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texinfo/doc/README
- Copyright 2002-2019 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+ Copyright 2002-2021 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
Copying and distribution of this file, with or without modification,
are permitted in any medium without royalty provided the copyright
notice and this notice are preserved.
This directory contains documentation on the Texinfo system and the TeX
-sources needed to process Texinfo sources. We recommend using the
-texi2dvi included in this distribution to run a Texinfo manual through
-TeX to produce a DVI file.
-
-The .tex files are not installed automatically because TeX installations
-vary so widely. Installing them in the wrong place would give a false
-sense of security. So, you should simply cp *.tex to the appropriate
-place. If your installation follows the TeX Directory Structure
-standard (http://tug.org/tds/), this will be the directory
+sources needed to process Texinfo sources.
+
+The .tex files are not installed automatically because TeX
+installations vary so widely. Installing them in the wrong place
+would give a false sense of security. So to allow "\input texinfo"
+in your Texinfo files to find the correct version of texinfo.tex,
+you should simply cp *.tex to the appropriate place.
+
+If your installation follows the TeX Directory Structure
+standard (http://tug.org/tds/), this place will be the directory
TEXMF/tex/texinfo/ for texinfo.tex, and TEXMF/tex/generic/epsf/ for
-epsf.tex.
+epsf.tex, where TEXMF is a root of a TeX hierachy.
-It is also possible to put these .tex files in a `local' place instead
-of overwriting existing ones, but this is more complicated. See your TeX
-documentation in general and the texmf.cnf file in particular for information.
+It is possible to put these .tex files in a `local' place instead
+of overwriting existing ones. You might find where this is by running
+`kpsewhich -var-value TEXMFLOCAL'.
If you add files to your TeX installations, not just replace existing
-ones, you very likely have to update your ls-R file; do this by
-running the mktexlsr command.
+ones, you very likely will also have to update your ls-R file; do
+this by running the mktexlsr command.
+
+For information on how or where to install files, see your TeX documentation
+in general (i.e. web2c and kpathsea manuals), and the texmf.cnf file.
+
+An alternative is to copy texinfo.tex to the same directory as your
+Texinfo manual, but this is not especially recommended.
You can get the latest texinfo.tex from
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/texinfo/texinfo.tex (and all GNU mirrors)