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- MAKEINFO(1) ST Programmer's Manual MAKEINFO(1)
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- NAME
- makeinfo - format texinfo files into files suitable for
- reading with GNU info.
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- SYNOPSIS
- makeinfo [ +no-validate ] [ +no-warn ] [ +no-split ]
- [+only-split ] [ +no-headers ] [ +verbose ] [ +version ]
- [+paragraph-indent <val> ] [ +fill-column <val> ]
- [ +error-limit <val> ] [ +reference-limit <val> ]
- [ +footnote-style <val> ]
- [ -o <name> ] [ -f <val> ] [ -p <val> ] [ -e <val> ]
- [ -s <val> ] [ -f <val> ] [ -l ] [ -V ] file ...
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- DESCRIPTION
- Makefinfo reads texinfo file file and creates an output file
- suitable for reading with GNU info. Default name for output
- is created from a basename by appending `.info' to it. When
- output file is big enough and +no-split option was not
- specified then output is divided in smaller chunks and addi-
- tional names will have suffixes like `.info-1', `.info-2'
- and so on. For systems where such long suffixes are not
- supported `info' string is dropped and extra suffixes are
- created as `.-1', `.-2', ..., and so on.
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- OPTIONS
- Some options may have both long and short forms. Here is a
- summary.
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- +no-validate
- suppres node cross reference validation.
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- +no-warn
- do not show warning messages (errors are still output).
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- +no-split
- do not split resulting info file
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- +only-split, -l
- skip formatting and only split already formatted info
- file. Input file has to have tags table in it.
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- +no-headers
- do not write node headers, like `Node: Foo' to output
- file.
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- +verbose
- be slightly more informative what you are doing
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- +version, -V
- print the version number of makeinfo
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- +paragraph-indent <val>, -p <val>
- set paragraph indent to <val>. Accepted values are
- `none', `asis' or a number of spaces to indent. Nega-
- tive values are treated as zero. Default paragraph
- indent is 3 spaces.
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- +fill-column <val>, -f <val>
- set fill column to <val>. Default column is 72.
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- +error-limit <val>, -e <val>
- stop processing when <val> errors is reached. Default
- is 100.
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- +reference-limit <val>, -r <val>
- warn when some node was referenced too many times.
- Default is 1000.
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- +footnote-style <style>, -s <style>
- set style either to `separate' where footnotes are
- placed in their own node or to `end' (default) where
- footnotes are output at the bottom of a node in which
- they were defined.
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- SEE ALSO
- info(l), texindex(l)
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- BUGS
- All processing is done in memory so makeinfo may fail with
- bigger files when memory is limited. If you got a failure
- after the first stage you still can use +only-split option
- to split info file in a separate step. This can be a pre-
- ferred course of action when a disk space may be not ample
- enough. During an execution of both stages together make-
- info needs an extra disk space of roughly double size of an
- original input.
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