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- Texinfo, Version 3
- ==================
-
- This is the README file for version 3 of the Texinfo distribution.
- Files within this distribution have their own version and edition
- numbers. When you refer to a file, please mention its own number.
-
- 23 March 1993
-
- Texinfo is a documentation system that uses a single source file to
- produce both on-line information and printed output. This means that
- instead of writing two different documents, one for the on-line help
- or other on-line information and the other for a typeset manual or
- other printed work, you need write only one document. When the work
- is revised, you need revise only one document. You can read the
- on-line information, known as an "Info file", with an Info
- documentation-reading program. By convention, Texinfo source file
- names end with a `.texi' or `.texinfo' extension. Texinfo is
- described in the Texinfo Manual.
-
- You can write and format Texinfo files into Info files within GNU
- Emacs, and read them using the Emacs Info reader. If you do not have
- Emacs, you can format Texinfo files into Info files using `makeinfo'
- and read them using `info'. Use TeX, which is not included in this
- package, to typeset Texinfo files for printing.
-
- Please report bugs to: bug-texinfo@prep.ai.mit.edu
-
- This distribution includes (but is not limited to) the following files:
-
- README This file.
-
- INTRODUCTION This file tells you how to create
- readable files from the Texinfo source
- files in this distribution.
-
- Texinfo source files:
-
- texinfo.texi This manual describes Texinfo. It
- tells how to use Texinfo to write
- documentation, how to use Texinfo mode
- in GNU Emacs, how to use TeX,
- makeinfo, and the Emacs Lisp Texinfo
- formatting commands.
-
- info.texi This manual tells you how to use
- Info. This document comes as part of
- GNU Emacs. If you do not have Emacs,
- you can format this Texinfo source
- file with makeinfo or TeX and then
- read the resulting Info file with the
- standalone Info reader that is part of
- this distribution.
-
- info-stnd.texi This manual tells you how to use
- the standalone GNU Info reader that is
- included in this distribution as a C
- source file, `info.c'.
-
- makeinfo.texi This manual tells you how to use
- makeinfo. The same information is
- contained in a chapter of the Texinfo
- manual; it has been extracted here for
- your convenience.
-
-
- Printing related files:
-
- texinfo.tex This TeX definitions file tells
- the TeX program how to typeset a
- Texinfo file into a DVI file ready for
- printing.
-
- texindex.c This file contains the source for
- the `texindex' program that generates
- sorted indices used by TeX when
- typesetting a file for printing.
-
- texi2dvi This is a shell script for
- producing an indexed DVI file using
- TeX and texindex.
-
-
- GNU Emacs related files:
-
- texinfmt.el This Emacs Lisp file provides the
- functions that GNU Emacs uses to
- format a Texinfo file into an Info
- file.
-
- texinfo.el This file provides Texinfo mode
- for GNU Emacs.
-
- texnfo-upd.el These files provides commands to
- texnfo-tex.el help you write Texinfo files
- makeinfo.el using GNU Emacs Texinfo mode.
-
- detexinfo.el This extra utility file contains functions
- to remove Texinfo commands from a
- Texinfo source file.
-
- info.el These are the standard GNU Emacs
- informat.el Info reading and support files,
- included here for your convenience.
-
-
- Source files for standalone C programs:
-
- makeinfo.c This file contains the source for
- the `makeinfo' program that you can
- use to create an Info file from a
- Texinfo file.
-
- info.c This file contains the source for
- the `info' program that you can use to
- view Info files on an ASCII terminal.
-
- getopt.c Various support files
- getopt1.c
- getopt.h
-
-
- C Installation files:
-
- configure This file creates creates a Makefile
- which in turn creates an `info' or
- `makeinfo' executable, or a C sources
- distribution.
-
- configure.in This is a template for creating
- `configure' using m4 macros.
-
- Makefile.in This is a template for `configure'
- to use to make a Makefile.
-
-
- Other files:
-
- NEWS This contains a summary of new
- features since the first edition
- of Texinfo.
-
- info.1 This is a `man' page that briefly
- describes the standalone `info'
- program.
-
- fixfonts This is a shell script to install the
- `lcircle10' TeX fonts as an alias for
- the `circle10' fonts. In some older
- TeX distributions the names are
- different.
-
- tex3patch This handles a bug for version
- 3.0 of TeX that does not occur in
- more recent versions.
-
-