An introductory
article written by Arnold Robbins.
Other programs/etc.
- gdoc,
for extracting Texinfo (and other format) documentation from source
files.
- ltxindex,
for typesetting indices of LaTeX documents with Texinfo's texindex program.
- Textadept, a
customizable editor that includes a Texinfo lexer with fold/unfold
functions for large documents.
Info readers
- info.vim,
a plugin for the Vim editor for reading Info documentation
- pinfo,
a curses-based Info reader with color support and a lynx-like interface.
- tkinfo,
a Tk-based Info reader.
HTML styling and processing
Conversion to/from Texinfo
- The
Sphinx Python documentation generator has support for Texinfo, used
by MediaGoblin
- GNU a2ps,
for generating printable files from plain text, has a Texinfo style option.
- docbook2x,
conversion from Docbook to Texinfo.
- man2texi,
generate Texinfo from man pages.
- Scheme
Scribe, which can convert Texinfo to Scribe and generate Info files.
- wikitrans, a package to convert MediaWiki format to Texinfo, plain text and HTML.
- texi2latex,
converting Texinfo to LaTeX via XML, no longer maintained.
- texi2roff,
an old standalone program that converts to troff format; it is not
maintained and not up to date.
Literate programming
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useful to add here, please email.
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