blob: 75630e9efbc0a3dc0b3524863515546f5efb9af1 [file] [log] [blame]
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<!-- Created by Texinfo 6.8dev+dev, http://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/ -->
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
<!-- This manual is for GNU Texinfo (version 6.8dev, 23 February 2022),
a documentation system that can produce both online information and a
printed manual from a single source using semantic markup.
Copyright (C) 1988, 1990-1993, 1995-1999, 2001-2022 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document
under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or
any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no
Invariant Sections, with no Front-Cover Texts, and with no Back-Cover
Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled
"GNU Free Documentation License". -->
<title>Creating an Info File (GNU Texinfo 6.8dev)</title>
<meta name="description" content="Creating an Info File (GNU Texinfo 6.8dev)">
<meta name="keywords" content="Creating an Info File (GNU Texinfo 6.8dev)">
<meta name="resource-type" content="document">
<meta name="distribution" content="global">
<meta name="Generator" content="texi2any">
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width,initial-scale=1">
<link href="index.html" rel="start" title="Top">
<link href="Command-and-Variable-Index.html" rel="index" title="Command and Variable Index">
<link href="index.html#SEC_Contents" rel="contents" title="Table of Contents">
<link href="Creating-and-Installing-Info-Files.html" rel="up" title="Creating and Installing Info Files">
<link href="Installing-an-Info-File.html" rel="next" title="Installing an Info File">
</head>
<body lang="en">
<div class="section-level-extent" id="Creating-an-Info-File">
<div class="nav-panel">
<p>
Next: <a href="Installing-an-Info-File.html" accesskey="n" rel="next">Installing an Info File</a>, Up: <a href="Creating-and-Installing-Info-Files.html" accesskey="u" rel="up">Creating and Installing Info Files</a> &nbsp; [<a href="index.html#SEC_Contents" title="Table of contents" rel="contents">Contents</a>][<a href="Command-and-Variable-Index.html" title="Index" rel="index">Index</a>]</p>
</div>
<hr>
<h3 class="section" id="Creating-an-Info-File-1">20.1 Creating an Info File</h3>
<a class="index-entry-id" id="index-Creating-an-Info-file"></a>
<a class="index-entry-id" id="index-Info_002c-creating-an-online-file"></a>
<a class="index-entry-id" id="index-Formatting-a-file-for-Info"></a>
<p><code class="code">makeinfo</code> is a program that converts a Texinfo file into an Info
file, HTML file, or plain text. <code class="code">texinfo-format-region</code> and
<code class="code">texinfo-format-buffer</code> are GNU Emacs functions that convert
Texinfo to Info.
</p>
<p>For information on installing the Info file in the Info system,
see <a class="pxref" href="Installing-an-Info-File.html">Installing an Info File</a>.
</p>
<ul class="mini-toc">
<li><a href="makeinfo-Advantages.html" accesskey="1"><code class="code">makeinfo</code> Advantages</a></li>
<li><a href="makeinfo-in-Emacs.html" accesskey="2">Running <code class="code">makeinfo</code> Within Emacs</a></li>
<li><a href="texinfo_002dformat-commands.html" accesskey="3">The <code class="code">texinfo-format&hellip;</code> Commands</a></li>
<li><a href="Batch-Formatting.html" accesskey="4">Batch Formatting</a></li>
<li><a href="Tag-and-Split-Files.html" accesskey="5">Tag Files and Split Files</a></li>
</ul>
</div>
</body>
</html>