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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>Info Formatting (GNU Texinfo 6.8)</title> <meta name="description" content="Info Formatting (GNU Texinfo 6.8)"> <meta name="keywords" content="Info Formatting (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="Texinfo-Mode.html" rel="up" title="Texinfo Mode"> <link href="Printing.html" rel="next" title="Printing"> <link href="Updating-Nodes-and-Menus.html" rel="prev" title="Updating Nodes and Menus"> <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="Info-Formatting"> <div class="header"> <p> Next: <a href="Printing.html" accesskey="n" rel="next">Printing</a>, Previous: <a href="Updating-Nodes-and-Menus.html" accesskey="p" rel="prev">Updating Nodes and Menus</a>, Up: <a href="Texinfo-Mode.html" accesskey="u" rel="up">Using Texinfo Mode</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="Formatting-for-Info"></span><h3 class="section">D.6 Formatting for Info</h3> <span id="index-Formatting-for-Info"></span> <span id="index-Running-an-Info-formatter"></span> <span id="index-Info-formatting"></span> <p>Texinfo mode provides several commands for formatting part or all of a Texinfo file for Info. Often, when you are writing a document, you want to format only part of a file—that is, a region. </p> <p>You can use either the <code>texinfo-format-region</code> or the <code>makeinfo-region</code> command to format a region: </p> <dl compact="compact"> <dd><span id="index-texinfo_002dformat_002dregion-1"></span> </dd> <dt><span><kbd>C-c C-e C-r</kbd></span></dt> <dt><span><kbd>M-x texinfo-format-region</kbd></span></dt> <dt><span><kbd>C-c C-m C-r</kbd></span></dt> <dt><span><kbd>M-x makeinfo-region</kbd></span></dt> <dd><p>Format the current region for Info. </p></dd> </dl> <p>You can use either the <code>texinfo-format-buffer</code> or the <code>makeinfo-buffer</code> command to format a whole buffer: </p> <dl compact="compact"> <dd><span id="index-texinfo_002dformat_002dbuffer-1"></span> </dd> <dt><span><kbd>C-c C-e C-b</kbd></span></dt> <dt><span><kbd>M-x texinfo-format-buffer</kbd></span></dt> <dt><span><kbd>C-c C-m C-b</kbd></span></dt> <dt><span><kbd>M-x makeinfo-buffer</kbd></span></dt> <dd><p>Format the current buffer for Info. </p></dd> </dl> <p>For example, after writing a Texinfo file, you can type the following: </p> <div class="example"> <pre class="example">C-u C-c C-u m </pre><pre class="example">or </pre><pre class="example">C-u M-x texinfo-master-menu </pre></div> <p>This updates all the nodes and menus. Then type the following to create an Info file: </p> <div class="example"> <pre class="example">C-c C-m C-b </pre><pre class="example">or </pre><pre class="example">M-x makeinfo-buffer </pre></div> <p>See <a href="Creating-an-Info-File.html">Creating an Info File</a> for details about Info formatting. </p> </div> </body> </html>