[comp.text.tex] What is TEXINFO???

meadows@cslvax.weeg.uiowa.edu (05/10/91)

    I recently received a file that looked like a LaTeX source file (sort of),
but the extension was .TEXINFO, and the first few lines looked like this:

\input texinfo.tex @c -*- texinfo -*-
@c %**start of header
@setfilename features.info
@settitle Bash Features
@c %**end of header

@setchapternewpage odd
@synindex fn cp
@ifinfo

When I tried to run it through TeX or LaTeX it complained rightfully that I
had no TEXINFO.TEX file, and went crazy. My question is "what is TEXINFO?", 
and "What can I do to process this file?".

Howard


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Damian.Cugley@prg.ox.ac.uk (Damian Cugley) (05/10/91)

texinfo is a format used to document GNU programs produced by the free
Software Foundation, such as Emacs and BASH.  It can be converted into
Info format (used in Emacs's Info browsing system) or TeXed using
texinfo.tex, a copy of which should be included with any GNU package
that has documentation in texinfo format.

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