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+A standalone program to convert Texinfo source into Info files
+readable with standalone info or M-x info in Emacs.
+makeinfo can also output plain ASCII.
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+The Emacs function M-x texinfo-format-buffer does the same job, but
+makeinfo is faster and gives better error messages.