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From: walter@hpsadle.HP.COM (Walter Coole)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: Do I need full TeX system for GNU Docs?
Message-ID: <13590030@hpsadle.HP.COM>
Date: 6 Dec 90 00:06:55 GMT
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Organization: HP Signal Analysis Division - Rohnert Park, CA
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It sounds as though you have the .texinfo version of the docs.  To get useful
hard-copy from those, you will need a functional version of TeX,
texinfo.tex (which you may already have), a dvi driver suitable for
your printer, and some appropriate fonts (I think the standard setup
calls for a couple scalings of cmr10 and the bold and italic
equivalents, but any TeX user could probably modify your files to use
whatever TeX fonts you have available).
    If online documentation is sufficient for what you need, GNU emacs
can convert .texinfo to info format, which GNU emacs's info mode can
read nicely.  You could probably print that out, but it won't be
formatted very nicely.