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Copying and distribution of this file, with or without modification, are permitted in any medium without royalty provided the copyright notice and this notice are preserved. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 7.0.3 (26 March 2023) This is a bug-fix release with minimal changes. * texi2any . fix performance regression when Perl binary extension (XS) modules are not being used (e.g. with TEXINFO_XS=omit) * info . further fix of recoding of UTF-8 files to ASCII to avoid text disappearing from nodes . avoid possible freeze at start of a file with `-v nodeline=pointers' 7.0.2 (22 January 2023) This is a bug-fix release with minimal changes. * texi2any . do not distribute architecture-dependent files . build fixed on OpenIndiana 11 * info . further fix of recoding of UTF-8 files to ASCII . fix check for presence of man pages on Solaris * install-info . fix build by avoiding function name clash on some platforms . compiler warning re strncat silenced 7.0.1 (30 November 2022) This is a bug-fix release with minimal changes. * texi2any . avoid crashes on empty @image argument and other potential crashes (with "Can't use an undefined value as an ARRAY reference" message) . avoid hang on @ref command inside section command * info . fix recoding of UTF-8 files to ASCII when run in C locale * js . index search fixed for new HTML output . some obsolete files removed from distribution 7.0 (7 November 2022) * texi2any . LaTeX added as an output format, selected with --latex . EPUB 3 added as an output format, selected with --epub3 . reform throughout the code in general . thorough review of character encoding issues . new customization variables involved with character encoding: INPUT_FILE_NAME_ENCODING, OUTPUT_FILE_NAME_ENCODING, DOC_ENCODING_FOR_INPUT_FILE_NAME, DOC_ENCODING_FOR_OUTPUT_FILE_NAME, MESSAGE_ENCODING and COMMAND_LINE_ENCODING . warn if full-text commands (@ref, @footnote, @anchor) appear in @w . new variable NO_TOP_NODE_OUTPUT . IGNORE_BEFORE_SETFILENAME variable removed. former effect is now always on. . HTML output: . use manual_name_html as output directory for split HTML instead of manual_name or manual_name.html . default DOCTYPE declaration changed to plain HTML5 style rather than HTML4 DTD reference . output only the CSS rules that are needed in an output file . remove CSS_LINES variable and add SHOW_BUILTIN_CSS_RULES (custom CSS can still be output using EXTRA_HEAD) . use tag for the output of @t and @verb instead of . use for @acronym instead of . link to table of contents from short table of contents only if a table of contents is actually output . prefix classes from @example arguments with `user-' . percent encode URL in @url/@uref, @email, @image and external manual file . new USE_XML_SYNTAX, HTML_ROOT_ELEMENT_ATTRIBUTES and NO_CUSTOM_HTML_ATTRIBUTE variables can be used to output valid XHTML . systematic addition of classes attribute in HTML elements based on the Texinfo @-command names. renaming of class attributes to avoid confusion with @-commands formatting and describe the role in the document rather than the formatting style. . COPIABLE_ANCHORS renamed to COPIABLE_LINKS . do not add a title by default; SHOW_TITLE or NO_TOP_NODE_OUTPUT has to be set . USE_TITLEPAGE_FOR_TITLE is now true by default . L2H variable removed, replaced by HTML_MATH set to `l2h' . rename OVERVIEW_LINK_TO_TOC to SHORT_TOC_LINK_TO_TOC . rename BEFORE_OVERVIEW to BEFORE_SHORT_TOC_LINE . rename AFTER_OVERVIEW to AFTER_SHORT_TOC_LINES . remove PRE_ABOUT, AFTER_ABOUT, and add PROGRAM_NAME_IN_ABOUT . remove KEEP_TOP_EXTERNAL_REF . new variables IGNORE_REF_TO_TOP_NODE_UP, CONVERT_TO_LATEX_IN_MATH, HTMLXREF_MODE and HTMLXREF_FILE . DocBook output: . do not output Top node or text before the first @node or sectioning @-command. NO_TOP_NODE_OUTPUT can be set to false to output Top node for now. . replace @definfocenlose defined @-commands by the argument as-is to be more consistent with printed output . HTML/DocBook output: . USE_NUMERIC_ENTITY changed to mean to use numeric entities instead of named entities. former effect is now always on. . ENABLE_ENCODING_USE_ENTITY variable removed. former effect is now always off. . Info output . quote problematic node names (with :, comma...) by default . new customization variable ASCII_PUNCTUATION to use plain ASCII characters for quotation marks and a few other symbols * texinfo.tex . `@microtype on' uses microtypography in formatting for pdfTeX and LuaTeX . do not ignore @part page immediately following Top node . do `@set txicodevaristt' to get slanted typewriter for @var in code, `@clear txicodevaristt' to use slanted, variable-width roman font for @var everywhere. flag is @set by default, but we may turn this off in the future. . new file doc/texinfo-zh.tex for Texinfo documents in Chinese. new support file doc/txi-zh.tex for Chinese. doc/short-sample-zh.texi is a sample document. * info . better support for index entries containing parentheses . better support for getting bold text etc. when displaying manpages . bug fixed where the first index entry in a file could be ignored . M-C-f closes as well as opens footnotes window . do not crash if run in Brazilian Portuguese locale * Language . @deftype* commands use typewriter font in argument list . new commands @latex, @iflatex, @ifnotlatex for new