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From:	Thomas Demmer <demmer AT LSTM DOT Ruhr-UNI-Bochum DOT De>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: Was Re: Printed libc docs
Date:	Thu, 01 Aug 1996 09:14:17 +0100
Organization:	Lehrstuhl fuer Stroemungsmechanik
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To:	"Luis G. Hernandez U." <ghernan AT cariari DOT ucr DOT ac DOT cr>
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Luis G. Hernandez U. wrote:
> 
>   Hi:
>       Some time ago (and before and before and before ;-) ) I answered some
>   similar questions about TeXing the TeXInfo docs. As before, what you need
>   is:
> 
>    1) A (n almost pretty good) TeX package installed and runing ok in your
>       computer.

Got it for years (emTeX) ;-)

>    2) the file texinfo.tex (which comes with the TeXInfo orig. dist., i.e.
>       texinfo-3.7.tar.gz -- this is the current version, as in prep.ai.mit.
>       edu--, note that there is a texinfo.texi in the same dist.. Too, you
>       can look at any CTAN --ftp.dante.de is one CTAN--, there's a copy of
>       that file, an of the texinfo too), note that a copy of that file comes
>       in the v2gnu/txi360b.zip archive.

Sorry, but that is wrong.
The texinfo-3.7.tar.gz contains texinfo version 2.151 (just taken from
ftp.DANTE.de), the one in /djgpp/info is version 2.145 (unless this changed
since Februaray). The old version works (kind of), the new one fails on the 
second run. The ``kind of'' means that identifiers (nodes, to be precise) 
starting with ``_'' yield the output in the main text
_
strold
 bla bla

instead of

_strold
 bla bla

xrefs, toc, etc. are ok. 

>    3) the texinfo docs that you want to TeX...
> 
>       As an example, take the texinfo.tex which comes in v2gnu/txi360b.zip
>       and the files for the cpp docs: v2gnu/gcc272s.zip:gnu/gcc-272/cpp.*.
>       Place all in a tmp dir, and then type tex cpp.tex (as with LaTeX docs,
>       repeat two more times to let
>       TeX place all the cross references as it should be). Ok, now you have
>       a 52 pages dvi file, ready to print (less than 5 min in my oldy  i486
>       DX266)... follow the same instrucctions with all the other files that
>       you want top print....

For the emTeX users it is
tex386 -mt14000 -ms 4000 libc
and after one minute you have 504 pages of dvi. 

But we are getting slightly off-topic, and a friendly
guru at umb.edu is having a look at this. 

-- 
Ciao
Tom



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