README revision 56160
1This directory contains documentation on the Texinfo system and the TeX 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. 5 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 10standard (http://tug.org/tds/), this will be the directory 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 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. 16 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. 20 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. 24 25You can get the latest texinfo.tex from 26ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/texinfo.tex (and all GNU mirrors) 27ftp://tug.org/tex/texinfo.tex (and all CTAN mirrors) 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. 31 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. 36