[kde-doc-english] Info files are in info format

[Burkhard Lück]

Am Freitag, 7. Juni 2013, 15:23:28 schrieb T.C. Hollingsworth:
> On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 2:09 PM, Křištof Želechovski
> 
> <giecrilj at 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.  

+1

> 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?  

Yes.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Info_(Unix) has a nice explanation of "Info"

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Burkhard Lück