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TEXI2ANY
Section: User Commands (1)Updated: September 2017
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NAME
texi2any - translate Texinfo documentsSYNOPSIS
makeinfo [,OPTION/]... ,TEXINFO-FILE/...DESCRIPTION
Translate Texinfo source documentation to various other formats, by default Info files suitable for reading online with Emacs or standalone GNU Info.This program is commonly installed as both `makeinfo' and `texi2any'; the behavior is identical, and does not depend on the installed name.
General options:
- --document-language=,STR/ locale to use in translating Texinfo keywords
- for the output document (default C).
- --error-limit=,NUM/
- quit after NUM errors (default 100).
- --force
- preserve output even if errors.
- --help
- display this help and exit.
- --no-validate
- suppress node cross-reference validation.
- --no-warn
- suppress warnings (but not errors).
- --conf-dir=,DIR/
- search also for initialization files in DIR.
- --init-file=,FILE/
- load FILE to modify the default behavior.
- -c, --set-customization-variable VAR=VAL
- set customization variable VAR to value VAL.
- -v, --verbose
- explain what is being done.
- --version
- display version information and exit.
Output format selection (default is to produce Info):
- --docbook
- output Docbook XML rather than Info.
- --html
- output HTML rather than Info.
- --plaintext
- output plain text rather than Info.
- --xml
- output Texinfo XML rather than Info.
- --dvi, --dvipdf, --ps, --pdf
- call texi2dvi to generate given output, after checking validity of TEXINFO-FILE.
General output options:
- -E, --macro-expand=,FILE/
- output macro-expanded source to FILE, ignoring any @setfilename.
- --no-headers
- suppress node separators, Node: lines, and menus from Info output (thus producing plain text) or from HTML (thus producing shorter output). Also, if producing Info, write to standard output by default.
- --no-split
- suppress any splitting of the output; generate only one output file.
- --[no-]number-sections
- output chapter and sectioning numbers; default is on.
- -o, --output=,DEST/
- output to DEST. With split output, create DEST as a directory
- and put the output files there.
- With non-split output, if DEST is already
- a directory or ends with a /,
- put the output file there.
- Otherwise, DEST names the output file.
Options for Info and plain text:
- --disable-encoding
- do not output accented and special characters in Info output based on @documentencoding.
- --enable-encoding
- override --disable-encoding (default).
- --fill-column=,NUM/
- break Info lines at NUM characters (default 72).
- --footnote-style=,STYLE/
- output footnotes in Info according to STYLE: `separate' to put them in their own node; `end' to put them at the end of the node, in which they are defined (this is the default).
- --paragraph-indent=,VAL/
- indent Info paragraphs by VAL spaces (default 3). If VAL is `none', do not indent; if VAL is `asis', preserve existing indentation.
- --split-size=,NUM/
- split Info files at size NUM (default 300000).
Options for HTML:
- --css-include=,FILE/
- include FILE in HTML <style> output; read stdin if FILE is -.
- --css-ref=,URL/
- generate CSS reference to URL.
- --internal-links=,FILE/
- produce list of internal links in FILE.
- --split=,SPLIT/
- split at SPLIT, where SPLIT may be `chapter', `section' or `node'.
- --transliterate-file-names
- use file names in ASCII transliteration.
- --node-files
- produce redirection files for nodes and anchors; default is set only if split.
Options for XML and Docbook:
- --output-indent=,VAL/
- does nothing, retained for compatibility.
Options for DVI/PS/PDF:
- --Xopt=,OPT/
- pass OPT to texi2dvi; can be repeated.
Input file options:
- --commands-in-node-names
- does nothing, retained for compatibility.
- -D VAR
- define the variable VAR, as with @set.
- -D 'VAR VAL'
- define VAR to VAL (one shell argument).
- -I DIR
- append DIR to the @include search path.
- -P DIR
- prepend DIR to the @include search path.
- -U VAR
- undefine the variable VAR, as with @clear.
Conditional processing in input:
- --ifdocbook
- process @ifdocbook and @docbook even if not generating Docbook.
- --ifhtml
- process @ifhtml and @html even if not generating HTML.
- --ifinfo
- process @ifinfo even if not generating Info.
- --ifplaintext
- process @ifplaintext even if not generating plain text.
- --iftex
- process @iftex and @tex.
- --ifxml
- process @ifxml and @xml.
- --no-ifdocbook
- do not process @ifdocbook and @docbook text.
- --no-ifhtml
- do not process @ifhtml and @html text.
- --no-ifinfo
- do not process @ifinfo text.
- --no-ifplaintext
- do not process @ifplaintext text.
- --no-iftex
- do not process @iftex and @tex text.
- --no-ifxml
- do not process @ifxml and @xml text. Also, for the --no-ifFORMAT options, do process @ifnotFORMAT text. The defaults for the @if... conditionals depend on the output format: if generating Docbook, --ifdocbook is on and the others are off; if generating HTML, --ifhtml is on and the others are off; if generating Info, --ifinfo is on and the others are off; if generating plain text, --ifplaintext is on and the others are off; if generating XML, --ifxml is on and the others are off.
EXAMPLES
- makeinfo foo.texi
- write Info to foo's @setfilename
- makeinfo --html foo.texi
- write HTML to @setfilename
- makeinfo --xml foo.texi
- write Texinfo XML to @setfilename
- makeinfo --docbook foo.texi
- write Docbook XML to @setfilename
- makeinfo --plaintext foo.texi
- write plain text to standard output
- makeinfo --pdf foo.texi
- write PDF using texi2dvi
- makeinfo --html --no-headers foo.texi
- write html without node lines, menus
- makeinfo --number-sections foo.texi
- write Info with numbered sections
- makeinfo --no-split foo.texi
- write one Info file however big
REPORTING BUGS
Email bug reports to bug-texinfo@gnu.org, general questions and discussion to help-texinfo@gnu.org.Texinfo home page: http://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/
COPYRIGHT
Copyright © 2017 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
SEE ALSO
The full documentation for texi2any is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and texi2any programs are properly installed at your site, the command- info texi2any
should give you access to the complete manual.