MAKEINFO(1)         ST Programmer's Manual           MAKEINFO(1)



NAME
     makeinfo - format texinfo files into files suitable for
     reading with GNU info.

SYNOPSIS
     makeinfo [ +no-validate ] [ +no-warn ] [ +no-split ]
     [+only-split ] [ +no-headers ] [ +verbose ] [ +version ]
     [+paragraph-indent <val> ] [ +fill-column <val> ]
     [ +error-limit <val> ] [ +reference-limit <val> ]
     [ +footnote-style <val> ]
     [ -o <name> ] [ -f <val> ] [ -p <val> ] [ -e <val> ]
     [ -s <val> ] [ -f <val> ] [ -l ] [ -V ] file ...

DESCRIPTION
     Makefinfo reads texinfo file file and creates an output file
     suitable for reading with GNU info.  Default name for output
     is created from a basename by appending `.info' to it.  When
     output file is big enough and +no-split option was not
     specified then output is divided in smaller chunks and addi-
     tional names will have suffixes like `.info-1', `.info-2'
     and so on.  For systems where such long suffixes are not
     supported `info' string is dropped and extra suffixes are
     created as `.-1', `.-2', ..., and so on.

OPTIONS
     Some options may have both long and short forms.  Here is a
     summary.

     +no-validate
          suppres node cross reference validation.

     +no-warn
          do not show warning messages (errors are still output).

     +no-split
          do not split resulting info file

     +only-split,  -l
          skip formatting and only split already formatted info
          file.  Input file has to have tags table in it.

     +no-headers
          do not write node headers, like `Node: Foo' to output
          file.

     +verbose
          be slightly more informative what you are doing

     +version,  -V
          print the version number of makeinfo

     +paragraph-indent <val>,  -p <val>
          set paragraph indent to <val>.  Accepted values are
          `none', `asis' or a number of spaces to indent.  Nega-
          tive values are treated as zero.  Default paragraph
          indent is 3 spaces.

     +fill-column <val>, -f <val>
          set fill column to <val>. Default column is 72.

     +error-limit <val>, -e <val>
          stop processing when <val> errors is reached.  Default
          is 100.

     +reference-limit <val>, -r <val>
          warn when some node was referenced too many times.
          Default is 1000.

     +footnote-style <style>, -s <style>
          set style either to `separate' where footnotes are
          placed in their own node or to `end' (default) where
          footnotes are output at the bottom of a node in which
          they were defined.

SEE ALSO
     info(l), texindex(l)

BUGS
     All processing is done in memory so makeinfo may fail with
     bigger files when memory is limited.  If you got a failure
     after the first stage  you still can use +only-split option
     to split info file in a separate step.  This can be a pre-
     ferred course of action when a disk space may be not ample
     enough.  During an execution of both stages together make-
     info needs an extra disk space of roughly double size of an
     original input.