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"Alf P. Steinbach" <alf.p.steinbach@gmail.com> writes:
[...]
> I typed `bash` in Windows Cmd, to enter Ubuntu in Windows Subsystem
> for Linux, and followed the given recipe:
>
> sudo apt update
> sudo apt install texlive-latex-extra
> sudo apt install ghostscript
> sudo apt install texinfo
> git clone https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/c-intro-and-ref.git
> cd c-intro-and-ref
> makeinfo --html -v c.texi -o c.html --no-split
>
>
> I just changed "html" to "pdf".
[...]

Thanks for that.

I've found that the provided Makefile doesn't work very well.  One minor
point: `make`  creates files c, c-1,  c-2, and c-3 (no  ".info" suffix);
they're usable with the info command: `info ./c`, but it would be more
consistent to name the files c.info, c.info-1, et al.  And `make clean`
doesn't delete c-3.

Based on your example above, here's what I use to generate info, pdf,
and html documents, once I have a clone of the repo and all required
tools installed:

    makeinfo --pdf  -v c.texi -o c-intro-and-ref.pdf  --no-split
    makeinfo --html -v c.texi -o c-intro-and-ref.html --no-split
    makeinfo --info -v c.texi -o c-intro-and-ref.info --no-split

-- 
Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com
Working, but not speaking, for Philips
void Void(void) { Void(); } /* The recursive call of the void */