Hello, The sed use in texi2dvi, with comment_iftex could be replaced by a direct use of makeinfo, starting with 5.0, released in 16 February 2013 (as stated in the comment).
The following call would be the best, to avoid having a processing as Info done: makeinfo -c TEXINFO_OUTPUT_FORMAT=plaintexinfo --iftex --no-ifinfo Can it be done now or does it need to wait some years? My feeling is that we do not need to wait, as normally users get texi2dvi together with makeinfo/texi2any, such that 10 years is more than enough. -- Pat