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3 Init File Basics ¶

Init files are written in Perl, and by convention have extension .init or .pm. Several init files are included in the Texinfo distribution, and can serve as a good model for writing your own. Another example is the Texinfo::Convert::HTML module which implements almost all the Texinfo HTML function described in this manual for the conversion to HTML¹. In Texinfo::Convert::HTML the API may not be followed strictly for performance reasons, in that case there should always be a ‘API info:’ comment which shows what the API conformant code should be. The Licenses conditions of the diverse files used as example should be taken into account when reusing code.

• Init File Namespace
• Managing Customization Variables
• Init File Loading Error Reporting