From: jqb AT netcom DOT com (Jim Balter) Subject: Re: newbie question 8 Mar 1997 19:32:23 -0800 Approved: cygnus DOT gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: <33222480.4CE.cygnus.gnu-win32@netcom.com> References: <199703081306 DOT AA16012 AT mail DOT crl DOT com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01Gold (WinNT; I) Original-To: Weiqi Gao Original-CC: "'gnu-win32 Mailing List'" Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Weiqi Gao wrote: > Most TeX documents uses the LaTeX set of packages. However the GNU system > is stuck with a different package called Texinfo. These two packages are > orthogonal (mutually exclusive), and most TeX distributions are bundled > with only the LaTeX packages. "orthogonal" is not at all a synonym for "mutually exclusive"; quite the opposite, in fact. GNU's texinfo was designed to generate output in *either* TeX format for high-quality printing *or* .info format for hyperlinked on-line reading. If you have a .texi file but no .info file, just run makeinfo on the .texi file to produce the .info files, then move them into a directory on your infopath. These .info files can then be read with either ntemacs or with the standalone info reader. My recommendation is to install ntemacs, read the info on info by typing ctrl-H+i, and go from there. Some of these pieces may not be in place in the cygwin distribution; my setup has evolved to the point where it is too painful to retrace these steps; perhaps someone else would care to fill in the gaps. Also, since questions about texinfo are not specific to cygwin, one of the GNU newsgroups might be a place to get informed comments. -- - For help on using this list, send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".