Texinfo is a typesetting syntax used for generating documentation in both on-line and printed form (creating filetypes as dvi, html, pdf, etc., and a specific hypertext format, Info) with a single source file.
Using Texinfo, you can create a printed document (via the TeX typesetting system) in PDF format, including chapters, sections, cross-references, and indices. From the same Texinfo source file, you can create HTML output suitable for use with a web browser, you can create an Info file for use in GNU Emacs or other Info-reading programs, and also create DocBook, EPUB 3, or LaTeX files.
A Texinfo source file is a plain text file containing text interspersed with @-commands (words preceded by an ‘@’) that tell the Texinfo processors what to do. Texinfo’s markup commands are almost entirely semantic; that is, they specify the intended meaning of text in the document, rather than physical formatting instructions.
This is free and open source software.
Features include:
- Supported output formats:
- PDF or DVI document (via the TeX typesetting system) with the normal features of a book, including sectioning, cross references, indices, etc.
- Info file with analogous features.
- Plain text (ASCII) file.
- HTML output suitable for use with a web browser.
- EPUB 3 e-book.
- LaTeX file, which can then be used to create a PDF.
- Docbook file.
- PostScrript.
- XML.
- Texinfo file can be formatted and typeset as a printed book or manual. To do this, you need TeX.
Website: www.gnu.org/software/texinfo
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Developer: Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License: GNU General Public License v3.0
Texinfo is written in C and Perl. Learn C with our recommended free books and free tutorials. Learn Perl with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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