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Overview

Texi2www converts texinfo to HTML:

texinfo
A documentation system that uses a single source file to produce both on-line documentation and printed output. For details see the Texinfo User's Guide.
HTML
HyperText Markup Language used in World Wide Web documents. Programs like mosaic understand HTML.

Texinfo's on-line documentation viewers (emacs, info, xinfo, etc.) are quite limited when compared to mosaic. Mosaic supports multiple fonts, variable width fonts, embedded images, and hypertext links to anywhere (not just to other texinfo documents). In addition, mosaic keeps a history of nodes visited and can easily go back to previously visited nodes.

Texinfo converts texinfo directly to HTML without going through an intermediate info conversion.

Other texinfo to HTML converters include:

http://wwwcn.cern.ch/dci/texi2html/; and
http://www.ericsson.nl/info2www/info2www.html

Texi2html is very good, but is different from texi2www in several respects, including:

Texi2www is written in perl and may be used and distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License.

Texi2www was written by Tim Singletary (tsingle@sunland.gsfc.nasa.gov) and is available at ftp://sunland.gsfc.nasa.gov/pub/tarfiles/texi2www.tgz.