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Formatting and Printing Hardcopy
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  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.

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