texinfo/README

   1 This is the README file for the GNU Texinfo distribution.
   2 The primary distribution point is ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu.
   3
   4 Please email bugs or suggestions to bug-texinfo@gnu.org.  (If you wish,
   5 you can join this list by sending a subscribe message to
   6 bug-texinfo-request@gnu.org.)  Patches are welcome; if possible, please
   7 make them with diff -c and include ChangeLog entries.
   8
   9 Programs within this distribution have their own version numbers.  When
  10 you refer to a file, please mention its own version, as well as the
  11 version number of the Texinfo distribution.
  12
  13 For generic installation instructions on compiling and installing this
  14 Automake-based distribution, please read the file `INSTALL'.
  15 Installation notes specific to Texinfo:
  16
  17     * The Info tree uses a file `dir' as its root node; the `dir-example'
  18       file in this distribution is included for informative purposes.
  19       Use it, modify it, or ignore it just as you like.
  20
  21     * You can create a file texinfo.cnf to be read by TeX when
  22       processing Texinfo manuals.  For example, it might contain the
  23       command @afourpaper.  See the `Preparing for TeX' node in
  24       texinfo.texi for more details.
  25
  26     * If your info files are not in $prefix/info, you may wish to add a line
  27 #define DEFAULT_INFOPATH "/mydir1:/mydir2:/etc"
  28       to config.h after running configure.
  29
  30
  31 This distribution includes (but is not limited to) the following files:
  32
  33     README                      This file.
  34     INTRODUCTION                Brief introduction to the system, and
  35                                 how to create readable files from the
  36                                 Texinfo source files in this distribution.
  37
  38 Texinfo source files (in ./doc):
  39
  40     texinfo.texi                This manual describes the Texinfo language
  41                                 and many of the associated tools.  It
  42                                 tells how to use Texinfo to write
  43                                 documentation, how to use Texinfo mode
  44                                 in GNU Emacs, TeX, makeinfo, and the
  45                                 Emacs Lisp Texinfo formatting commands.
  46
  47     info.texi                   This manual tells you how to use
  48                                 Info.  This document comes as part of
  49                                 GNU Emacs.  If you do not have Emacs,
  50                                 you can format this Texinfo source
  51                                 file with makeinfo or TeX and then
  52                                 read the resulting Info file with the
  53                                 standalone Info reader that is part of
  54                                 this distribution.
  55
  56     info-stnd.texi              This manual tells you how to use
  57                                 the standalone GNU Info reader that is
  58                                 included in this distribution as C
  59                                 source (./info).
  60
  61 Printing related files:
  62
  63     doc/texinfo.tex             This TeX definitions file tells
  64                                 the TeX program how to typeset a
  65                                 Texinfo file into a DVI file ready for
  66                                 printing.
  67
  68     util/texindex.c             This file contains the source for
  69                                 the `texindex' program that generates
  70                                 sorted indices used by TeX when
  71                                 typesetting a file for printing.
  72
  73     util/texi2dvi               This is a shell script for
  74                                 producing an indexed DVI file using
  75                                 TeX and texindex. Must be used if the
  76                                 source document uses Texinfo @macros.
  77
  78
  79 Source files for standalone C programs (./lib, ./makeinfo, ./info):
  80
  81     makeinfo.c                  This file contains the source for
  82                                 the `makeinfo' program that you can
  83                                 use to create an Info file from a
  84                                 Texinfo file.
  85
  86     info.c                      This file contains the source for
  87                                 the `info' program that you can use to
  88                                 view Info files on an ASCII terminal.
  89
  90     getopt.c                    Various support files
  91     getopt1.c
  92     getopt.h
  93
  94
  95 Installation files:
  96
  97     configure                   This file creates a Makefile
  98                                 which in turn creates an `info' or
  99                                 `makeinfo' executable, or a C sources
 100                                 distribution.
 101
 102     configure.in                This is a template for creating
 103                                 `configure' using Autoconf.
 104
 105     Makefile.in                 This is a template for `configure'
 106                                 to use to make a Makefile.  Created by
 107                                 Automake.
 108
 109     Makefile.am                 This is a template for Automake
 110                                 to use to make a Makefile.in.
 111
 112
 113 Other files (util):
 114
 115     NEWS                        This contains a summary of new
 116                                 features since the first edition
 117                                 of Texinfo.
 118
 119     fixfonts                    This is a shell script to install the
 120                                 `lcircle10' TeX fonts as an alias for
 121                                 the `circle10' fonts.  In some older
 122                                 TeX distributions the names are
 123                                 different.
 124
 125     tex3patch                   This handles a bug for version
 126                                 3.0 of TeX that does not occur in
 127                                 more recent versions.