> From: Gavin Smith <[email protected]> > Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2026 16:25:35 +0100 > Cc: [email protected] > > On Wed, Jun 24, 2026 at 03:41:18PM +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > > 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? > > The point is that neither of them is written as a C converter - they are > only written in Perl. > > The aim is to switch from texi2any as a Perl program with optional extensions > written in C to a C program with optional extensions written in Perl. > > We can only make this switch once there is enough of the program in C as > we don't want to rely on embedding a Perl interpreter.
What I meant: assuming that there is a C converted to Info (I think it already exists, no?), tweaking it in small ways might be all that's needed to produce plain text. Does this make sense?
