Unix Programming - The Zoo of Unix Documentation Formats - Texinfo
Texinfo
Texinfo is a documentation markup invented by the Free Software
Foundation and used mainly for GNU project documentation — including
the documentation for such essential tools as
Emacs and the GNU Compiler
Collection.
Texinfo was the first markup system specifically designed to
support both typeset output on paper and hypertext output for
browsing. The hypertext format was not, however, HTML; it was a more
primitive variety called ‘info’, originally designed to be
browsed from within Emacs. On the print
side, Texinfo turns into TeX macros and can
go from there to PostScript.
The Texinfo tools can now generate HTML. But they don't do a
very good or complete job, and because a lot of Texinfo's markup
is at presentation level it is doubtful that they ever will. As of
mid-2003, the Free Software Foundation is working on heuristic Texinfo
to DocBook translation. Texinfo will probably remain a live format
for some time.
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