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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:
>>
>>       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.