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<span id="Catching-Mistakes-1"></span><h2 class="appendix">Appendix F Catching Mistakes</h2>
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<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.
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<p>Emacs has two tools for catching the @-command mistakes and two for
catching structuring mistakes.
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<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.
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<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.
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<tr><td align="left" valign="top">• <a href="Debugging-with-Info.html" accesskey="2">Debugging with Info</a></td><td> </td><td align="left" valign="top">How to catch errors with Info formatting.
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