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- This is Info file makeinfo.info, produced by Makeinfo-1.55 from the
- input file makeinfo.texi.
-
- This file is an extract from the `Texinfo' manual.
- It documents `makeinfo', a program that converts Texinfo files into
- Info files.
-
- Copyright (C) 1992, 1993 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
-
- Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of this
- manual provided the copyright notice and this permission notice are
- preserved on all copies.
-
- Permission is granted to copy and distribute modified versions of this
- manual under the conditions for verbatim copying, provided that the
- entire resulting derived work is distributed under the terms of a
- permission notice identical to this one.
-
- Permission is granted to copy and distribute translations of this manual
- into another language, under the above conditions for modified versions,
- except that this permission notice may be stated in a translation
- approved by the Free Software Foundation.
-
- File: makeinfo.info, Node: Top, Next: What is makeinfo, Prev: (dir), Up: (dir)
-
- `makeinfo'
- **********
-
- This file documents the use of the `makeinfo' program, versions 1.51
- and later. It is an extract from the `Texinfo' manual.
-
- * Menu:
-
- * What is makeinfo::
-
- File: makeinfo.info, Node: What is makeinfo, Prev: Top, Up: Top
-
- What is `makeinfo'?
- *******************
-
- `makeinfo' is a program for converting "Texinfo" files into "Info"
- files. Texinfo is a documentation system that uses a single source
- file to produce both on-line information and printed output.
-
- You can read the on-line information using Info; type `info' to learn
- about Info. *Note Texinfo: (texinfo.texi)Top, to learn about the
- Texinfo documentation system.
-
- * Menu:
-
- * Formatting Control::
- * Options::
- * Pointer Validation::
-
- File: makeinfo.info, Node: Formatting Control, Next: Options, Up: What is makeinfo
-
- Controlling Paragraph Formats
- =============================
-
- In general, `makeinfo' "fills" the paragraphs that it outputs to an
- Info file. Filling is the process of breaking and connecting lines so
- that lines are the same length as or shorter than the number specified
- as the fill column. Lines are broken between words. With `makeinfo',
- you can control:
-
- * The width of each paragraph (the "fill-column").
-
- * The amount of indentation that the first line of each paragraph
- receives (the "paragraph-indentation").
-
- File: makeinfo.info, Node: Options, Next: Pointer Validation, Prev: Formatting Control, Up: What is makeinfo
-
- Command Line Options
- ====================
-
- The following command line options are available for `makeinfo'.
-
- `-D VAR'
- Cause VAR to be defined. This is equivalent to `@set VAR' in the
- Texinfo file.
-
- `--error-limit LIMIT'
- Set the maximum number of errors that `makeinfo' will report
- before exiting (on the assumption that continuing would be
- useless). The default number of errors that can be reported before
- `makeinfo' gives up is 100.
-
- `--fill-column WIDTH'
- Specify the maximum number of columns in a line; this is the
- right-hand edge of a line. Paragraphs that are filled will be
- filled to this width. The default value for `fill-column' is 72.
-
- `--footnote-style STYLE'
- Set the footnote style to STYLE, either `end' for the end node
- style or `separate' for the separate node style. The value set by
- this option overrides the value set in a Texinfo file by an
- `@footnotestyle' command. When the footnote style is `separate',
- `makeinfo' makes a new node containing the footnotes found in the
- current node. When the footnote style is `end', `makeinfo' places
- the footnote references at the end of the current node.
-
- `-I DIR'
- Add `dir' to the directory search list for finding files that are
- included using the `@include' command. By default, `makeinfo'
- searches only the current directory.
-
- `--no-headers'
- Do not include menus or node lines in the output. This results in
- an ASCII file that you cannot read in Info since it does not
- contain the requisite nodes or menus; but you can print such a
- file in a single, typewriter-like font and produce acceptable
- output.
-
- `--no-split'
- Suppress the splitting stage of `makeinfo'. Normally, large
- output files (where the size is greater than 70k bytes) are split
- into smaller subfiles, each one approximately 50k bytes. If you
- specify `--no-split', `makeinfo' will not split up the output file.
-
- `--no-pointer-validate'
- `--no-validate'
- Suppress the pointer-validation phase of `makeinfo'. Normally,
- after a Texinfo file is processed, some consistency checks are
- made to ensure that cross references can be resolved, etc. *Note
- Pointer Validation::.
-
- `--no-warn'
- Suppress the output of warning messages. This does *not* suppress
- the output of error messages, only warnings. You might want this
- if the file you are creating has examples of Texinfo cross
- references within it, and the nodes that are referenced do not
- actually exist.
-
- `--no-number-footnotes'
- Supress automatic footnote numbering. By default, `makeinfo'
- numbers each footnote sequentially in a single node, resetting the
- current footnote number to 1 at the start of each node.
-
- `--output FILE'
- `-o FILE'
- Specify that the output should be directed to FILE and not to the
- file name specified in the `@setfilename' command found in the
- Texinfo source. FILE can be the special token `-', which specifies
- standard output.
-
- `--paragraph-indent INDENT'
- Set the paragraph indentation style to INDENT. The value set by
- this option overrides the value set in a Texinfo file by an
- `@paragraphindent' command. The value of INDENT is interpreted as
- follows:
-
- * If the value of INDENT is `asis', do not change the existing
- indentation at the starts of paragraphs.
-
- * If the value of INDENT is zero, delete any existing
- indentation.
-
- * If the value of INDENT is greater than zero, indent each
- paragraph by that number of spaces.
-
- `--reference-limit LIMIT'
- Set the value of the number of references to a node that
- `makeinfo' will make without reporting a warning. If a node has
- more than this number of references in it, `makeinfo' will make the
- references but also report a warning.
-
- `-U VAR'
- Cause VAR to be undefined. This is equivalent to `@clear VAR' in
- the Texinfo file.
-
- `--verbose'
- Cause `makeinfo' to display messages saying what it is doing.
- Normally, `makeinfo' only outputs messages if there are errors or
- warnings.
-
- `--version'
- Report the version number of this copy of `makeinfo'.
-
- File: makeinfo.info, Node: Pointer Validation, Prev: Options, Up: What is makeinfo
-
- Pointer Validation
- ==================
-
- If you do not suppress pointer-validation (by using the
- `--no-pointer-validation' option), `makeinfo' will check the validity
- of the final Info file. Mostly, this means ensuring that nodes you
- have referenced really exist. Here is a complete list of what is
- checked:
-
- 1. If a `Next', `Previous', or `Up' node reference is a reference to a
- node in the current file and is not an external reference such as
- to `(dir)', then the referenced node must exist.
-
- 2. In every node, if the `Previous' node is different from the `Up'
- node, then the `Previous' node must also be pointed to by a `Next'
- node.
-
- 3. Every node except the `Top' node must have an `Up' pointer.
-
- 4. The node referenced by an `Up' pointer must contain a reference to
- the current node in some manner other than through a `Next'
- reference. This includes menu entries and cross references.
-
- 5. If the `Next' reference of a node is not the same as the `Next'
- reference of the `Up' reference, then the node referenced by the
- `Next' pointer must have a `Previous' pointer that points back to
- the current node. This rule allows the last node in a section to
- point to the first node of the next chapter.
-
-
- Tag Table:
- Node: Top949
- Node: What is makeinfo1215
- Node: Formatting Control1758
- Node: Options2377
- Node: Pointer Validation6743
- End Tag Table
-