Where can I find Texinfo documentation?

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I want to write the manual for an open-source software. As the manual will contain several pages I considered texinfo the best option since the manual will be too long for a man page and the user should be able to open it in a ssh session.

However, I can not find a good tutorial or manual and the official documentation is too cryptic. Can you share a tutorial or manual about texinfo?

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 31 '15 at 09:37

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texinfo is a TeX format to typeset files in the GNU info format, so you are looking for a tutorial of that format. GNU info is documented in its own format, so a starter is the command

info info

on a GNU/Linux computer.

answered Jul 31 '15 at 09:37

Sir Cornflakes

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Thanks for the answer but I can not really see *texinfo* documentation using `info info` – Vicente Bolea Aug 02 '15 at 07:40
@Vicente Adolfo Bolea Sánchez As I said before, the input format for texinfo is just the GNU info format; there is no special texinfo input format. – Sir Cornflakes Aug 04 '15 at 15:39

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 10 '15 at 16:14

If you already know and use Emacs, you might want to write the document in Org-mode. Org can export to PDF, man, HTML, TexInfo, and other formats. Documentation and other info is available at http://orgmode.org/.

If you do not know Emacs, it has a rather steep learning curve. It might not be worth the investment in time (unless you plan on doing more of this sort of work in the future).

Where can I find Texinfo documentation?

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