1. The character (') used to be allowed in @node names and causes
problems now.
Actually it was never allowed. It works in makeinfo, but not in TeX.
For no fundamental reason, I've just never had the time to fix it.
2. texi2pdf appears to run out of some sort of space:
It's a problem with the TeX installation -- it would seem you need to
increase the pool_size for pdftex, which you can do by editing
texmf.cnf. And yes, the figures may well be the problem.
3. I saw one problem where one of the tools did not want to look "up
and over"
to process "@include ../common/setup.texi" and could not find the
Relative paths are relative to whatever the current directory is at the
time. ../whatever works in general as far as I know.
texi2dvi (GNU Texinfo 3.12-pretest) 0.36
You may wish to upgrade to Texinfo 4.0, which I just released yesterday.
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/texinfo/texinfo-4.0.tar.gz
(I don't believe any of the above problems will be fixed by it, though.)
Karl