Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!bu.edu!att!cbnewsh!cbnewsu!cbnewse!danj1 From: Dan_Jacobson@ATT.COM Newsgroups: comp.text.tex Subject: Re: screen.sty and related matters. Message-ID: Date: 31 Oct 90 22:43:36 GMT References: <1990Oct31.005539.6093@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz> Sender: danj1@cbnewse.att.com (Dan Jacobson) Reply-To: danj1@ihlpa.att.com Organization: AT&T-BL, Naperville IL, USA Lines: 36 In-Reply-To: russell@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz's message of 31 Oct 90 00:55:39 GMT >>>>> On 31 Oct 90 00:55:39 GMT, russell@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz (Russell J Fulton;) said: Russell> I am trying to set up a system for producing local documentation. Russell> I want to use LaTeX and be able to produce both hard copy and machine Russell> readable versions of the documents. What about TeXinfo/GNU Emacs (from prep.ai.mit.edu) & LaTeXinfo (from ???)? being ever so helpful, here's part of the manual: Overview of Texinfo ******************* Texinfo is a documentation system that uses a single source file for both on-line help and a printed manual. This means that instead of writing two different documents, one for the on-line help and the other for the printed manual, only one document needs to be written. When the system is revised, only one file has to be revised. Using Texinfo, you can create a document with the normal features of a book such as chapters, sections, cross references and indices. The chapters and sections of the printed manual can be made to correspond to the nodes of the on-line help. The cross references and indices can be used in both the on-line help and in the printed document. Indices are generated semi-automatically. The ``GNU Emacs Manual'' is a good example of a Texinfo file. To make the printed manual, the Texinfo source file is processed by the TeX typesetting program; the resulting DVI file can be typeset and printed as a book. To make the on-line help, the Texinfo source file is by processed the `M-x texinfo-format-buffer' command; the resulting Info file is installed in the `info' directory. -- Dan_Jacobson@ATT.COM Naperville IL USA +1 708-979-6364