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To: lucio@proxima.alt.za, 9fans@9fans.net
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 11:47:35 +0000
From: Robert Raschke <rrplan9@tombob.com>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] TeX - Plan 9 model
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Lucio writes:
>> <eof>minooka; tex hello.tex
>> This is TeX, Version 3.14159 (Web2C 7.2)
>
> Works as documented.  But the same with, say, core.texi, gives me an
> error, presumably because the texinfo.tex macros are not preloaded.
> So I need some advice on how to combine the two (or more) documents.
> The texi2dvi script supplied with texinfo is way too arcane for my
> understanding.  I need a simple "rc" equivalent.
>

The .texi file is not actually TeX.

The GNU Texinfo package uses TeX as one of the intermediate components
when creating PDF output, and it uses other tools to create plain
text, .info, etc.  So, I guess, you need to port texinfo.  Maybe only
trying to isolate the code that creates the TeX intermediate file is
viable?  Although, I wouldn't be surprised if that uses Perl or
somesuch.

Sorry for not being helpful,
Robby