8.  Info files

Many troffglodytes have no use for HTML and would rather view their troff document as an Info file. Info files can be browsed very rapidly in a text editor or a lightweight console browser; provide significantly better cross-referencing and search than nroff output from the same troff source; and as plain text, are not opaque like the equivalent HTML.

The troff2page distribution includes a script t2p2info for converting troff2page-generated HTML into Info. t2p2info uses a combination of the ex mode of the vim text editor, some shell commands, lynx’s -dump feature, and makeinfo.

t2p2info takes as argument the filename of the main HTML file created by troff2page, e.g.,

(The extension .html may be omitted.) The result is one or more Info files, the first of them named jobname.info. These Info files can be browsed in a text editor that supports Info, or with the info command, e.g.,