Re: Q: writing and printing texinfo files

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From: Timothy Murphy
Date: Tue, 14 Mar 1995 19:09

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zender@sage.cgd.ucar.edu (Charlie Zender) writes:

>i am really trying to figure out how texinfo files work.
>as an example, i downloaded the latest latex documentation
>i could find, latex2e.texi, which is some sort of texinfo
>file. i thought you could just run
>this file through latex, generating a .dvi file, and then
>dvips it for hardcopy. this doesn't work.

(1) You're meant to "tex" the file, not "latex" it.

(2) You must have the file texinfo.tex somewhere in TEXINPUTS,
as .texi files always read this in at the beginning.
You can get the latest version from prep.ai.mit.edu in pub/gnu
as part of the texinfo distribution.

-- 
Timothy Murphy  
e-mail: tim@maths.tcd.ie
tel: +353-1-2842366
s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland

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