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Where can I find Texinfo documentation?


I want to write the manual for an open-source software. As the manual will contain several pages I considered texinfo the best option since the manual will be too long for a man page and the user should be able to open it in a ssh session.

However, I can not find a good tutorial or manual and the official documentation is too cryptic. Can you share a tutorial or manual about texinfo?


Solution

  • texinfo is a TeX format to typeset files in the GNU info format, so you are looking for a tutorial of that format. GNU info is documented in its own format, so a starter is the command

    info info
    

    on a GNU/Linux computer.