** How To View *.texi files **
Cho Lee
Hello to all :
Sorry if this is a novice question. I have files *.texi under
my directory /emacs/man. The question is how do I view this file
format under emacs. Or is there utilities that can be use to view
*.texi files. Or is there a utility that can convert *.texi -> *.dvi.
Does *.texi the same as *.tex I have look at the FAQ but it doesn't
explain it how clearly.
Any help is appreciated.
-- C. Lee
Uwe Bonnes
(Get makeinfo and) Type "makeinfo" to get help for makeinfo.
Uwe
Andy Jaworski
Let me give a few details. There are two ways of doing this.
(1) Run tex on the *.texi file. You will need the texinfo.tex file in your
current directory or in a directory on tex's search path. This should
produce a bunch of files such as *.ky and also the *.dvi file. The
files with two-letter extensions are different index files. They nedd to
be processed with texindex utility, but theis is not absolutely necessary.
The *.dvi file can be printed or viewed using, for example, xdvi.
(2) Get the makeinfo package as suggested above. Run makeinfo on the *.texi
file. This should produce a bunch of *.info files. Move these files
to emacs' info directory and update the dir file in this directory.
If you have the gzip utility, you can compress the info files (but not the
dir file). This will let you view the info-style documentation from
within emacs.
Hope this helps. All the stuff mentioned above can be obtained a GNU archive
and a TeX archive.
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George White 6-8509
Sorry if this is a novice question. I have files *.texi under
my directory /emacs/man. The question is how do I view this file
format under emacs. Or is there utilities that can be use to view
*.texi files. Or is there a utility that can convert *.texi -> *.dvi.
Does *.texi the same as *.tex I have look at the FAQ but it doesn't
explain it how clearly.
A nice way to view these files is to convert them to html format, which
you can browse with a WWW client such as Xmosaic. I have seen two
converters: one written in perl andone in Python. I use the latter --
it isn't perfect, but the glitches are minor (there are lots of versions
of texinfo in use, some documents use macros that the Python converter
doesn't translate, so you get little messes in the output but nothing
that affects the meaning.
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Andy Jaworski
A *.texi (or a texinfo file) is essentially a TeX file which has to be processed
using the texinfo macro file. To do this make sure that the texinfo.tex file is
either in your current directory or on your TeX's search path and run TeX on the
*.texi file. This should produce the *.dvi file which can be previewed using
xdvi (for example) or converted to PostScript and previewed using a PS viewer
such as Ghostview, for example.
Achim Gratz
The original poster wants to view it under emacs. You have to convert
the *.texi file into the info format. This is fairly simple. From
where you got the texinfo.tex file, you should also have got a
shellscript makeinfo (if not try "archie -s texinfo" and get the whole
packet). It produces one or more files for the info reader (either
standalone or built-in in emacs). You have to put the name in the
"dir" file (top node). Nowadays its usually located in /usr/local/info
along with all info files.
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