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From: tim@maths.tcd.ie (Timothy Murphy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: TeXinfo question
Message-ID: <1990Oct3.141509.14036@maths.tcd.ie>
Date: 3 Oct 90 14:15:09 GMT
References: <1990Sep30.215608.9914@doe.utoronto.ca>
Organization: Dept. of Maths, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.
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In <1990Sep30.215608.9914@doe.utoronto.ca> david@doe.utoronto.ca (David Megginson) writes:

>A second question: how do you use TeXinfo files on the ST? Do
>you need Gnu emacs? For that matter, how do you use them on
>Unix?

Assuming that TeXinfo refers to texinfo.tex ,
this is a TeX header file used in most GNU documentation in TeX.
At the top of such a document there will be a line
\input texinfo
at which point TeX will look for the file texinfo.tex .
It's a kind of substitute for LaTeX,
but in my opinion not a very good one.
It would be much better -- and simpler -- if GNU used LaTeX
for their documentation.
I don't think texinfo is used outside GNU.

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Timothy Murphy  

e-mail: tim@maths.tcd.ie