1 Id: README,v 1.16 2004/12/13 13:36:32 karl Exp
2 This is the README file for the GNU Texinfo distribution. Texinfo is
3 the preferred documentation format for GNU software.
5 Copyright (C) 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000,
6 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
8 Copying and distribution of this file, with or without modification,
9 are permitted in any medium without royalty provided the copyright
10 notice and this notice are preserved.
12 See ./INSTALL* for installation instructions.
14 Primary distribution point: ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/texinfo/
15 (list of mirrors at: http://www.gnu.org/prep/ftp.html)
17 Home page: http://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/
18 (list of mirrors at: http://www.gnu.org/server/list-mirrors.html)
19 This page includes links to other Texinfo-related programs.
21 Mailing lists and archives:
22 - bug-texinfo@gnu.org for bug reports or enhancement suggestions,
23 archive: http://mail.gnu.org/pipermail/bug-texinfo
24 - help-texinfo@gnu.org for authoring questions and general discussion,
25 archive: http://mail.gnu.org/pipermail/help-texinfo
26 - texinfo-pretest@texinfo.org for pretests of new releases,
27 archive: http://texinfo.org/ftp/texinfo-pretest-archive
28 There are no corresponding newsgroups.
31 please include enough information for the maintainers to reproduce the
32 problem. Generally speaking, that means:
33 - the contents of any input files necessary to reproduce the bug (crucial!).
34 - a description of the problem and any samples of the erroneous output.
35 - the version number of Texinfo and the program(s) involved (use --version).
36 - hardware, operating system, and compiler versions (uname -a).
37 - unusual options you gave to configure, if any (see config.status).
38 - anything else that you think would be helpful.
40 Patches are most welcome; if possible, please make them with diff -c and
41 include ChangeLog entries.
43 When sending email, please do not encode or split the messages in any
44 way if at all possible; it's easier to deal with one large message than
45 many small ones. GNU shar (http://www.gnu.org/software/sharutils/) is a
46 convenient way of packaging multiple and/or binary files for email.
48 See README.dev for information on the Texinfo development environment --
49 any interested parties are welcome. If you're a programmer and wish to
50 contribute, this should get you started. And if you're not a
51 programmer, you can still make significant contributions by writing test
52 cases, checking the documentation against the implementation, etc.
54 This distribution includes the following files, among others:
56 README.dev Texinfo developer information.
58 INSTALL Texinfo-specific installation notes.
59 NEWS Summary of new features by release.
60 INTRODUCTION Brief introduction to the system, and
61 how to create readable files from the
62 Texinfo source files in this distribution.
64 Texinfo documentation files (in ./doc):
65 texinfo.txi Describes the Texinfo language and many
66 of the associated tools. It tells how
67 to use Texinfo to write documentation,
68 how to use Texinfo mode in GNU Emacs,
69 TeX, makeinfo, and the Emacs Lisp
70 Texinfo formatting commands.
72 info.texi This manual tells you how to use
73 Info. This document also comes as part of
74 GNU Emacs. If you do not have Emacs,
75 you can format this Texinfo source
76 file with makeinfo or TeX and then
77 read the resulting Info file with the
78 standalone Info reader that is part of
81 info-stnd.texi This manual tells you how to use
82 the standalone GNU Info reader that is
83 included in this distribution as C
86 Printing related files:
87 doc/texinfo.tex This TeX definitions file tells
88 the TeX program how to typeset a
89 Texinfo file into a DVI file ready for
92 util/texindex.c This file contains the source for
93 the `texindex' program that generates
94 sorted indices used by TeX when
95 typesetting a file for printing.
97 util/texi2dvi This is a shell script for
98 producing an indexed DVI file using
101 Source files for standalone C programs:
107 Makefile.am What Automake uses to make a Makefile.in.
108 Makefile.in What `configure' uses to make a Makefile,
110 configure.ac What Autoconf uses to create `configure'.
111 configure Configuration script for local conditions,