LaTeX output format . do `@set txidefnamenospace' to omit space after a definition name * Other . build fixed for glibc 2.34 6.8 (3 July 2021) * Language . new command @displaymath for formatting of mathematical notation . @example takes an argument to specify the language . mark these commands as deprecated, not to be used: @centerchap, @definfoenclose, @refill, @inforef. . new paper size @bsixpaper * texi2any . should be faster as Perl XS parser is enabled by default . SHOW_MENU customization variable replaced by FORMAT_MENU. FORMAT_MENU set to 'menu' is the same as SHOW_MENU set to 1, and FORMAT_MENU set to 'nomenu' is the same as SHOW_MENU set to 0. . only check menu structure if CHECK_NORMAL_MENU_STRUCTURE variable is set . changes to HTML output: . MathJax support for display of math. new variables HTML_MATH, MATHJAX_SCRIPT and MATHJAX_SOURCE. . new variables JS_WEBLABELS and JS_WEBLABELS_FILE to support JavaScript License Web Labels . by default, use sectional tables of contents instead of menus . use section names in links by default (configure with xrefautomaticsectiontitle customization variable) . CONTENTS_OUTPUT_LOCATION sets location of table of contents . document sections wrapped in
elements . new variable USE_NODE_DIRECTIONS to use node or section structure for node directions . copiable anchor links for definitions with COPIABLE_ANCHORS variable . experimental JavaScript browsing interface enabled with INFO_JS_DIR . don't add an extra period before file extension given as an argument to @image if image file is not found * info . support compressed dir files * texi2dvi . stop on first error in input file * texinfo.tex . put logical page numbers into PDF's ('page labels') . put chapter numbers in the PDF outline . new Finnish translation * Distribution . autoconf 2.71, automake 1.16.3, gettext 0.21 6.7 (23 September 2019) * Language: . support of index subentries and sub-subentries with @subentry . new commands @seeentry and @seealso in index entries . no need to wrap Top node in @ifnottex - omitted automatically when processed with TeX . UTF-8 is the default input encoding * texi2any . for HTML output, mark index nodes in menus and tables of contents with the 'rel' attribute of the 'a' tag. . TOP_NODE_UP is now only used in HTML if TOP_NODE_UP_URL is set. Also TOP_NODE_UP should now be formatted in the output format. In HTML TOP_NODE_UP should be suitable for inclusion in HTML element attributes, so for instance should not contain elements. . support of noderename.cnf files has been removed . INPUT_PERL_ENCODING, INPUT_ENCODING_NAME, NODE_FILE_EXTENSION, NODE_FILENAMES, SHORTEXTN and TOP_NODE_FILE removed as customization variables. . TOP_NODE_FILE_TARGET now contains the extension. . error messages translated when the XS parser module is in use * texi2dvi . unconditionally run in --batch mode, i.e. without stopping if there is a TeX error . keep on going after a TeX error if the index files changed . with --tidy (or --build-dir), avoid reading index files from previous runs where --tidy was not used * info . for a tree search (with M-/), '}' and '{' work as well as 'M-}' and 'M-{' to go through the results * Distribution: . Several obsolete portability checks removed . gettext 0.20.1, automake 1.16.1 6.6 (16 February 2019) * Language: . new commands @&, @ampchar{} . @cropmarks command removed . @ctrl is no longer recognised (it was a way to insert literal control characters in Info files, but deprecated since the time of Texinfo version 2) . \usebracesinindexestrue is no longer recommended for using braces in index entries, and has been a no-op for some time * texi2any . extension modules fixed to work with the "thread-safe locales" of Perl 5.28 and newer . some code changed to stop warnings being given by newer versions of Perl . for HTML output, use `id' to define link targets instead of the `name' attribute on . A native-code implementation of the Texinfo parser has been included on an experimental basis, which makes texi2any a lot faster. Set the `TEXINFO_XS_PARSER' environment variable to 1 to use. . changes to HTML output: . omit colon after node name in menus by default (use `MENU_ENTRY_COLON' to add it back) . no special CSS for commands like @smallexample . new customization variable `SECTION_NAME_IN_TITLE' to use the section name as the document . use section names instead of node names in generated menus . pass on flags set with -D to TeX . useless static libraries are not installed . the newline after an @insertcopying is not output . warning given for @multitable prototypes not in braces . @indent and @noindent are not allowed inside the arguments to commands where they are not meaningful . @quote-arg and @allow-recursion are not recognised (these two used to be recognised by makeinfo in macro definitions but were never implemented in texinfo.tex) . `FIX_TEXINFO' removed as a customization variable . do not recognise or warn about obsolete customization variables * info . debugging output with -x is not diverted to a separate infodebug file * Development: . switch from Subversion to git - https://savannah.gnu.org/git/?group=texinfo . automake 1.16 6.5 (12 September 2017) * info: . some bugs fixed: . a bug where a segfault could happen in the regex search, for example when the user entered a single \ as the search string . another bug which could make nodes inaccessible