Re: Feature request, generating a man page from a node

[Eli Zaretskii]

On 28 Jun 2000, Niels Möller wrote:

> Personally, I like info and makeinfo, (except for the broken handling
> of latin-1 characters, I haven't yet been able to get them right in
> both info and TeX).

AFAIK, makeinfo and info are supposed to be 8-bit clean, so you should
not have any problems with latin-1.  Please elaborate, with examples,
if possible.

> I don't want to convert an entire texinfo manual to a man page. I want
> to create reasonably short man pages from selected nodes in the input
> file, in particular the "Invoking ..."-style nodes.

Does this do what you want:

  info foo --usage --subnodes > foo.man

In fact, "info --usage" was designed to replace the man pages
entirely, since it gives you an immediate access to the usage section
of the manual.  If that is not enough to replace the man pages, please
tell what's missing.