Mail Archives: djgpp/2000/12/12/13:22:49
Florian X <dos DOT fire AT aon DOT at> wrote:
> Why is there a *.texinfo format?
Because for the application it's used for, full TeX syntax cannot be
allowed. If it were, writing the .texi -> something else than .dvi
converters (e.g. makeinfo) would become a nightmare.
> I read, and it seems, that texi2dvi changes all @ with \ so that (la)tex can
> understand it.
No. texinfo files use raw tex and their own format file (texinfo.tex),
and that one's doing quite a lot more than just replacing @ with \.
texinfo is really a TeX dialect of its own, for a special purpose.
> Also if I want to use colors, I have to use @iftex.
> or it I want include math things...
Of course you have to: 'info' files don't support color, nor do they
have TeX's enormous capacity in formatting mathematical notation.
> Question: In SET-Edit SET wrote a inf file (I think also translated from
> texinfo) which uses colors!!! Green and white!!
I think in that case it's not the info file itself using color, there,
but rather the info *reader* code built into SETedit. IIRC, he's
displaying hyperlinks and other active elements of the text in colors,
much like the info-mode in Emacs does it, too.
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