texinfo/README

   1 Texinfo, Version 3
   2 ==================
   3
   4 This is the README file for version 3 of the Texinfo distribution.
   5 Files within this distribution have their own version and edition
   6 numbers.  When you refer to a file, please mention its own number, as
   7 well as the version number of the Texinfo distribution.
   8
   9 PLEASE REPORT BUGS TO: bug-texinfo@prep.ai.mit.edu
  10
  11 Texinfo is a documentation system that uses a single source file to
  12 produce both on-line information and printed output.  This means that
  13 instead of writing two different documents, one for the on-line help
  14 or other on-line information and the other for a typeset manual or
  15 other printed work, you need write only one document.  When the work
  16 is revised, you need revise only one document.  You can read the
  17 on-line information, known as an "Info file", with an Info
  18 documentation-reading program.  By convention, Texinfo source file
  19 names end with a `.texi' or `.texinfo' extension.  Texinfo is
  20 described in the Texinfo manual (the file ./texinfo.texi).
  21
  22 You can write and format Texinfo files into Info files within GNU Emacs,
  23 and read them using the Emacs Info reader.  If you do not have Emacs,
  24 you can format Texinfo files into Info files using `makeinfo' and read
  25 them using `info'.  Use TeX, which is not included in this package (see
  26 `How to Obtain TeX' in the Texinfo manual for information), to typeset
  27 Texinfo files for printing.
  28
  29 For instructions on compiling and installing info, makeinfo, texi2dvi,
  30 and texindex, please read the file `INSTALL'.  The Emacs Lisp files are
  31 not installed by default; to install them, use `make install' in the
  32 `emacs' subdirectory.  The Info tree uses a file `dir' as its root node;
  33 a sample `dir' file is included in the distribution, but not installed
  34 anywhere. Use it or not as you like.
  35
  36 This distribution includes (but is not limited to) the following files:
  37
  38     README                      This file.
  39
  40     INTRODUCTION                This file tells you how to create
  41                                 readable files from the Texinfo source
  42                                 files in this distribution.
  43
  44 Texinfo source files:
  45
  46     texinfo.texi                This manual describes Texinfo.  It
  47                                 tells how to use Texinfo to write
  48                                 documentation, how to use Texinfo mode
  49                                 in GNU Emacs, how to use TeX,
  50                                 makeinfo, and the Emacs Lisp Texinfo
  51                                 formatting commands.
  52
  53     info.texi                   This manual tells you how to use
  54                                 Info.  This document comes as part of
  55                                 GNU Emacs.  If you do not have Emacs,
  56                                 you can format this Texinfo source
  57                                 file with makeinfo or TeX and then
  58                                 read the resulting Info file with the
  59                                 standalone Info reader that is part of
  60                                 this distribution.
  61
  62     info-stnd.texi              This manual tells you how to use
  63                                 the standalone GNU Info reader that is
  64                                 included in this distribution as a C
  65                                 source file, `info.c'.
  66
  67     makeinfo.texi               This manual tells you how to use
  68                                 makeinfo.  The same information is
  69                                 contained in a chapter of the Texinfo
  70                                 manual; it has been extracted here for
  71                                 your convenience.
  72
  73
  74 Printing related files:
  75
  76     texinfo.tex                 This TeX definitions file tells
  77                                 the TeX program how to typeset a
  78                                 Texinfo file into a DVI file ready for
  79                                 printing.
  80
  81     texindex.c                  This file contains the source for
  82                                 the `texindex' program that generates
  83                                 sorted indices used by TeX when
  84                                 typesetting a file for printing.
  85
  86     texi2dvi                    This is a shell script for
  87                                 producing an indexed DVI file using
  88                                 TeX and texindex. Must be used if the
  89                                 source document uses Texinfo @macros.
  90
  91
  92 GNU Emacs related files:
  93
  94     texinfmt.el                 This Emacs Lisp file provides the
  95                                 functions that GNU Emacs uses to
  96                                 format a Texinfo file into an Info
  97                                 file.
  98
  99     texinfo.el                  This file provides Texinfo mode
 100                                 for GNU Emacs.
 101
 102     texnfo-upd.el               These files provides commands to
 103     texnfo-tex.el               help you write Texinfo files
 104     makeinfo.el                 using GNU Emacs Texinfo mode.
 105
 106     detexinfo.el                This extra utility file contains functions
 107                                 to remove Texinfo commands from a
 108                                 Texinfo source file.
 109
 110     info.el                     These are the standard GNU Emacs
 111     informat.el                 Info reading and support files,
 112                                 included here for your convenience.
 113
 114
 115 Source files for standalone C programs:
 116
 117     makeinfo.c                  This file contains the source for
 118                                 the `makeinfo' program that you can
 119                                 use to create an Info file from a
 120                                 Texinfo file.
 121
 122     info.c                      This file contains the source for
 123                                 the `info' program that you can use to
 124                                 view Info files on an ASCII terminal.
 125
 126     getopt.c                    Various support files
 127     getopt1.c
 128     getopt.h
 129
 130
 131 C Installation files:
 132
 133     configure                   This file creates creates a Makefile
 134                                 which in turn creates an `info' or
 135                                 `makeinfo' executable, or a C sources
 136                                 distribution.
 137
 138     configure.in                This is a template for creating
 139                                 `configure' using m4 macros.
 140
 141     Makefile.in                 This is a template for `configure'
 142                                 to use to make a Makefile.
 143
 144
 145 Other files:
 146
 147     NEWS                        This contains a summary of new
 148                                 features since the first edition
 149                                 of Texinfo.
 150
 151     info.1                      This is a `man' page that briefly
 152                                 describes the standalone `info'
 153                                 program.
 154
 155     fixfonts                    This is a shell script to install the
 156                                 `lcircle10' TeX fonts as an alias for
 157                                 the `circle10' fonts.  In some older
 158                                 TeX distributions the names are
 159                                 different.
 160
 161     tex3patch                   This handles a bug for version
 162                                 3.0 of TeX that does not occur in
 163                                 more recent versions.