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From: merlyn@iwarp.intel.com (Randal Schwartz)
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs
Subject: Re: Help with TeXinfo
Message-ID: <1990Feb6.171603.14453@iwarp.intel.com>
Date: 6 Feb 90 17:16:03 GMT
References: <1990Feb5.215942.2152@hellgate.utah.edu>
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In-Reply-To: thomson@cs.utah.edu (Rich Thomson)

In article <1990Feb5.215942.2152@hellgate.utah.edu>, thomson@cs (Rich Thomson) writes:
| I've been trying to create some texinfo files of my own for connecting
| together bibliographic entries in a network that I could wander.
| 
| I haven't been able to get Info to read my file with the info directives in
| it.  The INFO instructions say to edit the top-level file 'dir', but that
| means that I must edit this global file to the entire document tree.  Isn't
| there any way to have a document tree rooted in a directory of my own
| choosing?

(describe-variable 'Info-directory) ==>
" Info-directory's value is "/r/merlyn/.elib/info"
" 
" Documentation:
" Default directory for Info documentation files.

I have (setq Info-directory (expand-file-name "~/.elib/info")) in my
.emacs.  In there, I copied the file 'dir', and made symlinks of all
the other files in the old "Info-directory" (note that first *before*
you change the value :-).  I then added entries to the bottom of 'dir'
referring to my local info nodes.

If you need more details, let me know.  It's too bad there's not a
search path on Info-dirs.
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