Date:	Fri, 6 Aug 1999 12:40:37 +0200
From:	Hans-Bernhard Broeker <broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de>
Message-Id:	<199908061040.MAA12374@acp3bf.physik.rwth-aachen.de>
To:	beyonder69 AT geocities DOT com (Sahab Yazdani)
Cc:	djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject:	Re: INFO File Format???
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Organization:	RWTH Aachen, III. physikalisches Institut B
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Reply-To:	djgpp AT delorie DOT com

In article <37AA01F9 DOT 9382DDA0 AT geocities DOT com> you wrote:
> Is there a special specification for this format that I should know
> about??  I wan't to create documentation for a library that I have made,
> and wanted it to be in the (what I suppose) is the native DJGPP help
> file format.

The docs are *not* usually written in info file format. They're
written in a dialect of TeX called 'texinfo', and compiled into info
by the program 'makeinfo'. From the same texinfo source, 'TeX' will
generate nicely formatted printable documentation, along with indexes
generated by the 'texindex' program. Tools exist to generate HTML
pages from the very same source, as well.

If you don't have it yet, get the txi312b.zip package, which contains
all these programs, and read up under 'info texinfo' about the texinfo
documentation language. The GNU editor-of-choice, emacs, has special
support for texinfo to ease editing.

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Hans-Bernhard Broeker (broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de)
Even if all the snow were burnt, ashes would remain.

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