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Re: random texinfo questions
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Ovidiu Predescu |
Subject: |
Re: random texinfo questions |
Date: |
Tue, 19 Jun 2001 15:47:03 -0700 |
On Tue, 19 Jun 2001 18:31:37 -0400, David Petrou <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi. I have a few unrelated questions regarding texinfo.
>
> 1. I'm trying to make nice html documentation out of texinfo source.
> I see some really great pages off the GNU homepage, where you have the
> option of viewing the whole documentation as one html file, or split
> by chapter, etc. (example:
> http://www.gnu.org/manual/autoconf/index.html). However, `makeinfo
> --html foo.texi' doesn't seem nearly as nice. Is there some other
> tool out there that I don't know about?
You can use texi2html:
http://www.mathematik.uni-kl.de/~obachman/Texi2html
> 2. I'd like dvi output of my texinfo documentation to be compiled with
> frenchspacing turned on in TeX. I've tried putting the TeX command
> \frenchspacing (or @frenchspacing) in various locations of my texinfo
> file, but it doesn't seem to have an effect on the dvi output. Any
> suggestions?
Don't know about this.
> 3. I'm trying to figure out where in my texinfo file I should put my
> copyright information. I've carefully read the texinfo documentation
> on this topic, but its recommendations seem vague. My goal is for the
> copyright information to appear in the printed manual, html manual,
> and info manual exactly once. (If this goal is wrong, let me know.)
>
> The texinfo documentation section `Four parts begin a file' says that
> the copyright notice should go in the title page that only appears in
> the printed manual. Then this node goes on to say that I can include
> the copyright as the first node of the info file. The problem with
> doing this is that in the printed version, the copyright will be
> repeated twice (once after the title page, once as the first node).
>
> (Also, as per the `The Title and Copyright Pages' node, I'm including
> a copy of the copyright notice within an @ifinfo that I know will not
> show up in info readers. I'm not really sure what the purpose of this
> is.)
I follow the pattern described here, and seems to be working fine for
me.
Regards,
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