Contents | < Browse | Browse >
Overview of Texinfo
*******************

   "Texinfo"(1) is a documentation system that uses a single source
file to produce both on-line information and printed output.  This
means that instead of writing two different documents, one for the
on-line help or other on-line information and the other for a typeset
manual or other printed work, you need write only one document.  When
the work is revised, you need revise only one document.  (You can read
the on-line information, known as an "Info file", with an Info
documentation-reading program.)

* Menu:

* Using Texinfo                Create a conventional printed book
                                  or an Info file.
* Info Files                   What is an Info file?
* Printed Books                Characteristics of a printed book or manual.
* Formatting Commands          @-commands are used for formatting.
* Conventions                  General rules for writing a Texinfo file.
* Comments                     How to write comments and mark regions that
                                  the formatting commands will ignore.
* Minimum                      What a Texinfo file must have.
* Six Parts                    Usually, a Texinfo file has six parts.
* Short Sample                 A short sample Texinfo file.
* Acknowledgements 

   ---------- Footnotes ----------

   (1)  Note that the first syllable of "Texinfo" is pronounced like
"speck", not "hex".  This odd pronunciation is derived from, but is not
the same as, the pronunciation of TeX.  In the word TeX, the `X' is
actually the Greek letter "chi" rather than the English letter "ex".
Pronounce TeX as if the `X' were the last sound in the name `Bach'; but
pronounce Texinfo as if the `x' were a `k'.  Spell "Texinfo" with a
capital "T" and write the other letters in lower case.