in long "split" info files . a bug where it was not possible to follow a cross-reference that was split across more than one line has been fixed . do not fall back to a man page if following a cross-reference in an info file failed . if looking for a file failed, do not convert the name of a file to lower-case and look for it again * texinfo.tex . some faulty definitions for Unicode characters have been changed or removed . fix indentation in table of contents for entries that are split across multiple lines * texi2dvi . a bug that broke the processing of LaTeX files that did not use BibTeX has been fixed * texi2any . output the encoding declaration of a HTML file earlier so it will always occur within first 1024 bytes of file . `INLINE_INSERTCOPYING' removed as a customization variable 6.4 (23 June 2017) * texi2any: . for HTML output, place section names before the manual in page titles, instead of after them, so it is easier to distinguish pages if titles are truncated . starting points for ordered lists beginning with 0 or a letter of the alphabet are output as attributes on the <ol> tag, as was case for Texinfo 4.13 and earlier . a bit faster . some discrepancies in paragraph formatting between Perl extension modules and interpreted Perl modules have been fixed . `MACRO_BODY_IGNORES_LEADING_SPACE' customization variable removed, and `indent_menu_descriptions' is no longer a possible value for `TREE_TRANSFORMATIONS' (as these features did not work as documented) * info: . the `up-line' and `down-line' commands now are like the other scrolling commands and are no longer confined to a single node (depending on the value of `scroll-behaviour') . supplying the --all option with --index-search displays a list of matching index entries . the style variables like `link-style' can now be set while info is running . display bug fixed where color could be turned off prematurely . several other bugs fixed . better portability in test suite . do not fall back to showing the dir node if a manual isn't found . Do not attempt any kind of conversion of CR LF line endings, except on MS-DOS/Windows, when it is done unconditionally. (This replaces a more complicated approach, where this conversion would take place if there was a problem finding a node in a file.) The main effect of this change is that Info files with CR LF line endings, which would have been produced on MS-DOS/Windows with old versions of makeinfo, are only supported on such operating systems. . a few of the key bindings under --vi-keys have been changed for consistency or to match the documentation * texinfo.tex . a DVI file with a single empty page can be output again, which restores the behavior from Texinfo 6.0 and earlier * Distribution . autoconf 2.69, automake 1.15, gettext 0.19.8 6.3 (10 September 2016) * Language: . The commands `@setcontentsaftertitlepage' and `@setshortcontentsaftertitlepage' have been removed. . @-commands are no longer supported within `@errormsg'. * texinfo.tex: . For a couple of characters (opening and closing braces), use glyphs from the standard TeX math fonts instead of using EC fonts which are less likely to be installed. . Use of user-defined macros in the text of an index entry is more reliable when the text contains Texinfo @-commands. . @synindex and @syncodeindex have been fixed (broken in the last release). . Support added for native UTF-8 support with XeTeX and LuaTeX. . Support of PDF output with XeTeX improved. . You can use a new file doc/texinfo-ja.tex for Texinfo documents in Japanese. doc/short-sample-ja.tex is a sample document. New support file doc/txi-ja.tex for Japanese. * texi2any: . Fix handling of compiler options when building Perl extension modules. * texi2dvi: . Can now process files whose absolute paths contain space characters, as long a relative path to the file is given. Better support of files with unusual characters in their names. . No longer exits prematurely in some circumstances (due to the script running under "set -e"). . Bug fixed which made the `--command' and `--tidy' options incompatible. * info: . Handling of "invalid" value in infokey file fixed. 6.2 (withdrawn) 6.1 (06 February 2016) * Language: . You can now omit the @menu from nodes with other nodes below them in the document structure. If you use "@validatemenus off" near the start of a Texinfo file, makeinfo will, where needed, create a menu for nodes lacking one given explicitly. . An @setfilename line is no longer required at the start of a Texinfo file. (Be aware, though, that some other tools may require it, for example Automake.) . For processing with TeX, a comma is automatically provided following a cross-reference command (such as @xref) when needed to separate the page number from following text, so you don't need to add one yourself. See the `Parts of a Cross Reference' node in the manual for details. Behavior when followed by punctuation, as always recommended previously, is unchanged. * texi2any: . Some Perl modules have been rewritten in C to increase speed. If Perl extensions can be created, they are used by default; otherwise the pure Perl implementations are still used. Disable at build time with "configure --disable-perl-xs". The environment variable TEXINFO_XS controls how they are used by texi2any. . Quotation marks are left out for node names and index entries in Info output where they would have