emcmanus@cs.tcd.ie (Eamonn McManus) (08/10/90)
Is there a program for reading texinfo files (the GNU documentation format) without using GNU emacs? Please reply by mail. -- Eamonn McManus <emcmanus@cs.tcd.ie> <emcmanus%cs.tcd.ie@cunyvm.cuny.edu> Cats are aliens too.
pd1h+@andrew.cmu.edu (Philip H. Dye) (08/13/90)
I got the following package from mit some time ago but I have been too busy to test it. TI README file ---------------------------------------------------------------------- TI is a browser for texinfo files. Texinfo is a document format which can be fed through TeX to produce hardcopy, or can be browsed as a hierarchical document. The format was developed by the Free Software Foundation, and you can find out more about it by typing M-x info in GnuEmacs. This browser reads in unprocessed texinfo files and displays them in the appropriate type faces and sizes. There are buttons for the next and previous nodes, and a button to go up one level. As in the text-based Emacs texinfo mode, the keys N, P and U do the same thing. Cross references appear as a special arrow symbol. Clicking on the arrow follows the cross-reference. Typing the I key pops up the index, and clicking on any entry in it takes you to the appropriate node. TI is a small application wrapped around what is more or less a widget for texinfo browsing. The widget still needs to be cleaned up and documented. There are still some segmentation violations in the code. Invoke TI with the name of a texinfo file as the argument. A sample file, cpp.texinfo is included with the source code. It is the documentation on the C pre-processor that is part of teh GNU CC distribution.
emcmanus@cs.tcd.ie (Eamonn McManus) (08/15/90)
I wrote: >Is there a program for reading texinfo files (the GNU documentation >format) without using GNU emacs? Please reply by mail. I got a number of replies, and thank everyone who took the trouble. Unfortunately I was rather too terse in this message. What I wanted was a program that would do what the emacs Info package does, namely browse texinfo files online, on a dumb terminal. I know about printing documents off with TeX and I have the source for xinfo, but is there a reader for dumb terminals? If not, would there be interest if I were to try to hack xinfo into one? -- Eamonn McManus <emcmanus@cs.tcd.ie> <emcmanus%cs.tcd.ie@cunyvm.cuny.edu>
djm@eng.umd.edu (David J. MacKenzie) (08/15/90)
FSF has a termcap-based info reader called "info.c", written by Brian Fox (author of bash), but we haven't released it yet, I think because it should use curses instead of raw termcap so parts of it need to be rewritten. -- David J. MacKenzie <djm@eng.umd.edu> <djm@ai.mit.edu>
michael@uni-paderborn.de (Michael Schmidt) (08/18/90)
david> FSF has a termcap-based info reader called "info.c", written by Brian
david> Fox (author of bash), but we haven't released it yet, I think because
david> it should use curses instead of raw termcap so parts of it need to be
david> rewritten.
"manavendra> I read recently in this newsgroup about a program called
"manavendra> xinfo, which is supposed to be an X Windows program that
"manavendra> allows a user to browse through info files. Does such a
"manavendra> program really exist, or am I imagining things?
There is an X11 based info tree browser. comp.sources.x: v06i093 by
jkh@meepmeep.pcs.com. It works just fine here.
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