From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Exporting form emacs texinfo-mode to dvi, pdf, and html Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2021 09:34:35 +0300 Message-ID: <83h7hmsb9g.fsf@gnu.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="28931"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri Jun 25 08:35:12 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1lwfQm-0007H7-Nm for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 25 Jun 2021 08:35:12 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42248 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lwfQk-0002jX-T3 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 25 Jun 2021 02:35:10 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:51662) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lwfQN-0002jP-4X for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 25 Jun 2021 02:34:47 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:41862) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lwfQM-0003PE-UA for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 25 Jun 2021 02:34:46 -0400 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.95.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.95]:1146 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lwfQK-00067A-3Y for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 25 Jun 2021 02:34:46 -0400 In-Reply-To: (lisa-asket@perso.be) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:131224 Archived-At: > From: lisa-asket@perso.be > Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2021 01:56:11 +0200 (CEST) > > Mhen I am in emacs org mode, it is very easy to write plain-text documents and > export them using latex to pdf. > > But if I write a texinfo file, I cannot use emacs to easily export the document to > dvi, pdf, or html.  A capability in the menu in texinfo mode would be appreciated. Texinfo documents are not plain text documents, so their typesetting is more complex than just Org-style "export". For that reason, a project that supports producing printed manuals usually has a Makefile with the corresponding settings and commands. With such projects, what you want to do is achieved by something like M-x compile RET make PDF RET This will invoke Make to produce the printed manual.