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- TEXI2ROFF(1) ST Programmer's Manual TEXI2ROFF(1)
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- NAME
- texi2roff, texi2index - convert Texinfo documents for for-
- matting by troff.
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- SYNOPSIS
- texi2roff [ -me -mm -ms ] [ -iIt ] [ file ... ]
- texi2index [ file ... ]
-
- DESCRIPTION
- Texi2roff translates the named files from the Texinfo macro
- language for TeX to the language accepted by troff(1).
- Files are read and processed in order. If no file is given
- or if the file is - texi2roff reads the standard input.
-
- Texi2index is a Bourne shell script which generates indices
- for documents translated by texi2roff.
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- OPTIONS
- Texi2roff
-
- -me -mm -ms
- format the output for use with the troff macro package
- named.
-
- -i translate Texinfo index commands into troff index com-
- mands. troff will then emit index entries onto the
- standard error output. You may capture this output and
- use texi2index(1) and troff to prepare indices from it.
-
- -I include Texinfo ``Info file'' menu and node contents
- and @ifinfo text in the output. This material does not
- appear in a Texinfo document formatted by TeX, but may
- contain interesting information or be useful when
- searching a machine-readable document.
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- -t (transparent) print text affected by otherwise dis-
- carded commands, for people who are afraid of missing
- something. For best results use -It.
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- EXAMPLES
- Translate doc.texinfo using the Bourne shell sh(1). Format
- with troff and -ms, placing the formatted output in doc,
- index entries in index, and the formatted index in
- doc.index.
-
- $ texi2roff -i -ms doc.texinfo | troff -ms > doc 2> index
- $ texi2index index | troff -ms >doc.index
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- As above, but use the C shell csh(1), nroff with -me, and
- transparent mode:
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- % (texi2roff -iIt -me doc.texinfo | nroff -me > doc ) >& index
- % texi2index index | nroff -me >doc.index
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- DIAGNOSTICS
- Errors are reported giving file name and line number.
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- AUTHOR
- Beverly Erlebacher (erlebach@cs.toronto.edu).
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- BUGS
- texi2roff does not track well all capabilities of texinfo
- and some new commands may be not recognized.
-
- Some commented out constructs cause a total confusion of
- texi2roff. It is a good idea to use sed or awk to remove
- all commented out lines before passing output to texi2roff.
-
- \f(CW is used to change to constant-width (typewriter-like)
- font. If this is not the standard at your site, run your
- texi2roff output through sed(1) or edit texi2roff's transla-
- tion tables.
-
- There are a number of differences in formatting details com-
- pared to Texinfo. Indentation is occasionally imperfect.
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- @def commands do not generate index entries.
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- Although Texinfo provides for a @contents and @summarycon-
- tents Table of Contents, if both are specified only the
- first one will appear if -ms is used. To prevent loss of
- detail, texi2roff generates the same Table of Contents for
- both commands.
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- The -mm macro package regards keeps as a type of display.
- This can cause troff to abort in the case of a keep nested
- in a display or vice versa. Either use a different macro
- package or remove a pair of Texinfo commands to eliminate
- nesting. Usually the @group...@end group is the best to
- remove.
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