fun with texinfo
here's a fun note that may help someone else pulling their hair out trying to get texinfo's texi2dvi
to handle input that uses sequences like @^i
to generate the letter 'i' with a circumflex ('î'). if you get errors like this:
! Missing $ inserted. <inserted text> $ <to be read again> ^ l.1234 this '@^ i' has a funny hat.it means that you forgot
\input texinfo
in the first line of your texinfo file.