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Copyright (C) 1992, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 2000, 01, 02
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Free Software Foundation.
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Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document
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under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.1 or
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any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no
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Invariant Sections, with no Front-Cover Texts, and with no Back-Cover Texts.
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This is the README file for the GNU Texinfo distribution.
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The primary distribution point is ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/texinfo/
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and the primary home page is http://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/,
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secondary home page at http://texinfo.org/.
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Mailing lists:
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- bug-texinfo@gnu.org for bug reports or enhancement suggestions,
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archived at ftp://ftp-mailing-list-archives.gnu.org/bug-texinfo/.
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- help-texinfo@gnu.org for authoring questions and general discussion.
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archived at ftp://ftp-mailing-list-archives.gnu.org/help-texinfo/.
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- texinfo-pretest@texinfo.org for pretests of new releases,
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archived at ftp://ftp.texinfo.org/texinfo/texinfo-pretest-archive/.
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There are as yet no corresponding newsgroups.
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For bug reports, please include enough information for the maintainers
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to reproduce the problem. Generally speaking, that means:
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- the contents of any input files necessary to reproduce the bug (crucial!).
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- a description of the problem and any samples of the erroneous output.
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- the version number of Texinfo and the program(s) involved (use --version).
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- hardware, operating system, and compiler versions (uname -a).
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- any unusual options you gave to configure (see config.status).
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- anything else that you think would be helpful.
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Patches are most welcome; if possible, please make them with diff -c and
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include ChangeLog entries.
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When sending email, please do not encode or split the messages in any
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way if at all possible; it's easier to deal with one large message than
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many small ones. GNU shar is a convenient way of packaging multiple
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and/or binary files for email.
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For generic installation instructions on compiling and installing this
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Automake-based distribution, please read the file `INSTALL'.
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Installation notes specific to Texinfo:
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* The Info tree uses a file `dir' as its root node; the `dir-example'
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file in this distribution is included as a possible starting point.
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Use it, modify it, or ignore it just as you like.
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* You can create a file texinfo.cnf to be read by TeX when
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processing Texinfo manuals. For example, you might like to use
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@afourpaper by default. See the `Preparing for TeX' node in
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texinfo.txi for more details. You don't have to create the file if
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you have nothing to put in it.
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* If your info files are not in $prefix/info, you may wish to add a line
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#define DEFAULT_INFOPATH "/mydir1:/mydir2:..."
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to config.h after running configure.
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* For instructions on compiling this distribution with DJGPP tools
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for MS-DOS and MS-Windows, see the file djgpp/README.
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If you would like to contribute to the GNU project by implementing
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additional documentation output formats for Texinfo, that would be
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great. But please do not write a separate translator texi2foo for your
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favorite format foo! That is the hard way to do the job, and makes
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extra work in subsequent maintenance, since the Texinfo language is
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continually being enhanced and updated. Instead, the best approach is
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modify Makeinfo to generate the new format, as it does now for Info,
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HTML, XML, and DocBook.
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If you want to convert from DocBook to Texinfo, please see
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http://docbook2X.sourceforge.net/.
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This distribution includes the following files, among others:
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README This file.
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NEWS Summary of new features by release.
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INTRODUCTION Brief introduction to the system, and
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how to create readable files from the
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Texinfo source files in this distribution.
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Texinfo source files (in ./doc):
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texinfo.txi Describes the Texinfo language and many
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of the associated tools. It tells how
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to use Texinfo to write documentation,
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how to use Texinfo mode in GNU Emacs,
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TeX, makeinfo, and the Emacs Lisp
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Texinfo formatting commands.
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info.texi This manual tells you how to use
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Info. This document comes as part of
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GNU Emacs. If you do not have Emacs,
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you can format this Texinfo source
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file with makeinfo or TeX and then
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read the resulting Info file with the
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standalone Info reader that is part of
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this distribution.
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info-stnd.texi This manual tells you how to use
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the standalone GNU Info reader that is
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included in this distribution as C
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source (./info).
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Printing related files:
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doc/texinfo.tex This TeX definitions file tells
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the TeX program how to typeset a
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Texinfo file into a DVI file ready for
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printing.
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util/texindex.c This file contains the source for
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the `texindex' program that generates
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sorted indices used by TeX when
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typesetting a file for printing.
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util/texi2dvi This is a shell script for
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producing an indexed DVI file using
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TeX and texindex.
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Source files for standalone C programs (./lib, ./makeinfo, ./info):
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makeinfo/makeinfo.c This file contains the source for
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the `makeinfo' program that you can
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use to create an Info file from a
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Texinfo file.
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info/info.c This file contains the source for
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the `info' program that you can use to
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view Info files on an ASCII terminal.
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Installation files:
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configure This file creates creates a Makefile
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which in turn creates an `info' or
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`makeinfo' executable, or a C sources
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distribution.
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configure.in This is a template for creating
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`configure' using Autoconf.
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Makefile.in This is a template for `configure'
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to use to make a Makefile. Created by
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Automake.
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Makefile.am This is a template for Automake
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to use to make a Makefile.in.
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Other files:
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fixfonts This is a shell script to install the
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`lcircle10' TeX fonts as an alias for
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the `circle10' fonts. In some older
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TeX distributions the names are
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different.
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tex3patch This handles a bug for version
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3.0 of TeX that does not occur in
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more recent versions.
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