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author | Matthew Burgess <matthew@linuxfromscratch.org> | 2004-05-03 10:59:46 +0000 |
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committer | Matthew Burgess <matthew@linuxfromscratch.org> | 2004-05-03 10:59:46 +0000 |
commit | 673b0d84ba9591e07c0bdf0ee49d92eba10f502c (patch) | |
tree | 129e27a1450727b440da4378e0117a468eb9c25e /chapter06/texinfo.xml | |
parent | 287ea55da70ceb1f0990554b7db921d525fef816 (diff) |
* Merged newxml into HEAD
git-svn-id: http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@3435 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689
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1 files changed, 54 insertions, 13 deletions
diff --git a/chapter06/texinfo.xml b/chapter06/texinfo.xml index f9e8cff54..a2a672d84 100644 --- a/chapter06/texinfo.xml +++ b/chapter06/texinfo.xml @@ -1,17 +1,24 @@ +<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?> +<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.3//EN" "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.3/docbookx.dtd" [ + <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../general.ent"> + %general-entities; +]> <sect1 id="ch-system-texinfo" xreflabel="Texinfo"> -<title>Installing Texinfo-&texinfo-version;</title> -<?dbhtml filename="texinfo.html" dir="chapter06"?> +<title>Texinfo-&texinfo-version;</title> +<?dbhtml filename="texinfo.html"?> + +<indexterm zone="ch-system-texinfo"><primary sortas="a-Texinfo">Texinfo</primary></indexterm> <para>The Texinfo package contains programs for reading, writing, and converting Info documents.</para> -<screen>&buildtime; &texinfo-time; -&diskspace; &texinfo-compsize;</screen> +<screen>&buildtime; 0.2 SBU +&diskspace; 17 MB</screen> + +<para>Texinfo installation depends on: Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, +Diffutils, GCC, Gettext, Glibc, Grep, Make, Ncurses, Sed.</para> -&aa-texinfo-down; -&aa-texinfo-dep; -<sect2><title> </title><para> </para></sect2> <sect2> <title>Installation of Texinfo</title> @@ -24,14 +31,14 @@ converting Info documents.</para> <screen><userinput>make</userinput></screen> -<para>To have the results tested, issue: +<para>To test the results, issue: <userinput>make check</userinput>.</para> <para>Install the package:</para> <screen><userinput>make install</userinput></screen> -<para>And optionally install the components belonging in a TeX installation:</para> +<para>Optionally install the components belonging in a TeX installation:</para> <screen><userinput>make TEXMF=/usr/share/texmf install-tex</userinput></screen> @@ -54,13 +61,47 @@ will accomplish the task:</para> <screen><userinput>cd /usr/share/info rm dir for f in * -do install-info $f dir 2>/dev/null +do install-info $f dir 2>/dev/null done</userinput></screen> </sect2> -&aa-texinfo-shortdesc; -&aa-texinfo-desc; -</sect1> +<sect2 id="contents-texinfo"><title>Contents of Texinfo</title> + +<para><emphasis>Installed programs</emphasis>: info, infokey, install-info, +makeinfo, texi2dvi and texindex</para> + +</sect2> + +<sect2><title>Short descriptions</title> + +<indexterm zone="ch-system-texinfo info"><primary sortas="b-info">info</primary></indexterm> +<para id="info"><command>info</command> is used to read Info documents. Info +documents are a bit like man pages, but often go much deeper than just +explaining all the flags. Compare for example man tar and info tar.</para> + +<indexterm zone="ch-system-texinfo infokey"><primary sortas="b-infokey">infokey</primary></indexterm> +<para id="infokey"><command>infokey</command> compiles a source file containing Info +customizations into a binary format.</para> +<indexterm zone="ch-system-texinfo install-info"><primary sortas="b-install-info">install-info</primary></indexterm> +<para id="install-info"><command>install-info</command> is used to install Info files. It +updates entries in the Info index file.</para> + +<indexterm zone="ch-system-texinfo makeinfo"><primary sortas="b-makeinfo">makeinfo</primary></indexterm> +<para id="makeinfo"><command>makeinfo</command> translates the given Texinfo source +documents into various other formats: Info files, plain text, or HTML.</para> + +<indexterm zone="ch-system-texinfo texi2dvi"><primary sortas="b-texi2dvi">texi2dvi</primary></indexterm> +<para id="texi2dvi"><command>texi2dvi</command> is used to format the given Texinfo +document into a device-independent file that can be printed.</para> + +<indexterm zone="ch-system-texinfo texindex"><primary sortas="b-texindex">texindex</primary></indexterm> +<para id="texindex"><command>texindex</command> is used to sort Texinfo index files.</para> + +</sect2> + + + +</sect1> |