Re: LaTeX to TeXinfo

[Jay Belanger]

"Fred L. Drake, Jr." <address@hidden> writes:

> Karl Berry writes:
>  >     Is there a program to convert a LaTeX document to a TeXinfo document?
>  > 
>  > I can't give you an exact reference, but a couple months ago Fred Drake,
>  > the python documentation maintainer, wrote to bug-texinfo and said they
>  > maintain their doc in LaTeX, but convert it to Texinfo.
>  > 
>  > Fred, can you help?
> 
> I can certainly point out what we have at this time.
...
> Within the Doc/ directory, take a look at the tools/mkinfo script.
> This calls out to FSF Emacs (XEmacs won't work, unfortunately) to
> conver the LaTeX to TeXinfo using Emacs Lisp, and then GNU makeinfo to
> generate the actual GNU info documents.  The conversion is less than
> ideal, but may be the best format available for people running
> Emacs/OS.

Thanks a lot!  I haven't tried it with a generic LaTeX document, but
it certainly gives me a place to start.  I appreciate the information
and help.

Jay