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

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  • texi2latex, converting Texinfo to LaTeX via XML, no longer maintained.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

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