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Re: What format is the output of `makeinfo --plain-text`?
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Eli Zaretskii |
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Re: What format is the output of `makeinfo --plain-text`? |
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Sun, 14 Jun 2015 18:26:36 +0300 |
> From: Raffaele Ricciardi <rfflrccrd@gmail.com>
> Date: Sun, 14 Jun 2015 17:13:41 +0200
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> On 14/06/15 16:16, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> >> From: Raffaele Ricciardi <rfflrccrd@gmail.com>
> >> Date: Sun, 14 Jun 2015 15:47:40 +0200
> >>
> >> I have generated the plain text version of the Emacs manual with the
> >> command:
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> >> makeinfo --plaintext --no-split emacs.texi --output=emacs.txt
> >>
> >> What format is the generated text file?
> >
> > Plain text, of course. Or maybe I don't understand the question.
> >
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> Hahaha! Right. I meant: it looks like a lightweight markup format, but
> it is neither Markdown, nor any other markup format that I happen to know.
That's right, it's not a markup. It uses some conventions to express
markup, generally taken from the Info files.