been produced by commands such as @file or @option. . New customization variable INFO_SPECIAL_CHARS_QUOTE to allow use of a quoting mechanism for problematic constructs in Info output, for example node names containing colons or commas. . Commands like @heading are affected by @lowersections and @raisesections again, as was the case before Texinfo 5.0. * texinfo.tex: . You may explicitly specify a sort key for an index entry by preceding the text of the entry with the @sortas commmand with the sort key desired as a braced argument. Additionally, you may choose to ignore all occurences of the characters \, @, <, and - using new flags you can specify with @set: `txiindexbackslashignore', `txiindexatsignignore', `txiindexlessthanignore', and `txiindexhyphenignore' respectively. . Changes to macro handling to more closely match makeinfo. Ends of lines are preserved in an argument to a macro taking a single argument. . By default, suppress heading line on a page with a chapter on it, to avoid having the chapter title repeated. . Use a larger font for arguments in a @deffn line and similar. . The default indices (cp, ky and so on) now don't get a file opened for them unless they are actually used. This reduces the number of files that a run of TeX produces, and also allows for a greater number of user-defined indices, because you will not bump into TeX's limit of 16 open files at once so soon. . For initials in indices that are non-alphanumeric characters (for example, backslash, or braces), avoid use of a typewriter font. This gives a more consistent appearance. . Have a stronger preference for breaking a column in an index before a letter heading. . Formatting improvements in tables of contents and indices. Entries can extend slightly into the margin instead of being broken across two lines, and text is split more evenly across lines. Reduce chance of an orphaned index entry appearing at the top of a column. . Support character encodings beyond ASCII for XeTeX and LuaTeX by reading file input byte-by-byte. * texi2dvi: . Support for determining the output files using the `-recorder' option to TeX, to help to support more TeX engines. * info: . New user variables `link-style', `active-link-style', and `match-style' enable customization of how cross-references and search matches are highlighted. . By default only the node pointers are displayed at the top of a node. Customize this with the `nodeline' variable. . New command M-x tree-search to search all subnodes of a node. . Now tries to find referenced manuals in the same directory as the current file first, before looking in search path. Customize this with new variable `follow-strategy'. . The `mouse' variable is now off by default, in order not to interfere with the selection of text in a terminal emulator window. . `q' closes a window instead of quitting altogether if there's more than one, for example if a help window is open. . Several bug fixes, including: . one causing the wrong position in a node to be shown when following an "anchor" cross-reference . one causing a test failure in the t/c-u-m-x-scroll-forward.sh test on some platforms . Internal changes to reduce memory use and increase speed of searches, relative to last release . The meaning of the `key-time' variable has changed when its value is 0. This value meant to wait forever in the last release, but now it means that the next byte must be available immediately. * Documentation: . The `info.info' file (and `info.texi' source) is no longer distributed with Texinfo. Now this manual is only in Emacs. * Distribution: . automake-1.15, gettext-0.19.6. 6.0 (26 June 2015) * Language: . new commands @sub and @sup, for textual subscripts and superscripts. . new command @U to insert a Unicode character by code point. * texinfo.tex: . @url/@uref output in PDF now the same as in DVI, showing the url even if the second argument is given, not just as a link target. TeX option \urefurlonlylinktrue gives previous behavior, of invisible urls. PDF-only \linkcolor and \urlcolor specify colors (default black). * texi2any: . customization variable TOP_NODE_UP_URL now replaces all (dir) references; recommended setting for GNU packages is /manual/. . new customization variable INDEX_SPECIAL_CHARS_WARNING to complain when index entries contain a colon. . Docbook output no longer uses <lineannotation> for @r. . -D'var val' on the command line works as intended again. . --plaintext output can be split. . a bit faster. * info: . invoking as `info foo bar' looks for bar as an index entry in manual foo, if not found as a top-level menu item. . invoking info with an absolute or explicitly relative file name (./foo.info, /tmp/foo.info, etc.) just visits that file. . separate `infokey' program has been removed - the .infokey file is now read directly by Info. . new option --init-file allows overriding ~/.infokey. . new variable `highlight-searches' allows highlighting results from a search . support for mouse scrollwheel, controlled by `mouse' variable. . new variable `key_time' to control how long to wait for byte sequences sent by special keys. . new variable `hide-note-references' alters appearance of displayed nodes . new variable `infopath-no-defaults' allows omitting the compile-time Info directory from the Info search path. . support input of multibyte characters for searches in a UTF-8 locale. . if reading