From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: What format is the output of `makeinfo --plain-text`? Date: Sun, 14 Jun 2015 18:26:36 +0300 Message-ID: <83bngipaz7.fsf@gnu.org> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1434295635 22239 80.91.229.3 (14 Jun 2015 15:27:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 14 Jun 2015 15:27:15 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jun 14 17:27:07 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Z49oM-0006Gw-Uf for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 14 Jun 2015 17:27:03 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58911 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z49oM-0004Re-7N for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 14 Jun 2015 11:27:02 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:41227) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z49oB-0004R1-TX for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 14 Jun 2015 11:26:52 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z49o8-0006Bq-Nu for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 14 Jun 2015 11:26:51 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout23.012.net.il ([80.179.55.175]:41264) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z49o8-0006Bj-GR for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 14 Jun 2015 11:26:48 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout23.012.net.il by a-mtaout23.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0NPX00A00XAYFG00@a-mtaout23.012.net.il> for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 14 Jun 2015 18:26:46 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout23.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0NPX00A19XKMA990@a-mtaout23.012.net.il> for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 14 Jun 2015 18:26:46 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 X-Received-From: 80.179.55.175 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:104924 Archived-At: > From: Raffaele Ricciardi > Date: Sun, 14 Jun 2015 17:13:41 +0200 > > On 14/06/15 16:16, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > >> From: Raffaele Ricciardi > >> Date: Sun, 14 Jun 2015 15:47:40 +0200 > >> > >> I have generated the plain text version of the Emacs manual with the > >> command: > >> > >> 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. > > > > 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.