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3.5: TEXinfo, rebuilding the documentation from source

The `./Doc/texi/' directory contains the TEXinfo source files of the documentation (these are the files that end with `.texi'). You can rebuild either of the info, the html and the dvi version of the manual simply be changing to the `./Doc/' directory

cd Doc

and then typing

make something

where something is either `info', `html' or `dvi' to build either the info, the html or the dvi version of the manual. Note that a simple `make clean' will not delete the old pre-formatted versions, you need to run `make realclean' to remove them.

You need to have the `texinfo-3.9' package installed for the info and dvi version (get it from ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu/pub/ or one of its mirrors).

I am using texi2www by Tim Singletary (tsingle@sunland.gsfc.nasa.gov) as texi-to-html converter. I've modified it a bit so that it can parse TEXinfo `@macro' commands and knows about the `texinfo-3.9' `@url' and `@email' macros. My version of texi2www is contained in the `./contrib/scripts/' subdirectory of the ftape distribution.

texi2www is copyrighted under the terms of the GPL (see Copying), as is ftape. You can get the original version of texi2www from

http://sunland.gsfc.nasa.gov/info/texi2www/Top.html


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