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This is Atari version of a program 'makeinfo' which should make life
easier for all those lazy souls, which would like to have some
reasonably formatted documentation from FSF (GNU-project) but do not
want to run TeX. It converts TeX files which are using 'texinfo'
macros into .info files which can be displayed on a terminal or
printed on a line printer.
This program is derived from an original 'makeinfo', version 1.0 but
sources changed quite a bit. In particular they were converted to
ANSI C and they compile now correctly with 16-bit wide int's. The
current version of sources is included in the archive.
On Atari ST file name extension for output is .inf when files are not
split and .-<num> in a case of splitting, where num are consecutive
numbers starting from 1. It follows that you cannot have more than 99
numbered parts :-).
Some bugs of the original program were removed and other small changes
were done. It recognizes, in particular, (some?) constructs which
were added to recent version of texinfo macros. I tried this program
on some pretty sizeable input files (around 280K) and it worked, but
there is always a possibility of this one more bug.
Michal Jaegermann
ntomczak@vm.ucs.ualberta.ca