> Texinfo Note that Texinfo was originally meant to generate output for the info file format (viewed by the GNU info viewer as well as GNU emacs and a few othe

> Texinfo Note that Texinfo was originally meant to generate output for the info file format (viewed by the GNU info viewer as well as GNU emacs and a few other less used viewers) alongside TeX, which is probably where it got its name (tex+info output). The info format is essentially a primitive hypertext format with support for hierarchical nodes and keyword indices packaged in a single file (essentially a primitive text-only form of CHM, though later versions of info also support external image references). The HTML and other output formats were added much later.