texinfo: makeinfo Advantages

Creating an Info File

makeinfo in Emacs

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23.1.1 'makeinfo' Advantages
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The 'makeinfo' utility creates an Info file from a Texinfo source
providing better error messages than either of the Emacs formatting
commands.  We recommend it.  The 'makeinfo' program is independent of
Emacs.  You can run 'makeinfo' in any of three ways: from an operating
system shell, from a shell inside Emacs, or by typing the 'C-c C-m C-r'
or the 'C-c C-m C-b' command in Texinfo mode in Emacs.

  The 'texinfo-format-region' and the 'texinfo-format-buffer' commands
may be useful if you cannot run 'makeinfo'.