Re: extracting texinfo documentation

[Søren Hauberg]

On Oct 30, 2012, at 11:13 AM, Massimo Manghi wrote:

> Hi, sorry this is probably one of most silly questions that can be asked.
> 
> Recently Juan Pablo published a findpeaks.m function which bears a detailed 
> texinfo manual in it. I never used texinfo but I took as an copportunity to 
> learn something new. So told myself that since 'help findpeaks' automatically 
> squeezes out that manual page a standalone tool to do the same had to exist, 
> but I could not find it. Is there a proper way to create texi files or send 
> to a pipe the same data obtained from embedded texinfo docs?

Have a look at the source for 'help' (do 'type help' at the Octave prompt). I 
think the functions you are interested in are, 'get_help_text' and 
'__makeinfo__'.

Søren