[673b0d8] | 1 | <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
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[1770019] | 2 | <!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.4//EN" "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.4/docbookx.dtd" [
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[673b0d8] | 3 | <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../general.ent">
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| 4 | %general-entities;
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| 5 | ]>
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[81fd230] | 6 | <sect1 id="ch-system-texinfo" role="wrap">
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[673b0d8] | 7 | <title>Texinfo-&texinfo-version;</title>
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| 8 | <?dbhtml filename="texinfo.html"?>
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| 9 |
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| 10 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-texinfo"><primary sortas="a-Texinfo">Texinfo</primary></indexterm>
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[6370fa6] | 11 |
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[a001133] | 12 | <sect2 role="package"><title/>
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[81fd230] | 13 | <para>The Texinfo package contains programs for reading, writing, and
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[37428334] | 14 | converting info pages.</para>
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[5888299] | 15 |
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[a001133] | 16 | <segmentedlist>
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| 17 | <segtitle>&buildtime;</segtitle>
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| 18 | <segtitle>&diskspace;</segtitle>
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[fc1024a] | 19 | <seglistitem><seg>0.2 SBU</seg><seg>14.7 MB</seg></seglistitem>
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[a001133] | 20 | </segmentedlist>
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[673b0d8] | 21 |
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[81fd230] | 22 | <segmentedlist>
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[45992ae] | 23 | <segtitle>&dependencies;</segtitle>
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[81fd230] | 24 | <seglistitem><seg>Bash, Binutils, Coreutils,
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| 25 | Diffutils, GCC, Gettext, Glibc, Grep, Make, Ncurses, and Sed</seg></seglistitem>
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| 26 | </segmentedlist>
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[a001133] | 27 | </sect2>
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[3554fa3a] | 28 |
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[a001133] | 29 | <sect2 role="installation">
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[73aedd1d] | 30 | <title>Installation of Texinfo</title>
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| 31 |
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[2ca7e114] | 32 | <para>Prepare Texinfo for compilation:</para>
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| 33 |
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[73aedd1d] | 34 | <screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr</userinput></screen>
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| 35 |
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| 36 | <para>Compile the package:</para>
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| 37 |
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| 38 | <screen><userinput>make</userinput></screen>
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| 39 |
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[673b0d8] | 40 | <para>To test the results, issue:
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[8a5f906] | 41 | <userinput>make check</userinput>.</para>
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[73aedd1d] | 42 |
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| 43 | <para>Install the package:</para>
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| 44 |
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| 45 | <screen><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>
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| 46 |
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[81fd230] | 47 | <para>Optionally, install the components belonging in a TeX installation:</para>
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[73aedd1d] | 48 |
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| 49 | <screen><userinput>make TEXMF=/usr/share/texmf install-tex</userinput></screen>
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| 50 |
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[81fd230] | 51 | <para>The meaning of the make parameter:</para>
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| 52 |
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| 53 | <variablelist>
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| 54 | <varlistentry>
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| 55 | <term><parameter>TEXMF=/usr/share/texmf</parameter></term>
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| 56 | <listitem><para>The <envar>TEXMF</envar> makefile variable holds the location of the
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| 57 | root of the TeX tree if, for example, a TeX package will be installed
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| 58 | later.</para></listitem>
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| 59 | </varlistentry>
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| 60 | </variablelist>
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| 61 |
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| 62 | <para>The Info documentation system uses a plain text file to hold its
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| 63 | list of menu entries. The file is located at
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| 64 | <filename>/usr/share/info/dir</filename>. Unfortunately, due to
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| 65 | occasional problems in the Makefiles of various packages, it can
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[37428334] | 66 | sometimes get out of sync with the info pages installed on the
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[81fd230] | 67 | system. If the <filename>/usr/share/info/dir</filename> file ever
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| 68 | needs to be recreated, the following optional commands will accomplish
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| 69 | the task:</para>
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[554b366] | 70 |
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| 71 | <screen><userinput>cd /usr/share/info
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| 72 | rm dir
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| 73 | for f in *
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[673b0d8] | 74 | do install-info $f dir 2>/dev/null
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[554b366] | 75 | done</userinput></screen>
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| 76 |
