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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> <html> <!-- Created by GNU Texinfo 6.8, https://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/ --> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> <!-- This manual is for GNU Texinfo (version 6.8, 8 June 2021), a documentation system that can produce both online information and a printed manual from a single source using semantic markup. Copyright (C) 1988, 1990-1993, 1995-1999, 2001-2021 Free Software Foundation, Inc. Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, with no Front-Cover Texts, and with no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled "GNU Free Documentation License". --> <title>Creating an Info File (GNU Texinfo 6.8)</title> <meta name="description" content="Creating an Info File (GNU Texinfo 6.8)"> <meta name="keywords" content="Creating an Info File (GNU Texinfo 6.8)"> <meta name="resource-type" content="document"> <meta name="distribution" content="global"> <meta name="Generator" content="texi2any"> <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width,initial-scale=1"> <link href="index.html" rel="start" title="Top"> <link href="Command-and-Variable-Index.html" rel="index" title="Command and Variable Index"> <link href="index.html#SEC_Contents" rel="contents" title="Table of Contents"> <link href="Creating-and-Installing-Info-Files.html" rel="up" title="Creating and Installing Info Files"> <link href="Installing-an-Info-File.html" rel="next" title="Installing an Info File"> <style type="text/css"> <!-- a.copiable-anchor {visibility: hidden; text-decoration: none; line-height: 0em} a.summary-letter {text-decoration: none} blockquote.indentedblock {margin-right: 0em} div.display {margin-left: 3.2em} div.example {margin-left: 3.2em} kbd {font-style: oblique} pre.display {font-family: inherit} pre.format {font-family: inherit} pre.menu-comment {font-family: serif} pre.menu-preformatted {font-family: serif} span.nolinebreak {white-space: nowrap} span.roman {font-family: initial; font-weight: normal} span.sansserif {font-family: sans-serif; font-weight: normal} span:hover a.copiable-anchor {visibility: visible} ul.no-bullet {list-style: none} --> </style> </head> <body lang="en"> <div class="section" id="Creating-an-Info-File"> <div class="header"> <p> Next: <a href="Installing-an-Info-File.html" accesskey="n" rel="next">Installing an Info File</a>, Up: <a href="Creating-and-Installing-Info-Files.html" accesskey="u" rel="up">Creating and Installing Info Files</a> [<a href="index.html#SEC_Contents" title="Table of contents" rel="contents">Contents</a>][<a href="Command-and-Variable-Index.html" title="Index" rel="index">Index</a>]</p> </div> <hr> <span id="Creating-an-Info-File-1"></span><h3 class="section">20.1 Creating an Info File</h3> <span id="index-Creating-an-Info-file"></span> <span id="index-Info_002c-creating-an-online-file"></span> <span id="index-Formatting-a-file-for-Info"></span> <p><code>makeinfo</code> is a program that converts a Texinfo file into an Info file, HTML file, or plain text. <code>texinfo-format-region</code> and <code>texinfo-format-buffer</code> are GNU Emacs functions that convert Texinfo to Info. </p> <p>For information on installing the Info file in the Info system, see <a href="Installing-an-Info-File.html">Installing an Info File</a>. </p> <ul class="section-toc"> <li><a href="makeinfo-Advantages.html" accesskey="1"><code>makeinfo</code> Advantages</a></li> <li><a href="makeinfo-in-Emacs.html" accesskey="2">Running <code>makeinfo</code> Within Emacs</a></li> <li><a href="texinfo_002dformat-commands.html" accesskey="3">The <code>texinfo-format…</code> Commands</a></li> <li><a href="Batch-Formatting.html" accesskey="4">Batch Formatting</a></li> <li><a href="Tag-and-Split-Files.html" accesskey="5">Tag Files and Split Files</a></li> </ul> </div> </body> </html>