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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>Printed Books (GNU Texinfo 6.8)</title> <meta name="description" content="Printed Books (GNU Texinfo 6.8)"> <meta name="keywords" content="Printed Books (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="Overview.html" rel="up" title="Overview"> <link href="Adding-Output-Formats.html" rel="next" title="Adding Output Formats"> <link href="Info-Files.html" rel="prev" title="Info Files"> <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="Printed-Books"> <div class="header"> <p> Next: <a href="Adding-Output-Formats.html" accesskey="n" rel="next">Adding Output Formats</a>, Previous: <a href="Info-Files.html" accesskey="p" rel="prev">Info Files</a>, Up: <a href="Overview.html" accesskey="u" rel="up">Overview of Texinfo</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="Printed-Books-1"></span><h3 class="section">1.4 Printed Books</h3> <span id="index-Printed-book-and-manual-characteristics"></span> <span id="index-Manual-characteristics_002c-printed"></span> <span id="index-Book-characteristics_002c-printed"></span> <span id="index-Texinfo-printed-book-characteristics"></span> <span id="index-Characteristics_002c-printed-books-or-manuals"></span> <span id="index-Knuth_002c-Donald"></span> <p>A Texinfo file can be formatted and typeset as a printed book or manual. To do this, you need TeX, a sophisticated typesetting program written by Donald Knuth of Stanford University. It is not part of the Texinfo distribution. </p> <p>Texinfo provides a file <samp>texinfo.tex</samp> that contains the definitions that TeX uses when it typesets a Texinfo file. You can get the latest version of <samp>texinfo.tex</samp> from the Texinfo home page, <a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/">http://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/</a>. </p> <p>A Texinfo-based book is similar to any other typeset, printed work: it can have a title page, copyright page, table of contents, and preface, as well as chapters, numbered or unnumbered sections and subsections, page headers, cross-references, footnotes, and indices. </p> <p>TeX is very powerful and has a great many features. However, because a Texinfo file must be able to present information both on a character-only terminal in Info form and in a typeset book, the formatting commands that Texinfo supports are necessarily limited. </p> <p>See <a href="Hardcopy.html">Formatting and Printing Hardcopy</a>, for more information on processing a manual with TeX. </p> </div> </body> </html>