an Info file that is known to be in a different character encoding to that of the user's environment, convert its contents when displayed and substitute missing characters . new command M-x info-version. . the M-x kill-node command has been removed. . test suite at build time. * texindex: . completely new implementation as a literate program using Texinfo and (portable) awk (called TexiWeb Jr.), thanks to Arnold Robbins. (Requires gawk 4.0+ if .twjr source is modified.) . the -o (--output) is not supported, unless we hear of someone using it. . duplicated sort keys with different display texts result in one merged index entry, using the first display text. . better sorting and parsing in unusual cases; most notably, { and } characters can appear as initials. * install-info: . handle compressed input file names containing spaces. . exit successfully if --remove is given and the dir file does not exist. . new option --defsection, to be used instead of "Miscellaneous" when a section is not present in the Info file. * texi2dvi: . look for the environment variable THUMBPDF_CMD instead of THUMBPDF, since thumbpdf itself has used THUMBPDF for options since 2000. . remove --recode and --recode-from options, since they haven't worked as intended for years, so evidently no one needs them. * Distribution: . new translation ca (catalan). . automake-1.15, gettext-0.19.4. 5.2 (26 September 2013) * Language: . new commands @inlinefmtifelse, @inlineifset, @inlineifclear, for more brace-delimited alternatives to the conditional environments. * texi2any: . warns about node names, menu items, and cross-references (but not index entries) containing problematic characters; can be disabled with -c INFO_SPECIAL_CHARS_WARNING=0. * info: . new option -x (--debug) for debugging output; -x -1 to get everything. . new option -v (--variable) assigns a value to an Info variable, with the usual syntax, -v VARIABLE=VALUE. . new option -a (--all) instructs Info to display all documents matching the command line arguments, not just the first. In conjunction with the -w option, it shows full names of all Info files matching the command line arguments; with -o, it outputs all matching files. . new variable search-skip-screen controls the starting position for repeated search commands ({ and }). When set to On, repeated searches skip the lines displayed on the screen, i.e., forward searches (}) start at the beginning of the next page, and backward searches ({) start at the end of the previous page. . new command display-file-info (bound to = by default, C-g in vi mode) shows full file name of the node being displayed and position in it. * texi2dvi: . support for biblatex+biber. * Distribution: automake-1.14, gettext-0.18.3.1. 5.1 (12 March 2013) * texi2any: . irregular sectioning trees (see 5.0 news item) produce a warning rather than an error. . @set in the middle of the line no longer produces a warning. * info: . lzip (.lz) compression supported. * install-info: . lzip (.lz) compression supported. * Development: switch from CVS to Subversion. https://savannah.gnu.org/svn/?group=texinfo 5.0 (16 February 2013) * Language: . Texinfo commands are supported in node names. . #line directives are recognized. . @-commands are now recognized in raw format blocks. Therefore, for example, lone @, { and } characters in @tex, @html and similar environments must be converted to the normal @@, @{, and @} commands. . new commands @inlinefmt and @inlineraw for brace-delimited conditionals. . new conditionals @ifcommanddefined and @ifcommandnotdefined to test if a Texinfo command is available. . new command @part for a group of chapters. . new environments @raggedright, @smallquotation, @indentedblock, and @smallindentedblock. . new commands @codequoteundirected and @codequotebacktick, for a better interface than "@set txicodequoteundirected" and "@set txicodequotebacktick"; now respected by @kbd. . new command @xrefautomaticsectiontitle to allow using section titles in cross references by default, instead of node names. . new commands for Texinfo special characters: @atchar{} @lbracechar{} @rbracechar{} @backslashchar{} @hashchar{}. . new commands @deftypefnnewline to print return types on their own lines. . new command @headitemfont for the sake of template rows. . new command @urefbreakstyle to control breaking of @url/@uref in TeX. . new diacritic command @ogonek. . new commands for Icelandic letters eth and thorn: @DH{} @dh{} @TH{} @th{}. . new command @errormsg to report an error. . five-argument xrefs can refer to a whole manual, by omitting the section name and either omitting the node name or using "Top". . DEL (0x7f = 0177 = 127) is a true comment character (catcode 14 in TeX). * texi2any is the new generic converter for Texinfo that can produce all supported output formats, both those from texi2dvi (PDF/DVI) and from makeinfo (Info/HTML/etc.). texi2any and makeinfo are now different names for the same program; there are no differences in behavior based on the program name. The new implementation is in Perl, requiring Perl 5.7.3 (released in March 2002) and its standard Encode module. The Perl texi2any/makeinfo both replaces and is intended to be (for all practical purposes) upward-compatible with the C makeinfo. It has many new features not in the C makeinfo. For example, cross-manual references are now fully supported, and allows for