info-stnd: Printing Nodes
10 Printing Nodes
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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.