/usr/share/doc/texinfo/html/Printing.html

<html lang="en">
<head>
<title>Printing - GNU Texinfo 4.13</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html">
<meta name="description" content="GNU Texinfo 4.13">
<meta name="generator" content="makeinfo 4.13">
<link title="Top" rel="start" href="index.html#Top">
<link rel="up" href="Texinfo-Mode.html#Texinfo-Mode" title="Texinfo Mode">
<link rel="prev" href="Info-Formatting.html#Info-Formatting" title="Info Formatting">
<link rel="next" href="Texinfo-Mode-Summary.html#Texinfo-Mode-Summary" title="Texinfo Mode Summary">
<link href="http://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/" rel="generator-home" title="Texinfo Homepage">
<!--
This manual is for GNU Texinfo (version 4.13, 18 September 2008),
a documentation system that can produce both online information and a
printed manual from a single source.

Copyright (C) 1988, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1995, 1996, 1997,
1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008
Free Software Foundation, Inc.

     Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this
     document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License,
     Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software
     Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, with the Front-Cover Texts
     being ``A GNU Manual'', and with the Back-Cover Texts as in (a)
     below.  A copy of the license is included in the section entitled
     ``GNU Free Documentation License.''

     (a) The FSF's Back-Cover Text is: ``You are free to copy and modify
     this GNU Manual.  Buying copies from GNU Press supports the FSF in
     developing GNU and promoting software freedom.''
  -->
<meta http-equiv="Content-Style-Type" content="text/css">
<style type="text/css"><!--
  pre.display { font-family:inherit }
  pre.format  { font-family:inherit }
  pre.smalldisplay { font-family:inherit; font-size:smaller }
  pre.smallformat  { font-family:inherit; font-size:smaller }
  pre.smallexample { font-size:smaller }
  pre.smalllisp    { font-size:smaller }
  span.sc    { font-variant:small-caps }
  span.roman { font-family:serif; font-weight:normal; } 
  span.sansserif { font-family:sans-serif; font-weight:normal; } 
--></style>
</head>
<body>
<div class="node">
<a name="Printing"></a>
<p>
Next:&nbsp;<a rel="next" accesskey="n" href="Texinfo-Mode-Summary.html#Texinfo-Mode-Summary">Texinfo Mode Summary</a>,
Previous:&nbsp;<a rel="previous" accesskey="p" href="Info-Formatting.html#Info-Formatting">Info Formatting</a>,
Up:&nbsp;<a rel="up" accesskey="u" href="Texinfo-Mode.html#Texinfo-Mode">Texinfo Mode</a>
<hr>
</div>

<!-- node-name,  next,  previous,  up -->
<h3 class="section">2.7 Printing</h3>

<p><a name="index-Formatting-for-printing-146"></a><a name="index-Printing-a-region-or-buffer-147"></a><a name="index-Region-formatting-and-printing-148"></a><a name="index-Buffer-formatting-and-printing-149"></a><a name="index-Part-of-file-formatting-and-printing-150"></a>
Typesetting and printing a Texinfo file is a multi-step process in which
you first create a file for printing (called a DVI file), and then
print the file.  Optionally, you may also create indices.  To do this,
you must run the <code>texindex</code> command after first running the
<code>tex</code> typesetting command; and then you must run the <code>tex</code>
command again.  Or else run the <code>texi2dvi</code> command which
automatically creates indices as needed (see <a href="Format-with-texi2dvi.html#Format-with-texi2dvi">Format with texi2dvi</a>).

  <p>Often, when you are writing a document, you want to typeset and print
only part of a file to see what it will look like.  You can use the
<code>texinfo-tex-region</code> and related commands for this purpose.  Use
the <code>texinfo-tex-buffer</code> command to format all of a
buffer.

     <dl>
<dt><kbd>C-c C-t C-b</kbd><dt><kbd>M-x texinfo-tex-buffer</kbd><dd><a name="index-texinfo_002dtex_002dbuffer-151"></a>Run <code>texi2dvi</code> on the buffer.  In addition to running TeX on the
buffer, this command automatically creates or updates indices as
needed.

     <br><dt><kbd>C-c C-t C-r</kbd><dt><kbd>M-x texinfo-tex-region</kbd><dd><a name="index-texinfo_002dtex_002dregion-152"></a>Run TeX on the region.

     <br><dt><kbd>C-c C-t C-i</kbd><dt><kbd>M-x texinfo-texindex</kbd><dd>Run <code>texindex</code> to sort the indices of a Texinfo file formatted with
<code>texinfo-tex-region</code>.  The <code>texinfo-tex-region</code> command does
not run <code>texindex</code> automatically; it only runs the <code>tex</code>
typesetting command.  You must run the <code>texinfo-tex-region</code> command
a second time after sorting the raw index files with the <code>texindex</code>
command.  (Usually, you do not format an index when you format a region,
only when you format a buffer.  Now that the <code>texi2dvi</code> command
exists, there is little or no need for this command.)

     <br><dt><kbd>C-c C-t C-p</kbd><dt><kbd>M-x texinfo-tex-print</kbd><dd><a name="index-texinfo_002dtex_002dprint-153"></a>Print the file (or the part of the file) previously formatted with
<code>texinfo-tex-buffer</code> or <code>texinfo-tex-region</code>. 
</dl>

  <p>For <code>texinfo-tex-region</code> or <code>texinfo-tex-buffer</code> to work, the
file <em>must</em> start with a &lsquo;<samp><span class="samp">\input texinfo</span></samp>&rsquo; line and must
include an <code>@settitle</code> line.  The file must end with <code>@bye</code>
on a line by itself.  (When you use <code>texinfo-tex-region</code>, you must
surround the <code>@settitle</code> line with start-of-header and
end-of-header lines.)

  <p>See <a href="Hardcopy.html#Hardcopy">Hardcopy</a>, for a description of the other TeX related
commands, such as <code>tex-show-print-queue</code>.

  </body></html>
texinfo-doc-nonfree 4.13a-1 / usr / share / doc / texinfo / html / Printing.html
