11.4. Including Texinfo Documentation

Automake provides a few facilities to make the maintenance of Texinfo documentation within projects much simpler than it used to be. Writing a 'Makefile.am' for Texinfo documentation is extremely straightforward:

## Process this file with automake to produce Makefile.in

MAINTAINERCLEANFILES    = Makefile.in
info_TEXINFOS           = sic.texi

The 'TEXINFOS' primary will not only create rules for generating '.info' files suitable for browsing with the GNU info reader, but also for generating '.dvi' and '.ps' documentation for printing.

You can also create other formats of documentation by adding the appropriate make rules to 'Makefile.am'. Because the more recent Texinfo distributions have begun to support generation ...

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