Texinfo - GNU Documentation System - GNU Project
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An introductory
article written by Arnold Robbins.
Other programs/etc.
- gdoc, for extracting Texinfo (and other format) documentation from source files.
- ltxindex, for typesetting indices of LaTeX documents with Texinfo's texindex program.
- Textadept, a customizable editor that includes a Texinfo lexer with fold/unfold functions for large documents.
Info readers
- info.vim, a plugin for the Vim editor for reading Info documentation
- pinfo, a curses-based Info reader with color support and a lynx-like interface.
- tkinfo, a Tk-based Info reader.
HTML styling and processing
- datamash-texinfo.css, a CSS style sheet (sample output)
- janix-texinfo.css, a CSS style sheet
- infodoc-styles, CSS and post-processing for HTML generated from Texinfo source
- The Kawa manual shows styling of HTML via transformation of Texinfo's DocBook output with XSLT.
Conversion to/from Texinfo
- The Sphinx Python documentation generator has support for Texinfo, used by MediaGoblin
- GNU a2ps, for generating printable files from plain text, has a Texinfo style option.
- docbook2x, conversion from Docbook to Texinfo.
- man2texi, generate Texinfo from man pages.
- Scheme Scribe, which can convert Texinfo to Scribe and generate Info files.
- wikitrans, a package to convert MediaWiki format to Texinfo, plain text and HTML.
- texi2latex, converting Texinfo to LaTeX via XML, no longer maintained.
- texi2roff, an old standalone program that converts to troff format; it is not maintained and not up to date.
Literate programming
- TexiWEB, a literate programming system based on Texinfo and C, by Ben Pfaff as part of his GNU AVL package.
- TexiWeb Jr., another literate programming system, built on top of Texinfo and implemented in awk.
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