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Justin Sheehy <justin@iago.org> writes:

> Producing a new texinfo version has been on my todo list 
> forever, and I keep managing to not do it.  When I get to it 
> (soon, I hope), I don't know whether I'll do another one-shot 
> conversion or if I'll switch over the canonical form.
>
> I'm open to fairly sweeping changes.  I don't have any real 
> objections to texinfo.  Here are my real requirements if the 
> format was to change:
>
>   - no major hassles to maintain, preferably in a single file 
>   - easy to convert to nicely-browsable single-file HTML easy to 
>   - convert into minidigest format (the monthly posting)

I think texinfo does all this, plus makes it possible to browse it 
in Emacs.  I'm not sure what the minidigest format is though 
(table of contents?).