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diff --git a/contrib/texinfo/doc/README b/contrib/texinfo/doc/README index fe8e65444f89..c10fad9797a5 100644 --- a/contrib/texinfo/doc/README +++ b/contrib/texinfo/doc/README @@ -1,22 +1,30 @@ This directory contains documentation on the Texinfo system and the TeX -sources needed to process Texinfo sources. (Use texi2dvi to run a -Texinfo manual through TeX to produce a DVI file.) +sources needed to process Texinfo sources. We recommend using the +texi2dvi included in the distribution to run a Texinfo manual through +TeX to produce a DVI file. The .tex files are not installed automatically because TeX installations vary so widely. Installing them in the wrong place would give a false sense of security. So, you should simply cp *.tex to the appropriate place. If your installation follows the TeX Directory Structure -standard (http://www.tug.org/tds/), this will be the directory +standard (http://tug.org/tds/), this will be the directory <texmf>/tex/texinfo/ for texinfo.tex and <texmf>/tex/plain/dvips/ for epsf.tex. If you use the default installation paths, <texmf> will be -/usr/local/share/texmf. If you have teTeX, you can find <texmf> by -running: - texconfig confall | grep \^TEXMF= -(The configure script tries to do this for you.) +/usr/local/share/texmf. On systems with TeX preinstalled, as most +GNU/Linux distributions offer, <texmf> will often be something like +/usr/share/texmf. + +It is also possible to put these .tex files in a `local' place instead +of overwriting existing ones, but it is more complicated. See your TeX +documentation in general and the texmf.cnf file in particular for information. + +If you add files to your TeX installations, not just replace existing +ones, you very likely have to update your ls-R file; do this with the +mktexlsr command. In older versions, this was named MakeTeXls-R. You can get the latest texinfo.tex from -ftp://ftp.tug.org/tex/texinfo.tex -ftp://ftp.cs.umb.edu/pub/tex/texinfo.tex +ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/texinfo.tex (and all GNU mirrors) +ftp://tug.org/tex/texinfo.tex (and all CTAN mirrors) or on the FSF machines in /home/gd/gnu/doc/texinfo.tex. If you have problems with the version in this distribution, please check for a newer version. |