Formatting and Printing Hardcopy

There are three major shell commands for making a printed manual from a Texinfo file: one for converting the Texinfo file into a file that will be printed, a second for sorting indices, and a third for printing the formatted document. When you use the shell commands, you can either work directly in the operating system shell or work within a shell inside GNU Emacs.

If you are using GNU Emacs, you can use commands provided by Texinfo mode instead of shell commands. In addition to the three commands to format a file, sort the indices, and print the result, Texinfo mode offers key bindings for commands to recenter the output buffer, show the print queue, and delete a job from the print queue.

• Use TeX: Use TeX to format for hardcopy.
• Format with tex/texindex: How to format with explicit shell commands.
• Format with texi2dvi: A simpler way to format.
• Print with lpr: How to print.
• Within Emacs: How to format and print from an Emacs shell.
• Texinfo Mode Printing: How to format and print in Texinfo mode.
• Compile-Command: How to print using Emacs's compile command.
• Requirements Summary: TeX formatting requirements summary.
• Preparing for TeX: What to do before you use TeX.
• Overfull hboxes: What are and what to do with overfull hboxes.
• smallbook: How to print small format books and manuals.
• A4 Paper: How to print on A4 or A5 paper.
• pagesizes: How to print with customized page sizes.
• Cropmarks and Magnification: How to print marks to indicate the size of pages and how to print scaled up output.
• PDF Output: Portable Document Format output.