Printing Nodes (Stand-alone GNU Info 6.8)

Next: Miscellaneous Commands, Previous: Manipulating Multiple Windows, Up: Stand-alone GNU Info [Contents][Index]

## 10 Printing Nodes

In general, we recommend that you use TeX to format the document and print sections of it, by running `tex` on the Texinfo source file. However, you may wish to print out the contents of a node as a quick reference document for later use, or if you don’t have TeX installed. Info provides you with a command for doing this.

`M-x print-node` ¶

  Pipe the contents of the current node through the command in the environment variable `INFO_PRINT_COMMAND`. If the variable does not exist, the node is simply piped to `lpr` (on DOS/Windows, the default is to print the node to the local printer device, `PRN`).

  The value of `INFO_PRINT_COMMAND` may begin with the ‘`>`’ character, as in ‘`>/dev/printer`’, in which case Info treats the rest as the name of a file or a device. Instead of piping to a command, Info opens the file, writes the node contents, and closes the file, under the assumption that text written to that file will be printed by the underlying OS.