2.2 Comments

You can write comments in a Texinfo file by using the @comment command, which may be abbreviated to @c. Such comments are for a person looking at the Texinfo source file. All the text on a line that follows either @comment or @c is a comment; the rest of the line does not appear in the visible output. (To be precise, the character after the @c or @comment must be something other than a dash or alphanumeric, or it will be taken as part of the command.)

Often, you can write the @comment or @c in the middle of a line, and only the text that follows after the @comment or @c command does not appear; but some commands, such as @settitle, work on a whole line. You cannot use @comment or @c within a line beginning with such a command.

In cases of nested command invocations, complicated macro definitions, etc., @c and @comment may provoke an error when processing with TeX. Therefore, you can also use the DEL character (ASCII 127 decimal, 0x7f hex, 0177 octal) as a true TeX comment character (catcode 14, in TeX internals). Everything on the line after the DEL will be ignored.

You can also have long stretches of text ignored by the Texinfo processors with the @ignore and @end ignore commands. Write each of these commands on a line of its own, starting each command at the beginning of the line. Text between these two commands does not appear in the processed output. You can use @ignore and @end ignore for writing comments. (For some caveats regarding nesting of such commands, see Conditional Nesting.)