Re: random texinfo questions

[Ovidiu Predescu]

On Tue, 19 Jun 2001 18:31:37 -0400, David Petrou <address@hidden> wrote:

> Hi.  I have a few unrelated questions regarding texinfo.
> 
> 1. I'm trying to make nice html documentation out of texinfo source.
> I see some really great pages off the GNU homepage, where you have the
> option of viewing the whole documentation as one html file, or split
> by chapter, etc. (example:
> http://www.gnu.org/manual/autoconf/index.html).  However, `makeinfo
> --html foo.texi' doesn't seem nearly as nice.  Is there some other
> tool out there that I don't know about?

You can use texi2html:

http://www.mathematik.uni-kl.de/~obachman/Texi2html

> 2. I'd like dvi output of my texinfo documentation to be compiled with
> frenchspacing turned on in TeX.  I've tried putting the TeX command
> \frenchspacing (or @frenchspacing) in various locations of my texinfo
> file, but it doesn't seem to have an effect on the dvi output.  Any
> suggestions?

Don't know about this.

> 3. I'm trying to figure out where in my texinfo file I should put my
> copyright information.  I've carefully read the texinfo documentation
> on this topic, but its recommendations seem vague.  My goal is for the
> copyright information to appear in the printed manual, html manual,
> and info manual exactly once.  (If this goal is wrong, let me know.)
> 
> The texinfo documentation section `Four parts begin a file' says that
> the copyright notice should go in the title page that only appears in
> the printed manual.  Then this node goes on to say that I can include
> the copyright as the first node of the info file.  The problem with
> doing this is that in the printed version, the copyright will be
> repeated twice (once after the title page, once as the first node).
> 
> (Also, as per the `The Title and Copyright Pages' node, I'm including
> a copy of the copyright notice within an @ifinfo that I know will not
> show up in info readers.  I'm not really sure what the purpose of this
> is.)

I follow the pattern described here, and seems to be working fine for
me.


Regards,
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