Re: Revisiting "man files to text editor": info pages
On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 02:40:49AM -0500, Bijan Soleymani wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 02:05:26AM -0500, Antonio Rodriguez wrote:
> > There was a thread a while ago about reformatting man pages for pretty
> > viewing and printing. I wonder if there are any similar tricks or
> > ideas for the info pages. I didn't want to awake that sleeping
> > thread, so I started this with a similar name.
>
> All info documentation is written in Texinfo format and then converted
> to info, using a program called makeinfo. If you get your hands on the
> Texinfo source you can run it through TeX and get dvi or PostScript output
> or run it through makeinfo and get info or html. The FSF sells printed
> copies of their manuals and they also have them online in various formats
> (html, dvi, ps, pdf, etc).
>
> If you don't feel like either getting the Texinfo sources, or downloading
> the documentation in a different format, you could always use the
> info2man package to convert the info documentation to a manpage and
> then print that. But I believe that you would get much better results
> from the Texinfo sources.
>
Well, the reason for this post is that I had tried info2man with
coreutils, and here is what I got
info2man /usr/share/info/coreutils.info.gz
info2pod: can't open /usr/share/info/coreutils.info: No such file or
directory
etc, however, the file exists.
(bug in info2man, in coreutils, or my misunderstanding?)
I am running sid, with coreutils 5.0.91, which is much nicer
documented (personal taste) than 4.5.4 (it is the version whose
documentation can be downloaded from www.gnu.org)
Any ideas?
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