thomson@cs.utah.edu (Rich Thomson) (02/06/90)
I've been trying to create some texinfo files of my own for connecting
together bibliographic entries in a network that I could wander.
I haven't been able to get Info to read my file with the info directives in
it. The INFO instructions say to edit the top-level file 'dir', but that
means that I must edit this global file to the entire document tree. Isn't
there any way to have a document tree rooted in a directory of my own
choosing?
Thanks in advance.
-- Rich
Rich Thomson thomson@cs.utah.edu {bellcore,hplabs,uunet}!utah-cs!thomson
More Colombians are killed by American cigarettes
than Americans by Colombian cocainerich@Rice.edu (Richard Murphey) (02/06/90)
In article <1990Feb5.215942.2152@hellgate.utah.edu> thomson@cs.utah.edu (Rich Thomson) writes:
Isn't
there any way to have a document tree rooted in a directory of my own
choosing?
If your info file is named `~/foo/bar.info' then after entering info
mode (using `C-h i') use `g(~/foo/bar.info)top'. This will take you
to the top node of your documentation.
You can use `M-x texinfo-format-buffer' to convert a texinfo file to
an info file and `M-x Info-validate' to check the labeling of the
nodes.
Dewhurst, Stephen C. and Kathy T. Stark. @emph{Programming in C++}.
Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1989. ISBN 0-13-723156-3.
You also mention bibliographic references... Does anyone have a GNU
style for references? For example:
Perhaps volume numbers for journals should be in @strong.
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Rich@rice.edumerlyn@iwarp.intel.com (Randal Schwartz) (02/07/90)
In article <1990Feb5.215942.2152@hellgate.utah.edu>, thomson@cs (Rich Thomson) writes: | I've been trying to create some texinfo files of my own for connecting | together bibliographic entries in a network that I could wander. | | I haven't been able to get Info to read my file with the info directives in | it. The INFO instructions say to edit the top-level file 'dir', but that | means that I must edit this global file to the entire document tree. Isn't | there any way to have a document tree rooted in a directory of my own | choosing? (describe-variable 'Info-directory) ==> " Info-directory's value is "/r/merlyn/.elib/info" " " Documentation: " Default directory for Info documentation files. I have (setq Info-directory (expand-file-name "~/.elib/info")) in my .emacs. In there, I copied the file 'dir', and made symlinks of all the other files in the old "Info-directory" (note that first *before* you change the value :-). I then added entries to the bottom of 'dir' referring to my local info nodes. If you need more details, let me know. It's too bad there's not a search path on Info-dirs. -- /=Randal L. Schwartz, Stonehenge Consulting Services (503)777-0095 ==========\ | on contract to Intel's iWarp project, Beaverton, Oregon, USA, Sol III | | merlyn@iwarp.intel.com ...!any-MX-mailer-like-uunet!iwarp.intel.com!merlyn | \=Cute Quote: "Welcome to Portland, Oregon, home of the California Raisins!"=/