extensive customization of the HTML output. See the `Generic Translator texi2any' chapter in the manual (among other places) for more about this reimplementation. The new program is, unfortunately, noticeably slower at present than the C program was. We hope all the many improvements make the new version worthwhile for users nevertheless. * Intentional incompatibilities with the previous implementation of makeinfo, through version 4.13: . The old implementation accepted a lone block of text inside @itemize, @enumerate, etc., without any @item. This is semantically inconsistent, leading to problems with some backends, and thus now produces a warning. . The old implementation accepted ``irregular'' sectioning trees. Now, when @node pointers are implicitly determined, the consistency of @menu and the sectioning tree is checked. (If node pointers are explicitly specified in the document, the tree can still be irregular.) . The old implementation always added blank lines between function definitions if they weren't already there. Now blank lines are not added. (Both old and new implementations preserve blank lines that are present.) . The old implementation processed macros in place, formatting the replacement text with the output. Now the replacement text is textually substituted as Texinfo source. A consequence of the old behavior is that ends of lines from expansion of an @macro definition did not end an @-command line-delimited argument (@chapter, @center, etc.). Now they do. (A detailed example is in the manual, node Macro Details.) * pod2texi is a new (Perl) program that uses the capabilities of texi2any to translate Perl pod documentation to Texinfo. * texinfo.tex: . urls (given to @uref and @url) are broken by default at special characters; behavior controllable with @urefbreakstyle. . support some per-language hyphenation, when the underlying TeX engine does (for instance, etex/pdfetex from TeX Live 2008 or later). Words with accented letters are still not handled properly. . @title, text will be broken if needed, and @* can be used to override. . new Icelandic translation: txi-is.tex. . new Hungarian translation: txi-hu.tex. . official updates between full package releases available at http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/texinfo/texinfo.tex. * texi2dvi: . new option --max-iterations. . official updates between full package releases available at http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/texinfo/texi2dvi. * info: . INFOPATH is determined from PATH by default, or if an element "PATH" is specified. . New command Info-virtual-index, bound to I by default, following Emacs. . Info keywords not found by searches. . A lower limit on the length of search patterns, default 1, specified by the variable min-search-length. . Use ASCII versions of images, if supplied by the document. . xz compression supported. * install-info: . xz compression supported. * Documentation: . new appendix with a technical description of the Info file format. . information on the customizations of the HTML output now possible. * Distribution: . new file htmlxref.cnf is installed to support cross-manual references; official updates between full package releases available at http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/texinfo/htmlxref.cnf. . language support for no removed/renamed to nb, per Norwegian translators. . new translations: id it, and document translations: eo pl. . texinfo.cat file removed since it is (to our knowledge) unused. . documentation license now GFDLv1.3 or later. . autoconf 2.69, automake 1.13.1, gettext 0.18.2. 4.13 (18 September 2008) * A reference card for Texinfo is now available, in doc/refcard. For convenience, preformatted PDF's for letter-size and A4 paper are included. * makeinfo: . new option --internal-links for HTML output, to write a tsv file mapping indexed/toc terms to links, for easy reference from external documents. . - as an input file name reads standard input. * info: . support for multibyte encodings such as UTF-8. . new option --show-malformed-multibytes, to display malformed multibyte sequences. . new environment variable INFO_MAN_COMMAND sets the name of man executable (use it if you a need to override PATH settings). * install-info: . bug fix: support names with embedded periods (e.g., config.status) again. * Distribution: . autoconf 2.63. 4.12 (20 April 2008) * Language: . new commands @clicksequence, @click, and @clickstyle for documenting GUI sequences, and @arrow for the default glyph used. . new commands @geq{} and @leq{} for the normal >= and <= relations. * install-info: . lzma compression supported. . Much work towards compatibility with Debian's independent implementation. Changes in behavior: - new entries are formatted to start at column 34 by default. - existing entries are replaced by default. - new sections are alphabetized among existing sections. - if an entry being removed is the last one in a section, the section is also removed. . Also many new options: --section REGEX TITLE. --no-indent: disable formatting of new entries. --menuentry, --name: specify left-hand side of an entry. --dry-run: alias for --test. --regex REGEX: renamed from --section regex, adds to all sections matching REGEX by default. --add-once: add only to first specified or matching section. --align COL: start description at column COL. --calign COL: