From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Burton Samograd Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Reading Texinfo files Date: Sun, 14 May 2006 20:43:43 -0600 Organization: Posted via Supernews, http://www.supernews.com Message-ID: <87hd3suhwg.fsf@gmail.com> References: <126fmagf0f4lv89@corp.supernews.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1147664436 18919 80.91.229.2 (15 May 2006 03:40:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 15 May 2006 03:40:36 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon May 15 05:40:34 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FfTwg-0006UG-5l for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 15 May 2006 05:40:34 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FfTwf-000731-Mq for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 14 May 2006 23:40:33 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.aset.psu.edu!news.glorb.com!sn-xt-sjc-15!sn-xt-sjc-08!sn-xt-sjc-01!sn-post-sjc-01!supernews.com!corp.supernews.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:ju2KETERxjg1M/3usnZT/+Hyesg= Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@supernews.com Original-Lines: 67 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:139414 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:35038 Archived-At: RD writes: > I downloaded the elisp manual Texinfo files to my Windows XP machine, > but I don't know how to read them. > > They are sitting in their own directory. > > I downloaded the Texinfo "Complete package, except sources" from > http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/texinfo.htm, but that > produces only a bunch of documents, no executable. > > How do I read the manuals? Do I copy them to the emacs "info" > subdirectory, and then "Browse manuals with info" from the "Help" > menu? Is there a Texinfo reader somewhere? Yes, you can copy them into the emacs info directory, but you then have to add them to a 'dir' file in there, which looks like this: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This is the file .../info/dir, which contains the topmost node of the Info hierarchy, called (dir)Top. The first time you invoke Info you start off looking at this node. File: dir, Node: Top This is the top of the INFO tree This (the Directory node) gives a menu of major topics. Typing "q" exits, "?" lists all Info commands, "d" returns here, "h" gives a primer for first-timers, "mEmacs" visits the Emacs manual, etc. In Emacs, you can click mouse button 2 on a menu item or cross reference to select it. * Menu: Texinfo documentation system * Info: (info). How to use the documentation browsing system. * Texi2HTML: (texi2html). Texinfo to HTML Converter. * Texinfo: (texinfo). The GNU documentation format. * fftw3: (fftw3). FFTW User's Manual. * info standalone: (info-stnd). Read Info documents without Emacs. * infokey: (info-stnd)Invoking infokey. Compile Info customizations. * install-info: (texinfo)Invoking install-info. Update info/dir entries. * makeinfo: (texinfo)Invoking makeinfo. Translate Texinfo source. * texi2dvi: (texinfo)Format with texi2dvi. Print Texinfo documents. * texi2pdf: (texinfo)PDF Output. PDF output for Texinfo. * texindex: (texinfo)Format with tex/texindex. Sort Texinfo index files. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You put the entries you have copied in in the format like at the bottom of the example. Each line is a *, the name of the topic and then the file name in the parenthesis. After that, you will be able to hit C-h i, or M-x info to open up the emacs info viewer and read the info files. There is also a command 'install-info' that might come with texinfo, but I doubt it would work under windows, but it does the copying and dir file editing for you if it works. You can also get a standalone info program with cygwin, but you need to do the same installation procedure as for emacs. Hope this helps. -- burton samograd kruhft .at. gmail kruhft.blogspot.com www.myspace.com/kruhft metashell.blogspot.com