If you use dselect or apt, download "info" (texinfo) just for the reader. I did not find "texinfo" on the dselect list with a search. BTW, I'm going to try it with dwww--should be pretty cool. :-) For authoring, see Henning's message below.
Art On Wed, Jan 27, 1999 at 04:15:11AM +0100, Henning Makholm wrote: > Olaf Meeuwissen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Tue, 26 Jan 1999 21:08:28 +0000 "Alfie Costa" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > > > I've volunteered for a bit of GNU proofreading, and have been sent a > > > file to proof portions of, written in something called Texinfo > > > format, or infotex -- I'm not clear on the exact difference. > > It is 'texinfo'. That is GNU's favorite documentation format. > > The texinfo source can be compiled into either > .dvi (which can be printed to postscript printers with dvips) > or .info (which can be browsed on-line with the C-H i command in > emacs or the standalone 'info' program). > > The commands that do that are texinfo (for making a .dvi) and makeinfo > (for making a .info). > > > You need to have the `texinfo' package installed. > > No, the texinfo authoring tools are in the tetex-bin and tetex-base > packages (at least in hamm, that is). The dvips program one need > for making printable postscript from the .dvi is in tetex-bin, too. > > The stand-alone info reader (which is for making sense out of *.info > if one hasn't any emacs) has its own package, in section doc. > > -- > Henning Makholm > http://www.diku.dk/students/makholm > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null >
