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<span id="texi2any_003a-The-Generic-Translator-for-Texinfo"></span><h2 class="chapter">20 <code>texi2any</code>: The Generic Translator for Texinfo</h2>
<p><code>texi2any</code> is the generic translator for Texinfo that can
produce different output formats and is highly customizable. It
supports these formats:
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<dt>Info (by default, or with <samp>--info</samp>),</dt>
<dt>HTML (with <samp>--html</samp>),</dt>
<dt>plain text (with <samp>--plaintext</samp>),</dt>
<dt>Docbook (with <samp>--docbook</samp>),</dt>
<dt>Texinfo XML (with <samp>--xml</samp>).</dt>
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<p><code>makeinfo</code> is an alias for <code>texi2any</code>. By default,
both <code>texi2any</code> and <code>makeinfo</code> generate Info output;
indeed, there are no differences in behavior based on the name.
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<p>Beside these default formats, command line options to
<code>texi2any</code> can change many aspects of the output. Beyond
that, initialization files provide even more control over the final
output—nearly anything not specified in the Texinfo input file.
Initialization files are written in Perl, like the main program, and
anything which can be specified on the command line can also be
specified within a initialization file.
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<p>The rest of this chapter goes into the details.
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<tr><td align="left" valign="top">• <a href="Reference-Implementation.html" accesskey="1">Reference Implementation</a></td><td> </td><td align="left" valign="top"><code>texi2any</code>: the reference implementation.
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<tr><td align="left" valign="top">• <a href="Invoking-texi2any.html" accesskey="2">Invoking <code>texi2any</code></a></td><td> </td><td align="left" valign="top">Running the translator from a shell.
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<tr><td align="left" valign="top">• <a href="texi2any-Environment-Variables.html" accesskey="3"><code>texi2any</code> Environment Variables</a></td><td> </td><td align="left" valign="top">
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<tr><td align="left" valign="top">• <a href="texi2any-Printed-Output.html" accesskey="4"><code>texi2any</code> Printed Output</a></td><td> </td><td align="left" valign="top">Calling <code>texi2dvi</code>.
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<tr><td align="left" valign="top">• <a href="Pointer-Validation.html" accesskey="5">Pointer Validation</a></td><td> </td><td align="left" valign="top">How to check that pointers point somewhere.
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<tr><td align="left" valign="top">• <a href="Customization-Variables.html" accesskey="6">Customization Variables</a></td><td> </td><td align="left" valign="top">Configuring <code>texi2any</code>.
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<tr><td align="left" valign="top">• <a href="Internationalization-of-Document-Strings.html" accesskey="7">Internationalization of Document Strings</a></td><td> </td><td align="left" valign="top">Translating program-inserted text.
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<tr><td align="left" valign="top">• <a href="Invoking-pod2texi.html" accesskey="8">Invoking <code>pod2texi</code></a></td><td> </td><td align="left" valign="top">Translating Perl pod to Texinfo.
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<tr><td align="left" valign="top">• <a href="texi2html.html" accesskey="9"><code>texi2html</code></a></td><td> </td><td align="left" valign="top">An ancestor of <code>texi2any</code>.
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