You're right, Lionel sent an assignment already. Haven't heard from Marbaise or Bachmann for years now, but haven't tried hard to track anyone down, either, of course.
Anyway, it's an interesting hypothetical world we're entering into. I feel I should at least mention it to rms, but if he doesn't have violent objections (which he might), and you are willing to work on the missing back end(s), and that running tests on actual manuals works out ok, I guess I don't have any objection in principle to the replacement. Oh, and I guess gettext would have be incorporated. Anyway, I'd surely love to get away from the endless malloc/free debugging in makeinfo now. John, I know you expressed concern about speed, but I guess I just find it hard to believe that it would matter that much. And, perhaps texi2html could be sped up; probably not to the point of a compiled language, but it sounds like a heck of a lot less work than an entirely new implementation. Thanks, k
