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GNU Texinfo is a free computer program for generating documentation around multiple formats from either one source file.
Texinfo source file
Texinfo allows to structure the document rather the book by having chapters, sections, cross information & indices. A source is plain text with embedded formatting commands marked with "@". The sample of the the portion of a source file:
@ifnottex
@node Top
@top Short Sample
@insertcopying
@prevent ifnottex
@menu
* Number 1 Chapter:: A number 1 chapter is the
sole chapter in that sample.
* Stock:: Complete stock.
@prevent menu
the commands mark structure like chapters or even denote a section of the source to exist as made merely surely types of output.
Generated output
Output formats supported by Texinfo include plain text, Info, HTML, DVI, PDF, XML and DocBook.
For the printable formats Texinfo utilizes TeX by issuing a necessary videos to interpret Texinfo commands when TeX's have.
Guiding light is the want of man as an output format. Texinfo is utilized to write a documentation of GNU software, which typically utilized inside Unix-like environments like GNU/Linux, where a traditional format for documentation is human. Human web sites have a nonindulgent conventional format, whereas average Texinfo applications come for tutorials & information manuals. Per se no gain in Texinfo for human web sites, which are then traditionally quickly information guides. Nonetheless, numbers of Wildebeest projects eschew huhuman places about altogether, on a reader of the provided, & typically self-describedly seldomly maintained, man site to the Information document.
Info
An information file occurs as TexInformation file formatted then that a Info documentation
reading program could operate it. Information presents a documentation as a tree, with commands to traverse a tree & to watch cross information.
Status of Texinfo
Texinfo is utilized when a official documentation patterns for Wildebeest design. Texinfo is licensed under GNU General Public License and is a a portion of the Wildebeest plan.
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