Re: How to read Texinfo file format
If you use dselect or apt, download "info" (texinfo) just
for the reader. I did not find "texinfo" on the dselect list with
a search. BTW, I'm going to try it with dwww--should
be pretty cool. :-) For authoring, see Henning's message below.
Art
On Wed, Jan 27, 1999 at 04:15:11AM +0100, Henning Makholm wrote:
> Olaf Meeuwissen <olaf@IMSL.shinshu-u.ac.jp> writes:
> > On Tue, 26 Jan 1999 21:08:28 +0000 "Alfie Costa" <agcosta@gis.net>
> > wrote:
>
> > > I've volunteered for a bit of GNU proofreading, and have been sent a
> > > file to proof portions of, written in something called Texinfo
> > > format, or infotex -- I'm not clear on the exact difference.
>
> It is 'texinfo'. That is GNU's favorite documentation format.
>
> The texinfo source can be compiled into either
> .dvi (which can be printed to postscript printers with dvips)
> or .info (which can be browsed on-line with the C-H i command in
> emacs or the standalone 'info' program).
>
> The commands that do that are texinfo (for making a .dvi) and makeinfo
> (for making a .info).
>
> > You need to have the `texinfo' package installed.
>
> No, the texinfo authoring tools are in the tetex-bin and tetex-base
> packages (at least in hamm, that is). The dvips program one need
> for making printable postscript from the .dvi is in tetex-bin, too.
>
> The stand-alone info reader (which is for making sense out of *.info
> if one hasn't any emacs) has its own package, in section doc.
>
> --
> Henning Makholm
> http://www.diku.dk/students/makholm
>
>
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