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<h3 class="section" id="Printing-From-an-Emacs-Shell">18.5 Printing From an Emacs Shell</h3>
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<p>You can give formatting and printing commands from a shell within GNU
Emacs, just like any other shell command. To create a shell within
Emacs, type <kbd class="kbd">M-x shell</kbd> (see <a data-manual="emacs" href="https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Shell.html#Shell">Shell</a> in <cite class="cite">The GNU Emacs
Manual</cite>). In this shell, you can format and print the document.
See <a class="xref" href="Hardcopy.html">Format and Print Hardcopy</a>, for details.
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<p>You can switch to and from the shell buffer while <code class="code">tex</code> is
running and do other editing. If you are formatting a long document
on a slow machine, this can be very convenient.
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<p>For example, you can use <code class="code">texi2dvi</code> from an Emacs shell. Here is
one way to use <code class="code">texi2pdf</code> to format and print <cite class="cite">Using and
Porting GNU CC</cite> from a shell within Emacs:
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<div class="group"><pre class="example-preformatted">texi2pdf gcc.texi
lpr gcc.pdf
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<p>See the next section for more information about formatting
and printing in Texinfo mode.
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