventions the CVS documentation uses: @code{ ... } command usage & command snippets, including command names. @var{ ... } variables - text which the user is expected to replace with some meaningful text of their own in actual usage. @file{ ... } file names @samp{ ... } for most anything else you need quotes around (often still misused for command snippets) @example ... @end example example command usage and output, etc. @emph{ ... } emphasis - warnings, stress, etc. This will be bracketed by underline characters in info files (_ ... _) and in italics in PDF & probably in postscript & HTML. @strong{ ... } Similar to @emph{}, but the effect is to bracket with asterisks in info files (* ... *) and in bold in PDF & probably in postscript & HTML. @noindent Suppresses indentation of the following paragraph. This can ocassionally be useful after examples and the like. @cindex ... Add a tag to the index. @pxref{ ... } Cross reference in parentheses. @xref{ ... } Cross reference. Preformatted text should be marked as such (use @example... there may be other ways) since many of the final output formats can use relational fonts otherwise and marking it as formatted should restrict it to a fixed width font. Keep this sort of text to 80 characters or less per line since larger may not be properly viewable for some info users. There are dictionary lists and function definition markers. Scan cvs.texinfo for their usage. There may be table definitions as well but I haven't used them. Use lots of index markers. Scan the index for the current style. Try to reuse an existing entry if the meaning is similar. `makeinfo' 3.11 or greater is required for output generation since earlier versions do not support the @ifnottex & @ifnothtml commands. There may be other commands used in `cvs.texinfo' that are unsupported by earlier versions of `makeinfo' by the time you read this. For more on using texinfo docs, see the `info texinfo' documentation or http://www.gnu.org/manual/texinfo/texinfo.html .