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I have a straight TeX document, and I'd like to produce from it a Texinfo document. Does there exist a tool that does this, or a set of guidelines? TeX and Texinfo seem to be closely related, so it feels like it should be possible, but I can't seem to find anything that does this conversion in particular.

If there is no general tool for that, how much information am I likely to lose in going from TeX to XML to Texinfo?

The document in question is the TeX source of the Mongrel2 manual, for reference - so it's a non-trivial chunk of TeX, but also guaranteed not to be a malformed or perverse chunk of TeX.

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Yeah, if there's no answer in a few days, I'm going to flag this for moderator attention and request a move. Thank you. – Sean M Nov 15 '11 at 20:14
There is this at tug.org. – Peter Grill Nov 16 '11 at 2:01
Usually the sequence is in the reverse direction ;-) – Andrey Vihrov Nov 16 '11 at 6:29

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You might consider pandoc. Pandoc uses "templates" to convert an input format into pandoc's markdown format, which can then be converted into any other format with a supported template. The official templates repository lists both texinfo and latex templates, so that's where I'd start.

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Awesome! Pandoc worked. Pandoc also exposed the fact that this TeX document lacks a bunch of stuff I'm used to finding in Texinfo documents. So I'm getting an education in how to construct those. I hope Zed doesn't make enough changes to the manual that I have to do this again soon. – Sean M Nov 21 '11 at 17:11
Glad to help, and good luck. – jrhorn424 Nov 25 '11 at 2:31

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