README revision 259065
1$Id: README,v 1.4 2004/04/11 17:56:45 karl Exp $ 2texinfo/doc/README 3 4 Copyright (C) 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc. 5 6 Copying and distribution of this file, with or without modification, 7 are permitted in any medium without royalty provided the copyright 8 notice and this notice are preserved. 9 10This directory contains documentation on the Texinfo system and the TeX 11sources needed to process Texinfo sources. We recommend using the 12texi2dvi included in this distribution to run a Texinfo manual through 13TeX to produce a DVI file. 14 15The .tex files are not installed automatically because TeX installations 16vary so widely. Installing them in the wrong place would give a false 17sense of security. So, you should simply cp *.tex to the appropriate 18place. If your installation follows the TeX Directory Structure 19standard (http://tug.org/tds/), this will be the directory 20TEXMF/tex/texinfo/ for texinfo.tex, TEXMF/tex/generic/dvips/ for epsf.tex, 21and TEXMF/pdftex/plain/misc for pdfcolor.tex. If you use the default 22installation paths, TEXMF will be /usr/local/share/texmf. On systems 23with TeX preinstalled, as most GNU/Linux distributions offer, TEXMF 24will often be something like /usr/share/texmf. 25 26It is also possible to put these .tex files in a `local' place instead 27of overwriting existing ones, but this is more complicated. See your TeX 28documentation in general and the texmf.cnf file in particular for information. 29 30If you add files to your TeX installations, not just replace existing 31ones, you very likely have to update your ls-R file; do this with the 32mktexlsr command. In older versions, this was named MakeTeXls-R. 33 34You can get the latest texinfo.tex from 35ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/texinfo/texinfo.tex (and all GNU mirrors) 36ftp://tug.org/tex/texinfo.tex (and all CTAN mirrors) 37or on the FSF machines in /home/gd/gnu/doc/texinfo.tex. 38If you have problems with the version in this distribution, please check 39for a newer version. 40 41epsf.tex comes with dvips distributions, and you may already have it 42installed. The version here is functionally identical but slightly 43nicer than the one in dvips574. The changes have been sent to the 44epsf.tex maintainer. 45