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Overview of Texinfo

Texinfo¹ is a documentation system that uses a single source file to produce both online information and printed output. This means that instead of writing two different documents, one for the online information and the other for a printed work, you need write only one document. Therefore, when the work is revised, you need revise only that one document.

• Reporting Bugs: Submitting effective bug reports.
• Using Texinfo: Create printed or online output.
• Info Files: What is an Info file?
• Printed Books: Characteristics of a printed book or manual.
• Formatting Commands: @-commands are used for formatting.
• Conventions: General rules for writing a Texinfo file.
• Comments: Writing comments and ignored text in general.
• Minimum: What a Texinfo file must have.
• Six Parts: Usually, a Texinfo file has six parts.
• Short Sample: A short sample Texinfo file.
• History: Acknowledgements, contributors and genesis.

Footnotes

1. The first syllable of ``Texinfo'' is pronounced like ``speck'', not ``hex''. This odd pronunciation is derived from, but is not the same as, the pronunciation of TeX. In the word TeX, the X is actually the Greek letter ``chi'' rather than the English letter ``ex''. Pronounce TeX as if the X were the last sound in the name `Bach'; but pronounce Texinfo as if the x were a `k'. Spell ``Texinfo'' with a capital ``T'' and the other letters in lower case.