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<span id="texi2any-Printed-Output-1"></span><h3 class="section">20.4 <code>texi2any</code> Printed Output</h3>
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<p>To justify the name Texinfo-to-<em>any</em>, <code>texi2any</code> has
basic support for creating printed output in the various formats:
TeX DVI, PDF, and PostScript. This is done via the simple method
of executing the <code>texi2dvi</code> program when those output formats
are requested, after checking the validity of the input to give users
the benefit of <code>texi2any</code>’s error checking. If you don’t want
such error checking, perhaps because your manual plays advanced TeX
tricks together with <samp>texinfo.tex</samp>, just invoke
<code>texi2dvi</code> directly.
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<p>The output format options for this are <samp>--dvi</samp>,
<samp>--dvipdf</samp>, <samp>--pdf</samp>, and <samp>--ps</samp>. See <a href="Format-with-texi2dvi.html">Format with <code>texi2dvi</code></a>, for more details on these options and general
<code>texi2dvi</code> operation. In addition, the <samp>--verbose</samp>,
<samp>--silent</samp>, and <samp>--quiet</samp> options are passed on if
specified; the <samp>-I</samp> and <samp>-o</samp> options are likewise passed
on with their arguments, and <samp>--debug</samp> without its argument.
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<p>The only option remaining that is related to the <code>texi2dvi</code>
invocation is <samp>--Xopt</samp>. Here, just the argument is passed on
and multiple <samp>--Xopt</samp> options accumulate. This provides a way
to construct an arbitrary command line for <code>texi2dvi</code>. For
example, running
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<pre class="example">texi2any --Xopt -t --Xopt @a4paper --pdf foo.texi
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<p>is equivalent to running
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<pre class="example">texi2dvi -t @a4paper --pdf foo.texi
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<p>except for the validity check.
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<p>Although one might wish that other options to <code>texi2any</code> would
take effect, they don’t. For example, running ‘<samp>texi2any
--no-number-sections --dvi foo.texi</samp>’ still results in a DVI file with
numbered sections. (Perhaps this could be improved in the future, if
requests are received.)
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<p>The actual name of the command that is invoked is specified by the
<code>TEXI2DVI</code> customization variable (see <a href="Other-Customization-Variables.html">Other Customization Variables</a>). As you might guess, the default is ‘<samp>texi2dvi</samp>’.
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<p><code>texi2any</code> itself does not generate any normal output when it
invokes <code>texi2dvi</code>, only diagnostic messages.
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