texinfo (7.1)
This is texinfo.info, produced by texi2any version 7.1 from
texinfo.texi.
This manual is for GNU Texinfo (version 7.1, 18 October 2023), a
documentation system that can produce both online information and a
printed manual from a single source using semantic markup.
Copyright © 1988-2023 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and
no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the
section entitled "GNU Free Documentation License".
INFO-DIR-SECTION Texinfo documentation system
START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY
* Texinfo: (texinfo). The GNU documentation format.
* install-info: (texinfo)Invoking install-info. Update info/dir entries.
* texi2any: (texinfo)Invoking texi2any. Translate Texinfo source.
* makeinfo: (texinfo)Invoking texi2any. Translate Texinfo source.
* pod2texi: (pod2texi)Invoking pod2texi. Translate Perl Pod to Texinfo.
* texi2dvi: (texinfo)Format with texi2dvi. Print Texinfo documents.
* texi2pdf: (texinfo)PDF Output. PDF output for Texinfo.
* pdftexi2dvi: (texinfo)PDF Output. PDF output for Texinfo.
* texindex: (texinfo)Format with tex/texindex. Sort Texinfo index files.
END-INFO-DIR-ENTRY
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