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[94a4a77] | 77 | <beginpage/>
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| 78 |
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[73aedd1d] | 79 | </sect2>
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[6370fa6] | 80 |
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[c6cb3aa] | 81 | <sect2 id="contents-texinfo" role="content"><title>Contents of Texinfo</title>
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[673b0d8] | 82 |
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[81fd230] | 83 | <segmentedlist>
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| 84 | <segtitle>Installed programs</segtitle>
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| 85 | <seglistitem><seg>info, infokey, install-info,
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| 86 | makeinfo, texi2dvi, and texindex</seg></seglistitem>
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| 87 | </segmentedlist>
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| 88 |
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| 89 | <variablelist><bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
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| 90 | <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
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[8f97096] | 91 | <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
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[81fd230] | 92 |
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| 93 | <varlistentry id="info">
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| 94 | <term><command>info</command></term>
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| 95 | <listitem>
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[37428334] | 96 | <para>Used to read info pages which are similar to man pages, but often go much
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| 97 | deeper than just explaining all the available command line options. For example,
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| 98 | compare <command>man bison</command> and <command>info bison</command>.</para>
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[81fd230] | 99 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-texinfo info"><primary sortas="b-info">info</primary></indexterm>
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| 100 | </listitem>
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| 101 | </varlistentry>
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| 102 |
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| 103 | <varlistentry id="infokey">
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| 104 | <term><command>infokey</command></term>
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| 105 | <listitem>
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| 106 | <para>Compiles a source file containing Info customizations into a
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| 107 | binary format</para>
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| 108 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-texinfo infokey"><primary sortas="b-infokey">infokey</primary></indexterm>
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| 109 | </listitem>
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| 110 | </varlistentry>
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| 111 |
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| 112 | <varlistentry id="install-info">
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| 113 | <term><command>install-info</command></term>
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| 114 | <listitem>
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[37428334] | 115 | <para>Used to install info pages; it updates entries in the
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| 116 | <command>info</command> index file</para>
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[81fd230] | 117 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-texinfo install-info"><primary sortas="b-install-info">install-info</primary></indexterm>
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| 118 | </listitem>
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| 119 | </varlistentry>
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| 120 |
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| 121 | <varlistentry id="makeinfo">
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| 122 | <term><command>makeinfo</command></term>
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| 123 | <listitem>
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| 124 | <para>Translates the given Texinfo source documents into
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[37428334] | 125 | info pages, plain text, or HTML</para>
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[81fd230] | 126 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-texinfo makeinfo"><primary sortas="b-makeinfo">makeinfo</primary></indexterm>
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| 127 | </listitem>
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| 128 | </varlistentry>
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| 129 |
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| 130 | <varlistentry id="texi2dvi">
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| 131 | <term><command>texi2dvi</command></term>
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| 132 | <listitem>
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| 133 | <para>Used to format the given Texinfo document into a
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| 134 | device-independent file that can be printed</para>
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| 135 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-texinfo texi2dvi"><primary sortas="b-texi2dvi">texi2dvi</primary></indexterm>
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| 136 | </listitem>
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| 137 | </varlistentry>
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| 138 |
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| 139 | <varlistentry id="texindex">
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| 140 | <term><command>texindex</command></term>
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| 141 | <listitem>
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| 142 | <para>Used to sort Texinfo index files</para>
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| 143 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-texinfo texindex"><primary sortas="b-texindex">texindex</primary></indexterm>
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| 144 | </listitem>
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| 145 | </varlistentry>
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| 146 | </variablelist>
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[673b0d8] | 147 |
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| 148 | </sect2>
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| 149 |
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| 150 | </sect1>
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[81fd230] | 151 |
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