db2x_texixml - Make Texinfo files from Texi-XML

db2x_texixml [options]... [xml-document]

db2x_texixml converts a Texi-XML document into one or more Texinfo documents.

If xml-document is not given, then the document to convert comes from standard input.

The filenames of the Texinfo documents are determined by markup in the Texi-XML source. (If the filenames are not specified in the markup, then db2x_texixml attempts to deduce them from the name of the input file. However, the Texi-XML source should specify the filename, because it does not work when there are multiple output files or when the Texi-XML source comes from standard input.)

--encoding=encoding

Select the character encoding used for the output files. The available encodings are those of iconv(1). The default encoding is us-ascii.

The XML source may contain characters that are not representable in the encoding that you select; in this case the program will bomb out during processing, and you should choose another encoding. (This is guaranteed not to happen with any Unicode encoding such as UTF-8, but unfortunately not everyone is able to process Unicode texts.)

If you are using GNU's version of iconv(1), you can affix //TRANSLIT to the end of the encoding name to attempt transliterations of any unconvertible characters in the output. Beware, however, that the really inconvertible characters will be turned into another of those damned question marks. (Aren't you sick of software completely oblivious to your beautiful language!?)

--list-files

Write a list of all the output files to standard output, in addition to normal processing.

--to-stdout

Write the output to standard output instead of to individual files.

If the program would normally output a series of files, then under this option, their contents will all be concatenated in one piece to standard out. However, other programs will usually not accept this concatenated output; you really only want to use this option when you are sure that you have only one single output file.

This option is incompatible with --list-files, obviously.

--info

Pipe the Texinfo output to makeinfo, creating Info files directly instead of Texinfo files.

--help

Show brief usage information and exit.

--version

Show version and exit.

This program uses certain other programs for its operation. If they are not in their default installed locations, then use the following options to set their location:

--utf8trans-program=path, --utf8trans-map=charmap

Use the character map charmap with the utf8trans(1) program, included with docbook2X, found under path.

--iconv-program=path

The location of the iconv(1) program, used for encoding conversions.

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Text wrapping in menus is utterly broken for non-ASCII text. It is probably also broken everywhere else in the output, but that would be makeinfo's fault.

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--list-files might not work correctly with --info. Specifically, when the output Info file get too big, makeinfo will decide to split it into parts named abc.info-1, abc.info-2, abc.info-3, etc. db2x_texixml does not know exactly how many of these files there are, though you can just do an ls to find out.