.\" DO NOT MODIFY THIS FILE! It was generated by help2man 1.34. .TH MAKEINFO "1" "December 2004" "makeinfo 4.8" "User Commands" .SH NAME makeinfo \- translate Texinfo documents .SH SYNOPSIS .B makeinfo [\fIOPTION\fR]... \fITEXINFO-FILE\fR... .SH DESCRIPTION Translate Texinfo source documentation to various other formats, by default Info files suitable for reading online with Emacs or standalone GNU Info. .SS "General options:" .TP \fB\-\-error\-limit\fR=\fINUM\fR quit after NUM errors (default 100). .TP \fB\-\-force\fR preserve output even if errors. .TP \fB\-\-help\fR display this help and exit. .TP \fB\-\-no\-validate\fR suppress node cross\-reference validation. .TP \fB\-\-no\-warn\fR suppress warnings (but not errors). .TP \fB\-\-reference\-limit\fR=\fINUM\fR warn about at most NUM references (default 1000). .TP \fB\-v\fR, \fB\-\-verbose\fR explain what is being done. .TP \fB\-\-version\fR display version information and exit. .SS "Output format selection (default is to produce Info):" .TP \fB\-\-docbook\fR output Docbook XML rather than Info. .TP \fB\-\-html\fR output HTML rather than Info. .TP \fB\-\-xml\fR output Texinfo XML rather than Info. .TP \fB\-\-plaintext\fR output plain text rather than Info. .SS "General output options:" .TP \fB\-E\fR, \fB\-\-macro\-expand\fR FILE output macro\-expanded source to FILE. ignoring any @setfilename. .TP \fB\-\-no\-headers\fR suppress node separators, Node: lines, and menus from Info output (thus producing plain text) or from HTML (thus producing shorter output); also, write to standard output by default. .TP \fB\-\-no\-split\fR suppress splitting of Info or HTML output, generate only one output file. .TP \fB\-\-number\-sections\fR output chapter and sectioning numbers. .TP \fB\-o\fR, \fB\-\-output\fR=\fIFILE\fR output to FILE (directory if split HTML), .SS "Options for Info and plain text:" .TP \fB\-\-enable\-encoding\fR output accented and special characters in Info output based on @documentencoding. .TP \fB\-\-fill\-column\fR=\fINUM\fR break Info lines at NUM characters (default 72). .TP \fB\-\-footnote\-style\fR=\fISTYLE\fR output footnotes in Info according to STYLE: `separate' to put them in their own node; `end' to put them at the end of the node .IP in which they are defined (default). .TP \fB\-\-paragraph\-indent\fR=\fIVAL\fR indent Info paragraphs by VAL spaces (default 3). If VAL is `none', do not indent; if VAL is `asis', preserve existing indentation. .TP \fB\-\-split\-size\fR=\fINUM\fR split Info files at size NUM (default 300000). .SS "Options for HTML:" .TP \fB\-\-css\-include\fR=\fIFILE\fR include FILE in HTML