start continuation lines in description at COL. --max-width COL: wrap the description at COL. . New section in the Texinfo manual describing all this. * info: Our goal with these changes to the default interface is to make Info documents more easily and quickly readable, especially by non-experts. . the PageUp and PageDown keys move through the whole document by default, instead of just the current node. . the h command shows the basic help, and H starts the Info tutorial. . the newly-bound x command deletes the current window, e.g., within help. . the scroll-step variable is set to 1 by default, for smooth scrolling. . the cursor-movement-scrolls-p variable is set to 1 by default, so link searches look through the whole document. . regular expression searches are supported, and are the default for both regular and incremental searches. . the new R command toggles between regexp and literal-string searches. . the new variable scroll-last-node controls scrolling at the end of the last node; by default, it now simply reports there are no more nodes. To restore the old behavior, set scroll-last-node=Scroll. . the precise line number specified in index entries is used if available. . --usage=info shows usage for standalone Info. . lzma compression supported. * Distribution: . language support for no removed/renamed to nb, per Norwegian translators. . new translation: es. . bug fixes in make check (and elsewhere). . gettext 0.17, automake 1.10.1, autoconf 2.62. 4.11 (9 September 2007) * Language: . @documentlanguage now supports an optional country code specification after the language code, a la gettext. . new command @allowcodebreaks controls breaks at _ and - within @code. . new command @frenchspacing controls spacing after sentences. . new command @fonttextsize allows changing body text font size to 10pt. . new command @textdegree{} produces the normal degrees symbol. . new command @thischapternum can be used in TeX headers/footers. . new commands for quotes: @quotedblleft @quotedblright @quoteleft @quoteright @quotedblbase @quotesinglbase @guillemetleft @guillemetright @guilsinglleft @guilsinglright. . new option @set txicodequoteundirected produces an undirected quote in code and example output, instead of the regular right quote. . new option @set txicodequotebacktick produces a grave accent in code and example output, instead of the regular left quote. * makeinfo: . The @documentlanguage locale is used to translate various document strings. . --enable-encoding is now the default, meaning Info and plain text output use 8-bit characters given a supported @documentencoding. . new option --css-ref=URL for creating a stylesheet <link> in HTML output. . new option --transliterate-file-names to use a reduction-to-ASCII algorithm for split HTML file names, useful for non-Latin-based languages. . @enddots{} outputs three dots instead of four, for consistency with texinfo.tex. . the Local Variables coding: setting written by --enable-encoding now comes at the very end, after the tags table, so that Emacs can find it in more cases. . @allow-recursion (never documented) is deprecated and produces a warning. . @quote-args (never documented) is now the default behavior. . centering and such take account of character widths. . the --reference-limit option is now a no-op. . improvements to XML and Docbook output and the DTD. * texinfo.tex: . @thissection can now be used in custom headings, and @thischapter works reliably even without @set chapternewpage. Custom headings have additional flexibility as well. * texi2dvi: . pdftexi2dvi is a new wrapper to `texi2dvi --pdf', equal to texi2pdf, for the sake of AUC-TeX which prepends `pdf' to the compilation command when requested to produce PDF. * info: . look for info files in the current directory first, by default. . when calling man, use -a if no explicit section is found. . avoid showing the top(1) man page for nonexistent info files. * install-info: . new options --section-regex, --remove-exactly, --debug, --test. * Distribution: . autoconf 2.60, automake 1.10, gettext 0.16.1. . gettext support now [external]. . new translations: hu (Hungarian), rw (Kinyarwandan), vi (Vietnamese). . most common sources imported from gnulib. 4.10 (omitted) 4.9 (29 June 2007) * GPLv3. * texi2dvi: . new mode --build=tidy which supports compilation in a separate directory, where intermediate files are preserved. . new option --build-dir, to specify where the tidy build will take place, either locally or globally. This allows avoiding the clutter while preserving auxiliary files. . new support for AUC-TeX: texi2dvi (weakly) supports arguments a la TeX such as `\nonstopmode\input{file.tex}'. . new options --ps and --dvipdf, useful especially for pstricks documents. . new option --src-specials, passed to TeX. * texinfo.tex: . Latin1, Latin2, Latin9, and UTF-8 are supported -- only as well as the Computer Modern fonts can manage, which means primarily English and western European languages, to a limited extent. . png and jpg images supported in pdf output. . new Russian, Serbian, and Ukrainian translations for texinfo.tex: txi-ru.tex, txi-sr.tex, txi-uk.tex. . section names with \ characters work properly in pdf outlines. . have .toc files use @ as the escape character, instead of \. 