In @verbatim, # is not taken into account,
I knew we went back and forth on that, and didn't look it up :(.
generate Texinfo ... and therefore not use all the Texinfo features
Sure, but going to a lot of trouble to disable -- and such other basic
things seems nonsensical to me. The result will look lousy. It is not
rocket science to take care of such things during a conversion. And if
one doesn't want to be bothered, then my answer remains: don't bother
using Texinfo. We're not here to produce substandard documentation.
There are plenty of complaints already about how "basic" Texinfo is.
Whatever.
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