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John Turner writes:

> Hrvoje Niksic writes:
>> The following syllogism is in favor of Texinfo.
>> 
>> Premise 1: Texinfo can be converted to HTML.
>> Premise 2: HTML can be converted to digest.
>> 
>> Conclusion: Texinfo can be converted to digest.

> If premise 2 is correct, then LaTeX can also be converted to digest,
> since LaTeX can be converted to HTML...

It's not in the general case without postprocessing.  The HTML ->
digest conversion I was using depends strongly on the properties of
Lynx 2.[56] conversion of HTML.  In particular, you need to be able to
line up each row of dashes/Subject: lines unindented and continuation
Subject: lines must be indented.

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