TEXINFO(5)

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💖 TEXINFO(5) 💖

okay bestie, so this is the manual page for texinfo, living in section 5 (that's the File Formats Manual section, for the record) and it's literally the whole documentation system. welcome to the group chat. 🎀

✨ NAME ✨

texinfo — the software documentation system, periodt. 💅

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

So like, Texinfo is a documentation system, right? And the way it works is iconic: you write one single source file and it produces both online information and printed output from it. one file, two vibes, no cap. ✨

It's primarily designed for writing software manuals — that's its whole main character energy. 📖

Now if you want the full description of the Texinfo language and all the associated tools (and honestly, you do), please go read the Texinfo manual itself — which, yes, is written in Texinfo, it's very self-referential and honestly kind of slay. 💖

Most likely, running this command from your shell:

info texinfo

or this key sequence from inside Emacs:

M-x info RET m texinfo RET

will get you there. easy. 🦋

🔥 AVAILABILITY 🔥

you can find it at:

https://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/

or literally any GNU mirror site. go off. 🌈

😭 REPORTING BUGS 😭

found a bug? not me gatekeeping the bug reports. please send them to bug-texinfo@gnu.org. 💌

and if you've got general questions or just wanna discuss, that goes to help-texinfo@gnu.org — they're nice, fr fr. 🫶

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

the whole little friend group. 🧚

and that's the whole page bestie, you ate it up 💅

this one was brought to you by the FSF and GNU Texinfo — that's the source/version tea right there, and the date is just vibes at this point. mwah. 💖✨🌸🦋🎀

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