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Texinfo is a typesetting syntax used for generating documentation in both on-line and printed form (creating filetypes as dvi, html, pdf, etc., and its own hypertext format, info) with a single source file. It is a creation of the GNU Project, and used to produce documentation for GNU software (e.g. emacs, screen, glibc).

Texinfo is a typesetting syntax used for generating documentation in both on-line and printed form (creating filetypes as dvi, html, pdf, etc., and its own hypertext format, info) with a single source file. It is a creation of the GNU Project, and used to produce documentation for GNU software (e.g. emacs, screen, glibc). Its homepage is located at http://www.gnu.org/s/texinfo/ and its manual at http://www.gnu.org/s/texinfo/manual/texinfo/texinfo.html.

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In texinfo, how to specify a bash single quote?

I am writing a package using the GNU build system. The documentation hence is in the texinfo format. As a result, executing make converts the texinfo file into the info format, and executing make pdf automatically produces a pdf file. In the texinfo…
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Texinfo, how to deal with impossible next / previous?

I'm trying to write documentation in Texinfo format (must be traditional to Emacs, I guess). And it is a nightmare... Anyway, I could get to the point, where the source gives me less error then when I started, but the errors are impossible to…
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How do I generate asconfig.texi when compiling GNU binutils' gas from git cloned source?

I have cloned the binutils-gdb repository from git://sourceware.org/git/binutils-gdb.git, checked out the tag binutils-2_40 (commit 32778522c7d8777803c88684b8e428ee729f0b22), in a separate directory run ../../binutils-gdb/configure which generated a…
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How do I include pseudo-code in a Texinfo manual?

I have a manual for a system that is written in Texinfo. You may see it (compiled to HTML) here. My problem is that the manual (which was translated from an original in an ancient version of Microsoft Word) contains a pseudocode presentation of…
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makeinfo command not found in pbuilder-dist

I am trying following tutorial in Ubuntu 18.04.5 LTS (in docker in MacOS Catalina 10.15.4). https://packaging.ubuntu.com/html/packaging-new-software.html When I exec command below in step 4.4. Next Steps, I got error…
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I get an error when trying to do TexInfo PDF output

https://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/manual/texinfo/texinfo.html#Short-Sample-Texinfo-File In the sample code of the above URL, using TexInfo, I am trying to output PDF, but the following error occurs. $ makeinfo --pdf…
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texi2dvi hangs with interactive prompt

I have been trying to format a manual using texi2dvi --pdf. When I try to do so, it runs to what looks like completion, but then drops me into the TeX interactive prompt, *, with the message: (Please type a command or say `\end') Unfortunately,…
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how to fix GNU assembler (gas) documentation failing to build using mingw64 / msys2?

I'm getting errors like this when building binutils-gdb (the gas doc is failing to build). Has anyone seen this before or know how to fix it? /d/git/binutils-gdb/binutils-gdb-git/gas/doc/as.texi:635: table requires an argument: the formatter for…
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Where can I find Texinfo documentation?

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,…
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installing texinfo on redhat centos 7 ppc64

I am new to RedHat and would like some help to install R-devel. I tried to install it using the following command: yum install R-devel but leads to the first error below... I am on CentOS 7 with a ppc64 architecture... I have got to the point of…
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Specify makeinfo to be used in make command

On OS X Yosemite, the standart texinfo version is quite old and does not suppprt certain features. I now have installed, via homebrew, a newer version. As there is an already existing version, the binaries are not put into the PATH (keg only), which…
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texinfo include HTML header from file

I am writing a Texinfo manual, and for its HTML I need to include the contents of another file into the ... section of the HTML output. To be more specific, I want to add mathjax capability to the HTML version of the output to show…
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Emacs reference cards from my wall to emacs

I've become very reliant on some of the emacs reference cards - so much that I sometimes have to get up from my laptop and go to the room where my printed copies are hanging on the wall. Is there an easy way to get the reference shown in emacs in…
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Internationalization of Texinfo

I am a novice user of Texinfo. I wanna know whether it is possible to write my manual, which is in Persian, using Texinfo or not. I know how to write in English but in Persian not. Thanks in advance
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How to read info-documentation as pdf?

(Almost) all GNU programs ship info documentation that is viewable with info . This uses a TUI for displaying the documentation. I dislike this, since it is hardly readable. Given the .texi-files, on can also generate a pdf-file from the…
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