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will it not be good if even blind people create visually appealing
documents for sited people?
Texinfo does that.
Besides enabling you to create documents that are efficient for
listening, from a single source file, Texinfo enables you to create
documents that sighted people like. Indeed, most of the work
involving Texinfo is by and for sighted people.
As a reminder,
With makeinfo and texi2dvi, you can readily create seven output
formats from a single Texinfo source file directly: Info, plain
text, HTML, DVI, PDF, DocBook, and XML with a Texinfo DTD.
Also, using dvips, html2rtf.pl, and rtf2latex, you can create
PostScript and RTF in two steps and LaTeX in three steps.
That is: PostScript, RTF, and LaTeX
Bob uses .docbook and .texinfoxml as extensions for files in the
two XML formats, DocBook and XML with a Texinfo DTD.
## Info
makeinfo --no-split --fill-column=70 --paragraph-indent=0 --verbose \
foo.texi
## Plain text
makeinfo --no-split --fill-column=70 --paragraph-indent=0 --verbose \
--no-headers --output=foo.txt foo.texi
## HTML
makeinfo --no-split --verbose --html foo.texi
## DVI
texi2dvi foo.texi
## PDF
texi2dvi --pdf foo.texi
## DocBook
makeinfo --docbook --no-split --paragraph-indent=0 \
--verbose --output=foo.docbook foo.texi
## XML with a Texinfo DTD
makeinfo --xml --no-split --paragraph-indent=0 \
--verbose --output=foo.texinfoxml foo.texi
# /usr/local/src/texinfo-4.8/util/texinfo.dtd
# Create DVI if we lack it
texi2dvi foo.texi
## PostScript (needs DVI)
dvips foo.dvi -o foo.ps
# Create HTML if we lack it
makeinfo --no-split --html foo.texi
## RTF (needs HTML)
# Use OpenOffice to view RTF
/usr/local/src/html2rtf.pl foo.html
## LaTeX (needs RTF)
rtf2latex foo.rtf
As a practical matter, four output formats seem most important:
Info, HTML, DVI, and PDF.
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