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Texinfo? Please no!



Bob Chassell (bob%gnu.ai.mit.edu@pucc.PRINCETON.EDU) writes:

>Just for the fun of it I converted the first 5 sections of the draft
>mini-lesson into Texinfo format.

>Texinfo is a documentation system that uses a single source file to
>produce both on-line information and a printed manual.  You get a
>table of contents; and I created an index (five entries!).

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>I mention all this because I am urging lojbab to adopt this formatting
>language since it is so useful.

For those of us without access to such tools, a formatting language,
ANY formatting language, makes a file less than useless. Please do
NOT use anything but straight ASCII for anything that might go out for
general distribution.

                                                   Bruce