This section describes the general conventions used in all Texinfo documents.
Depending on what they do or what arguments they take, you need to write @-commands on lines of their own, or as part of sentences. As a general rule, a command requires braces if it mingles among other text; but it does not need braces if it is on a line of its own. For more details of Texinfo command syntax, see @-Command Syntax.
@example
environment.
@code
and @example
.
Form feed (CTRL-l) characters in normal text end any open paragraph. Other ASCII whitespace (tab, carriage return) may be treated the same as space characters, although the results may differ depending on output format. Hence, there is not much point in using these in documents. Non-ASCII spaces, such as Unicode “em space”, are not recognized as whitespace at all and will be treated as regular, non-whitespace characters.
However, in verbatim modes, for example in code samples, tab characters may produce the correct formatting in the output.