Re: Exporting form emacs texinfo-mode to dvi, pdf, and html

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: lisa-asket@perso.be
> Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2021 01:56:11 +0200 (CEST)
> 
> Mhen I am in emacs org mode, it is very easy to write plain-text documents and
> export them using latex to pdf.
> 
> But if I write a texinfo file, I cannot use emacs to easily export the 
> document to
> dvi, pdf, or html.  A capability in the menu in texinfo mode would be 
> appreciated.

Texinfo documents are not plain text documents, so their typesetting
is more complex than just Org-style "export".  For that reason, a
project that supports producing printed manuals usually has a Makefile
with the corresponding settings and commands.  With such projects,
what you want to do is achieved by something like

  M-x compile RET make PDF RET

This will invoke Make to produce the printed manual.