1This directory contains documentation on the Texinfo system and the TeX
| 1This directory contains documentation on the Texinfo system and the TeX
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2sources needed to process Texinfo sources. (Use texi2dvi to run a
3Texinfo manual through TeX to produce a DVI file.)
| 2sources needed to process Texinfo sources. We recommend using the
3texi2dvi included in the distribution to run a Texinfo manual through
4TeX to produce a DVI file.
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4
5The .tex files are not installed automatically because TeX installations
6vary so widely. Installing them in the wrong place would give a false
7sense of security. So, you should simply cp *.tex to the appropriate
8place. If your installation follows the TeX Directory Structure
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6The .tex files are not installed automatically because TeX installations
7vary so widely. Installing them in the wrong place would give a false
8sense of security. So, you should simply cp *.tex to the appropriate
9place. If your installation follows the TeX Directory Structure
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9standard (http://www.tug.org/tds/), this will be the directory
| 10standard (http://tug.org/tds/), this will be the directory
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10<texmf>/tex/texinfo/ for texinfo.tex and <texmf>/tex/plain/dvips/ for
11epsf.tex. If you use the default installation paths, <texmf> will be
| 11<texmf>/tex/texinfo/ for texinfo.tex and <texmf>/tex/plain/dvips/ for
12epsf.tex. If you use the default installation paths, <texmf> will be
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12/usr/local/share/texmf. If you have teTeX, you can find <texmf> by
13running:
14 texconfig confall | grep \^TEXMF=
15(The configure script tries to do this for you.)
| 13/usr/local/share/texmf. On systems with TeX preinstalled, as most
14GNU/Linux distributions offer, <texmf> will often be something like
15/usr/share/texmf.
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| 17It is also possible to put these .tex files in a `local' place instead
18of overwriting existing ones, but it is more complicated. See your TeX
19documentation in general and the texmf.cnf file in particular for information.
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21If you add files to your TeX installations, not just replace existing
22ones, you very likely have to update your ls-R file; do this with the
23mktexlsr command. In older versions, this was named MakeTeXls-R.
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17You can get the latest texinfo.tex from
| 25You can get the latest texinfo.tex from
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18ftp://ftp.tug.org/tex/texinfo.tex
19ftp://ftp.cs.umb.edu/pub/tex/texinfo.tex
| 26ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/texinfo.tex (and all GNU mirrors)
27ftp://tug.org/tex/texinfo.tex (and all CTAN mirrors)
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20or on the FSF machines in /home/gd/gnu/doc/texinfo.tex.
21If you have problems with the version in this distribution, please check
22for a newer version.
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24epsf.tex comes with dvips distributions, and you may already have it
25installed. The version here is functionally identical but slightly
26nicer than the one in dvips574. The changes have been sent to the
27epsf.tex maintainer.
| 28or on the FSF machines in /home/gd/gnu/doc/texinfo.tex.
29If you have problems with the version in this distribution, please check
30for a newer version.
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32epsf.tex comes with dvips distributions, and you may already have it
33installed. The version here is functionally identical but slightly
34nicer than the one in dvips574. The changes have been sent to the
35epsf.tex maintainer.
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