russell@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz (Russell J Fulton;ccc032u) (10/31/90)
I am trying to set up a system for producing local documentation. I want to use LaTeX and be able to produce both hard copy and machine readable versions of the documents. At the moment I am experimenting with screen.sty and crudetype to for the machine readable versions. The problem is that crudetype doulble spaces the output. I can fix that by using the -s option to 'squash' the output but this removes *all* vertical white space. How do others handle this problem? On a slightly different topic. I was scanning some back issues of TUGBOAT to see if I could find any help with this problem when I came across an article by Marcus Brown of Texas A&M in Vol. 9 no. 1, April '88, about an ascii terminal previer. The article suggested that this would be available in March '88. Is it available? and if so from where? What is it like to use? Cheers, Russell. -- Russell Fulton, Computer Center, University of Auckland, New Zealand. <rj_fulton@aukuni.ac.nz>
Dan_Jacobson@ATT.COM (11/01/90)
>>>>> On 31 Oct 90 00:55:39 GMT, russell@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz (Russell J
Fulton;) said:
Russell> I am trying to set up a system for producing local documentation.
Russell> I want to use LaTeX and be able to produce both hard copy and machine
Russell> readable versions of the documents.
What about TeXinfo/GNU Emacs (from prep.ai.mit.edu) & LaTeXinfo (from ???)?
being ever so helpful, here's part of the manual:
Overview of Texinfo
*******************
Texinfo is a documentation system that uses a single source file for
both on-line help and a printed manual. This means that instead of
writing two different documents, one for the on-line help and the
other for the printed manual, only one document needs to be written.
When the system is revised, only one file has to be revised.
Using Texinfo, you can create a document with the normal features of
a book such as chapters, sections, cross references and indices. The
chapters and sections of the printed manual can be made to correspond
to the nodes of the on-line help. The cross references and indices
can be used in both the on-line help and in the printed document.
Indices are generated semi-automatically. The ``GNU Emacs Manual''
is a good example of a Texinfo file.
To make the printed manual, the Texinfo source file is processed by
the TeX typesetting program; the resulting DVI file can be typeset
and printed as a book. To make the on-line help, the Texinfo source
file is by processed the `M-x texinfo-format-buffer' command; the
resulting Info file is installed in the `info' directory.
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