diff --git a/doc/Makefile b/doc/Makefile
index 9c9b12254e4f591256ad0262de32a4d057100f59..2cb8880a66ba1ecceead43c7e788f5c9f7382818 100644
--- a/doc/Makefile
+++ b/doc/Makefile
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# $Id: Makefile,v 1.9 2003-04-15 05:16:31 geuzaine Exp $
+# $Id: Makefile,v 1.10 2003-04-15 21:49:43 geuzaine Exp $
 #
 # Copyright (C) 1997-2003 C. Geuzaine, J.-F. Remacle
 #
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ all:
 	cd texinfo && ${MAKE} all
 	gtar zcvf gmsh-doc.tgz\
           FAQ CONTRIBUTORS VERSIONS README.win32 \
-          texinfo/gmsh.ps texinfo/gmsh.pdf \
+          texinfo/gmsh.ps texinfo/gmsh.pdf texinfo/gmsh.txt\
           texinfo/*.html \
           texinfo/gmsh-info.tgz gmsh.1 
 
diff --git a/doc/texinfo/Makefile b/doc/texinfo/Makefile
index 970380abf32410b1f3a238bd177aca5b57e6f61b..3413b0952b11c6bc2356f812e15f0cd087c90e32 100644
--- a/doc/texinfo/Makefile
+++ b/doc/texinfo/Makefile
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# $Id: Makefile,v 1.3 2003-03-21 00:52:48 geuzaine Exp $
+# $Id: Makefile,v 1.4 2003-04-15 21:49:43 geuzaine Exp $
 #
 # Copyright (C) 1997-2003 C. Geuzaine, J.-F. Remacle
 #
@@ -46,11 +46,13 @@ install-info:
 infoz: info
 	gtar zcvf gmsh-info.tgz gmsh.info*
 
-all: ps pdf html infoz
+txt:
+	makeinfo --no-headers gmsh.texi > gmsh.txt
+
+all: ps pdf html infoz txt
 
 clean:
-	rm -f *.cp* *.fn* *.ky* *.pg* *.tp* *.vr* *.mv* \
-                         *.log *.toc *.aux *.dvi *.html \
-                         gmsh.ps gmsh.pdf gmsh.info* \
-                         gmsh-info.tgz gmsh-doc.tgz
+	rm -f *.cp* *.fn* *.ky* *.pg* *.tp* *.vr* *.mv*\
+          *.log *.toc *.aux *.dvi *.html *.txt\
+          gmsh.ps gmsh.pdf gmsh.info* gmsh-info.tgz gmsh-doc.tgz
 
diff --git a/doc/texinfo/README b/doc/texinfo/README
index 22a22bac66c5454cec0880652fe5255dd12c7494..32ca72a535fb27bfb94bf6ba9f1eb603d80d1e7d 100644
--- a/doc/texinfo/README
+++ b/doc/texinfo/README
@@ -9,12 +9,13 @@ independent file)
 
 a postscript file             make ps            TeX, Texinfo, dvips
 
-a pdf file                    make pdf           TeX, Texinfo
+a pdf file                    make pdf           pdfTeX, Texinfo
 
 a collection of html          make html          Perl
 files
 
 the interactive info          make info          Texinfo
-(GNU project-like) 
 documentation
 
+a plain text version of       make txt           Texinfo
+the doc