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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>Requirements Summary (GNU Texinfo 6.8)</title> <meta name="description" content="Requirements Summary (GNU Texinfo 6.8)"> <meta name="keywords" content="Requirements Summary (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="Hardcopy.html" rel="up" title="Hardcopy"> <link href="Preparing-for-TeX.html" rel="next" title="Preparing for TeX"> <link href="Compile_002dCommand.html" rel="prev" title="Compile-Command"> <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="Requirements-Summary"> <div class="header"> <p> Next: <a href="Preparing-for-TeX.html" accesskey="n" rel="next">Preparing for TeX</a>, Previous: <a href="Compile_002dCommand.html" accesskey="p" rel="prev">Using the Local Variables List</a>, Up: <a href="Hardcopy.html" accesskey="u" rel="up">Formatting and Printing Hardcopy</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="TeX-Formatting-Requirements-Summary"></span><h3 class="section">18.8 TeX Formatting Requirements Summary</h3> <span id="index-Requirements-for-formatting"></span> <span id="index-Minimal-requirements-for-formatting"></span> <span id="index-Formatting-requirements"></span> <p>Every Texinfo file that is to be input to TeX must begin with a <code>\input</code> command: </p> <div class="example"> <pre class="example">\input texinfo </pre></div> <p>This instructs TeX to load the macros it needs to process a Texinfo file. </p> <p>Every Texinfo file must end with a line that terminates TeX’s processing and forces out unfinished pages: </p> <div class="example"> <pre class="example">@bye </pre></div> <p>Strictly speaking, these two lines are all a Texinfo file needs to be processed successfully by TeX. </p> <p>Usually, however, the beginning includes a <code>@settitle</code> command to define the title of the printed manual, a title page, a copyright page, permissions, and a table of contents. Besides <code>@bye</code>, the end of a file usually includes indices. (Not to mention that most manuals contain a body of text as well.) </p> <p>For more information, see: </p> <ul> <li> <a href="_0040settitle.html"><code>@settitle</code>: Set the Document Title</a>. </li><li> <a href="_0040setchapternewpage.html"><code>@setchapternewpage</code>: Blank Pages Before Chapters</a>. </li><li> <a href="Headings.html">Page Headings</a>. </li><li> <a href="Titlepage-_0026-Copyright-Page.html">Title and Copyright Pages</a>. </li><li> <a href="Printing-Indices-_0026-Menus.html">Printing Indices and Menus</a>. </li><li> <a href="Contents.html">Generating a Table of Contents</a>. </li></ul> </div> </body> </html>