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-Getting Started with Texinfo
-============================
-
-25 March 1993
-
-Most of the installation instructions are described in the file `INSTALL'.
-One additional note to make is that if your info files are in a nonstandard
-place (i.e. not in the `info' directory immediately under $prefix) you may
-wish to change the default info path as specified via DEFAULT_INFOPATH in
-info/Makefile.in.
-
-"Texinfo" is a documentation system that uses a single source file to
-produce both on-line information and printed output. Using Texinfo,
-you can create a printed document with the normal features of a book,
-including chapters, sections, cross references, and indices. From the
-same Texinfo source file, you can create a menu-driven, on-line Info
-file with nodes, menus, cross references, and indices.
-
-The name of the Texinfo source documentation file is `texinfo.texi'.
-You can produce both on-line information and printed output from this
-source file. The documentation describes Texinfo in detail, including
-how to write Texinfo files, how to format them for both hard copy and
-Info, and how to install Info files.
-
-To get started, you need to create either a printed manual or an
-on-line Info file from the `texinfo.texi' file. You do not need to
-create both, although you will probably want both eventually.
-
-To learn how to use Info, read the info documentation. You can do this in
-one of two ways: using the standalone `info' program, or using Info mode in
-GNU Emacs.
-
- * If you want to use the `info' program, type
-
- $ info -f info-stnd
-
- * If you want to use Emacs, start up emacs and type `C-h i' [M-x info].
- Follow the instructions to learn how to use Info.
-
-After learning how to use Info, you can read the Texinfo documentation.
-Using the standalone `info', type the following at the shell prompt:
-
- $ info -f texinfo
-
-To use read this manual in Emacs, you first need to edit the Info-directory
-menu (the file `dir' in the system info directory) to contain the
-appropriate node. To learn how to do this, see node: Add in the Info
-documentation.
-
-The Texinfo documentation describes Texinfo in detail; among other things,
-it tells how to install Info files in the usual manner. (See node: Install
-an Info File.)
-
-The `info-stnd.info' file describes the standalone Info reader in detail. To
-read this file, type
-
- $ info -f info-stnd
-
-If you are using GNU Emacs, you may want to install the Emacs Lisp files
-permanently. Move them them to a directory in the load-path for Emacs;
-otherwise Emacs will not be able to load the autoloaded support files, such
-as `texinfmt.el'.
-
-The `texinfo.el' file contains the autoload commands; it is the only
-file that needs to be loaded initially. If your Emacs does not
-automatically load `texinfo.el', you can tell it to do so by placing
-the following in `default.el' or in your `.emacs' file:
-
- (load "texinfo")
-
-
-To create a printed manual
-==========================
-
-You need:
-
- * The `tex' program, which typesets the manual using TeX.
- * The `texinfo.tex' definition file that tells TeX how to typeset
- a Texinfo file.
- * The `texindex' program, which sorts the unsorted index files
- created by TeX.
- * A printing program such as `lp' or `lpr',
- * A printer.
-
-This Texinfo distribution package contains `texinfo.tex', the C source
-for `texindex', and the handy shell script `texi2dvi'. The `tex'
-program is not part of this distribution, but is available separately.
-(See `How to Obtain TeX' in the Texinfo documentation.)
-
- * Install `tex'. (`texindex' is installed automagically by
- `make install' in this distribution.)
-
- * Move the `texinfo.tex' file to an appropriate directory; the current
- directory will do. (`/usr/local/lib/tex/inputs' might be a good place.
- See ``Preparing to Use TeX'' in the Texinfo manual, for more
- information.)
-
-After following those instructions, type the following to make the .dvi
-files:
-
- $ make texinfo.dvi
- $ (cd info; make info.dvi info-stnd.dvi)
- $ (cd makeinfo; make makeinfo.dvi)
-
-You can then print the resulting .dvi files with the `lpr' command (on BSD
-systems. On SysV systems the command is `lp'. Consult your man pages for
-more information).
-
-For example, the command to print the texinfo.dvi file might be:
-
- $ lpr -d texinfo.dvi
-
-The name of the printing command depends on the system; `lpr -d' is
-common, and is illustrated here. You may use a different name for the
-printing command.
-
-Please report bugs to bug-texinfo@prep.ai.mit.edu.
-
-Happy formatting.