On Sun, Dec 15, 2024 at 10:38:51PM +0000, Jeremy Bryant wrote: > Hi Texinfo developers, > Most Texinfo manuals are presumably written directly in Texinfo, whilst > some are converted into it. > Is there a known index of such manuals?
There is no comprehensive list. A few years ago (possibly 2021) I crawled Savannah (GNU's software hosting website) for Texinfo manuals. I wish I had recorded what I did in a more organized way, as I ripped and processed the files in a somewhat piecemeal and ad hoc fashion. It seems that I downloaded the contents of hundreds of separate git repos from Savannah (I have two separate lists, which is one point of confusion, so not sure if I downloaded from 376 or 1017 repos. It's possible the larger number includes Savannah projects without git repos.) I reduced this to a list of 215 manuals. Here's the list: 3dldf gluster mdk 8sync gmoria mediatex a2ps gnuastro memo akfavatar gnubik mempool alive gnugo mes anubis gnuit mit-scheme arc gnulib mixp archiver gnumach mpria aris gnupod muesli auctex gnu-pw-mgr nano autobuild gnushogi netclip autoconf gnu-social-mode netutils autoconf-archive gperf nomad autogen grep nyacc automake grip oath-toolkit barcode groff orgguide-es bash gsasl parted bbdb gsl paxutils bino gss pdf bison gtypist pem bsltl guile pgqa ccd2cue guile pnet cconf guile-avahi poke ccrtp guile-baux pretest cflow guile-cairo pspp cim guile-cv pyconfigure classpath guile-debbugs qpimd cockroach guile-git quagga complexity guile-lib radius coreutils guile-lkr ratpoison cpio guile-ncurses rawtools datamash guile-opengl rcs dbsh guile-pg readline dejagnu guile-reader rec-mode dico guile-rpc recutils diffutils guile-sdl riece direvent guix rottlog dragora-handbook guix-cuirass rpge dtrt-indent gwl rtliber dvipng g-wrap rush easejs gzip searduino ee halevt sed elisp-es haploid sed-history emacs hello serveez emacs hoxsl sharutils emacs-guix hurd shepherd emacs-shroud hyperbole shishi emacsy identica-mode simulavr emms idutils skribilo epsilon indent smalltalk erc inetutils sqltutor fc2d inklingreader src-highlite femlisp jwhois ssw ff3d kanban stow findutils libcdio stump foliot libchop tar freeipmi libidn texinfo freetalk libidn2 thales fussy libjit time gama libredwg tinycc gash libtmcg toque gawk libtool treecc gcal libunistring trueprint gccjit-guile licenseutils vc-dwim gdbm lightning vrtater geiser linterna-magica w3 gengen liquidwar web gengetopt l-lang wget gforth m4 ww-tedit g-golf mailutils www-ja ghostscript make xforms glean mcron Again, it's possible some of these aren't Texinfo manuals, refer to manuals with a different name, or cover more than one manual. As Emacs had many Texinfo manuals included, I listed those separately: auth.texi eudc.texi reftex.texi autotype.texi eww.texi remember.texi bovine.texi flymake.texi sasl.texi calc.texi forms.texi sc.texi cc-mode.texi gnus-coding.texi semantic.texi cl.texi gnus-faq.texi sem-user.texi dbus.texi gnus.texi ses.texi dired-x.texi gpl.texi sieve.texi doclicense.texi htmlfontify.texi smtpmail.texi ebrowse.texi idlwave.texi speedbar.texi ede.texi ido.texi srecode.texi ediff.texi info.texi todo-mode.texi edt.texi mairix-el.texi tramp.texi efaq.texi message.texi trampver.texi efaq-w32.texi mh-e.texi url.texi eieio.texi newsticker.texi vhdl-mode.texi emacs-gnutls.texi nxml-mode.texi viper.texi emacs-mime.texi octave-mode.texi vip.texi epa.texi org.texi widget.texi erc.texi pcl-cvs.texi wisent.texi ert.texi pgg.texi woman.texi eshell.texi rcirc.texi (65 .texi files) So altogether I had sources for about 270 manuals downloaded. There are also Texinfo manuals from projects that are not hosted on Savannah, which includes some quite large and important projects: glibc (https://sourceware.org/glibc/manual/) gcc (https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/) gdb (https://www.sourceware.org/gdb/documentation/) Lilypond (http://lilypond.org/manuals.html) R (https://cran.r-project.org/) ffmpeg (https://ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg.html) TeX Live (https://www.tug.org/texlive/doc.html) Maxima (https://maxima.sourceforge.io/documentation.html) There are very probably other important and significant projects that I have missed by accident. Not all Texinfo manuals will be online in HTML format and so wouldn't be listed in htmlxref.cnf. There will also be manuals that are online in HTML but have never been added because nobody reported them to be added.
