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Article #189700Re: standalone Info
From: Chet Murthy
Date: Sat, 01 Dec 1990 19:22
Date: Sat, 01 Dec 1990 19:22
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david@WUBIOS.WUSTL.EDU (David J. Camp) writes: >In Reply to this Note From: <Edwards John Andrew> >> >>can Info be run independently from emacs? that is, can the info >>documentation be browsed directly from the shell? >Sure, just get texi2roff from prep, install it and type: > texi2roff -ms filename.textinfo | nroff -ms - | less >However, this process is very slow, and you may wish to convert the >files to text once and read the text directly. >I suspect there is a way to do this directly with the TeX package, but >it is much larger than text2roff, and I did not have the time to >install it to find out. -David- Get texinfo.tex from the Emacs distribution and use it to format the info documents with TeX. Alternatively, use makeinfo to convert texinfo to Emacs info format, and use xinfo (posted to comp.sources.x) to read it. --chet--
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103b8b,736f20606f2be436 X-Google-Attributes: gid103b8b,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1990-12-01 11:22:42 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!mcsun!sunic!uupsi!rpi!julius.cs.uiuc.edu!psuvax1!rutgers!rochester!cornell!murthy From: murthy@algron.cs.cornell.edu (Chet Murthy) Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Subject: Re: standalone Info Message-ID: <49168@cornell.UUCP> Date: 1 Dec 90 19:22:42 GMT References: <jae.659749566@pv0327.vincent.iastate.edu> <9012011909.AA22176@wubios.wustl.edu> Sender: nobody@cornell.UUCP Organization: Cornell Univ. CS Dept. Ithaca NY Lines: 24 Posted: Sat Dec 1 20:22:42 1990