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Subject: Re: [kde-doc-english] Info files are in info format
From: "T.C. Hollingsworth" <tchollingsworth () gmail ! com>
Date: 2013-06-07 22:23:28
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On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 2:09 PM, Křištof Želechovski
<giecrilj@stegny.2a.pl> wrote:
> #. Tag: para
>
> #: index.docbook:22
> #, fuzzy, no-c-format
> msgid ""
> "Info is a type of documentation. The documents are in a file format called
> "
> "texinfo, and can be read on the command line with the <ulink
> url=\"info:/info"
> "\"><command>info</command></ulink> program."
What docbook is this in?
> No they are not, texinfo is a different format.
Yeah, texinfo is the source format, isn't it? Looks like this
(wherever it is ;-) isn't the only place we confuse this,
khelpcenter's docbook uses this term too.
> Info documents are text files logically divided into pages with a
> hierarchical structure and cross-references. They are typically produced by
> a processor named makeinfo. They can be viewed in the teletype <ulink
> url=\"info:/info"
> "\"><command>info</command></ulink> program.
Depending on where this is this might be a bit too technical. Users
just want to RTFM, not learn the various intricacies of the nine
million different documentation formats used on UNIX-like systems.
;-)
More useful information would be what *sort* of information lives in
info documentation. The answer is pretty much anything made by GNU,
right? Anything else?
-T.C.
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