Re: Rewriting Plaintext/Info converter in C?

Eli Zaretskii <[email protected]> Wed, 24 Jun 2026 15:41:18 +0300
Newsgroups gmane.comp.tex.texinfo.bugs
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> From: Gavin Smith <[email protected]>
> Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2026 22:00:16 +0100
> 
> I thought I would try to make a start on rewriting the Plaintext converter
> in C.  I thought it should be simple when compared with the HTML converter
> that already exists.  For one thing, there should be no customization API
> for the Plaintext converter.  All the conversion is done with straight
> function calls rather than via hooks that can be overridden.

Plain text is almost the same as Info, with a few minor differences.
So maybe you should just tweak the Info generator a bit?