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Command
line options for Makeinfo
The
following command line options are available for Makeinfo.
-
-I dir
-
Adds dir
to the directory search list for finding files which are included with
the @include
command. By default, only the current directory is searched.
-
-D var
-
Defines the Texinfo flag, var.
This is equivalent to @set
var
in the Texinfo file.
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-U var
-
Makes the Texinfo flag, var,
undefined. This is equivalent to @clear
var in
the Texinfo file.
-
--error-limit num
-
Sets the maximum number of errors
that Makeinfo
will print before exiting (on the assumption that continuing would be useless).
The default number of errors printed before Makeinfo
gives up on processing the input file is 100.
-
--fill-column num
-
Specifies the maximum right-hand
edge of a line. Paragraphs that are filled will be filled to this width.
The default value for fill-column is 72.
-
--footnote-style style
-
Sets the footnote style to style.
style
should either be separate
to have Makeinfo
create a separate node containing the footnotes which appear in the current
node, or end
to have Makeinfo
place the footnotes at the end of the current node.
-
--no-headers
-
Suppress the generation of menus
and node headers. This option is useful together with the --output
file
and --no-split
options (see following options) to produce a simple formatted file (suitable
for printing on a dumb printer) from Texinfo source. If you do not have
TEX, these two options may allow you to get readable hard copy.
-
--no-split
-
Suppress the splitting stage
of Makeinfo.
In general, large output files (where the size is greater than 70k bytes)
are split into smaller subfiles, each one approximately 50k bytes.
-
If you specify --no-split,
Makeinfo
will not split up the output file.
--no-pointer-validate
-
--no-validate
-
Suppress the validation phase
of Makeinfo.
Normally, after the file is processed, some consistency checks are made
to ensure that cross references can be resolved, and so forth. See What
makes a valid info
file?.
-
--no-warn
-
Suppress the output of warning
messages. This does not suppress the output of error messages, simply warnings.
You might want this if the file you are creating has texinfo examples in
it, and the nodes that are referenced dont actually exist.
-
--no-number-footnotes
-
Suppress the automatic numbering
of footnotes. The default is to number each footnote sequentially in a
single node, resetting the current footnote number to 1
at the start of each node.
-
--output file
-
-o file
-
Specify that the output should
be directed to file
instead of
the file name specified in the @setfilename
command found in the Texinfo source. file
can be the
special token -,
which specifies standard output.
-
--paragraph-indent num
-
Sets the paragraph indentation
to num.
The value of num
is interpreted as follows:
-
-
A value of 0
(or none) means not to change the existing indentation (in the source
file) at the start of paragraphs.
-
A value less than zero means
to indent paragraph starts to column zero by deleting any existing indentation.
-
A value greater than zero is
the number of spaces to leave at the front of each paragraph start.
-
--reference-limit
num
-
When a node has many references
in a single Texinfo file, this may indicate an error in the structure of
the file. num
is the number of times a given node may be referenced before Makeinfo
prints a warning message about it (with @prev,
@next,
or @note
appearing in an @menu,
for example).
-
--verbose
-
Causes Makeinfo
to inform you as to what it is doing. Normally Makeinfo
only outputs text if there are errors or warnings.
-
--version
-
Displays the Makeinfo
version number.
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