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.
