Return-Path: owner-linux-activists@Niksula.hut.fi Return-Path: Received: from joker.cs.hut.fi by hydra.Helsinki.FI (4.1/SMI-4.1/39) id AA23597; Wed, 7 Jul 93 11:49:38 +0300 Received: from joker.cs.hut.fi by niksula.hut.fi id <61511-6>; Wed, 7 Jul 1993 11:48:04 +0300 From: "Linux Activists" To: "Linux-Activists" Reply-To: "Linux-Activists" X-Note1: Remember to put 'X-Mn-Key: DOC' to your mail body or header Subject: Linux-Activists - DOC Channel digest. 93-6-7-6:39 X-Mn-Key: DOC Sender: owner-linux-activists@Niksula.hut.fi Message-Id: <93Jul7.114804eet_dst.61511-6@niksula.hut.fi> Date: Wed, 7 Jul 1993 11:47:57 +0300 Status: RO X-Status: Topics: texinfo conversions texinfo conversions ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Olaf Kirch Subject: texinfo conversions Date: Tue, 6 Jul 1993 20:59:59 +0300 dminer@nyx.cs.du.edu (Dan Miner) wrote: > It there a "fairly" easy to convert texinfo > files to something more traditional? Like ps, man for > even plain ascii? I'd prefer PostScript.. :) In the upcoming version of the new NAG, I include a roff version derived from texinfo sources. I used texi2roff to produce this. It's capable of producing -mm, -me, and -ms macros. It supports pretty much all texinfo commands, but has the disadvantage that it's organized as a finite state machine. This makes nested formatting commands hard. > I've never had ANY luck at displaying texinfo files. I've > tried compiling the displayer; wouldn't compile. Get texinfo-3.1. This compiles out of the box for me. When I started out, I also had a very old version I got to compile after heavy pushing, but never ran properly -- Olaf Kirch okir@mathematik.th-darmstadt.de, okir@monad.swb.de ------------------------------ From: Olaf Kirch Subject: texinfo conversions Date: Tue, 6 Jul 1993 20:59:59 +0300 dminer@nyx.cs.du.edu (Dan Miner) wrote: > It there a "fairly" easy to convert texinfo > files to something more traditional? Like ps, man for > even plain ascii? I'd prefer PostScript.. :) In the upcoming version of the new NAG, I include a roff version derived from texinfo sources. I used texi2roff to produce this. It's capable of producing -mm, -me, and -ms macros. It supports pretty much all texinfo commands, but has the disadvantage that it's organized as a finite state machine. This makes nested formatting commands hard. > I've never had ANY luck at displaying texinfo files. I've > tried compiling the displayer; wouldn't compile. Get texinfo-3.1. This compiles out of the box for me. When I started out, I also had a very old version I got to compile after heavy pushing, but never ran properly -- Olaf Kirch okir@mathematik.th-darmstadt.de, okir@monad.swb.de ------------------------------ End of DOC Digest ***************** ------- .