4.8 (31 December 2004) * Language: . new command @euro for the Euro currency symbol, and @documentencoding has some support for ISO-8859-15. . new command @abbr for general abbreviations. . new command @slanted to typeset text in a slanted font, and @sansserif to typeset in a sans serif font. * makeinfo: . An empty first argument to cross-reference commands, such as @xref, causes an error. This change was made in 4.1, but not mentioned in NEWS. . HTML output: - <a name="..."> constructs are added for the old-style conversion of node names to HTML names, so that external references to them can continue to work. - "g_t" prefixed to targets for node names beginning with a nonletter, for XHTML compatibility. . Docbook output: recognize more image formats. * texi2dvi: . new option --recode, to call recode for input character translation. * Distribution: . new convenience script texi2pdf, equivalent to texi2dvi --pdf (from tetex). . some cross-compiling support in configure && make. . new configure option --disable-install-warnings, for TeX. distributions which do have the files installed. . automake 1.9.4. 4.7 (9 April 2004) * Language: . new commands @float, @caption, @shortcaption, @listoffloats for initial implementation of floating material (figures, tables, etc). Ironically, they do not yet actually float anywhere. . new commands @docbook, @ifdocbook, @ifnotdocbook for conditional Docbook. . new commands @ordf{} and @ordm{} for Spanish feminine/masculine ordinals. . new commands @deftypecv[x] for class variables in typed OO languages. . new command @registeredsymbol for the r-in-a-circle symbol. . new command @headitem to make a heading row in @multitable. . new command @LaTeX{} for the LaTeX logo. . new command @comma{} to avoid comma-parsing problems. . @url is now a synonym for @uref; new command @indicateurl has the old meaning of just displaying a url as text. . @quotation now accepts an optional argument for labelling the text as a `Note', `Tip', etc. . @defun (et al.) heading lines can now be continued with a lone @. . @acronym accepts an optional argument for the meaning of the acronym. * makeinfo: . New environment variable TEXINFO_OUTPUT_FORMAT determines the output format at runtime, if no options are specified. . New option --plaintext, equivalent to --no-headers with Info output. . All outputs: - sections are numbered by default. . Info output: - punctuation is inserted after @pxref and @ref, if needed to make cross-references valid. - line numbers included in index menus, so Info readers can go to the exact line of an entry, not just a node. Also in plaintext output. - ^@^H[index^@^H] cookie included in index menus, so Info readers can handle the ] etc. commands better. . HTML output: - new algorithm for cross-references to other manuals, for maximum portability and stability. - include node name in <title> with split output. - @multicolumn fractions become percentages. - entities used for bullets, quotes, dashes, and others. - index entries are links to the exact locations. - <h4> and <h5> used for @sub and @subsubsections again. - accented dotless i supported. . XML output: many new tags and structure to preserve more source features. . Docbook output: - upgraded DTD to Docbook XML 4.2, no longer using Docbook SGML. - improved translation in general, for instance: - line annotations and marked quotations. * texi2dvi: . if available, use etex (pdfetex if --pdf) by default. . if the input file includes thumbpdf.sty (for LaTeX), then run thumbpdf. . more output if --debug. * texinfo.tex: . @defun names are now printed in typewriter (instead of bold), and within the arguments, @var text is printed in slanted typewriter. . @tex code is executed inside a TeX group, so that any changes must be prefixed with \global (or the equivalent) to be effective. (This change was actually made years ago, but never made it into the NEWS.) * info: . new option --where (aka --location, -w) to report where an Info file would be found, instead of reading it. . by default, output ANSI terminal escape sequences as-is; new option --no-raw-escapes overrides this. . use the newly-generated index line numbers. * Distribution: . new script gendocs.sh (not installed), for use by GNU maintainers in getting their manuals on the GNU web site. Documented in maintain.texi (http://www.gnu.org/prep/maintain/). . Most code uses ANSI C prototypes, to some extent. . New translation: nb. . automake 1.8.3, autoconf 2.59, gettext 0.14.1. 4.6 (10 June 2003) * Language: . new command @/ specifies an allowable breakpoint within a line. . new command @dofirstparagraphindent to control whether the first paragraph following a section heading is indented. Default is to omit this indentation, unlike the output up to now. . new command @indent for explicitly indenting a paragraph. . makeinfo writes a new construct for @image in Info output, so that graphical Info browsers (such as Emacs Info under X) can display an actual image. (Standalone Info ignores this, since it runs in a tty.) * makeinfo: . Common: - search for image files in the include file search path. - warns if @value is used on an undefined variable. . Info output: - default --split-size now 300,000 bytes, up from 50,000. - with --enable-encoding and a given @documentencoding, output a Local Variables section specifying that encoding, for use with Emacs. . HTML output: - uses <h3> at the smallest. - a few css <style> definitions are included to better implement @format, @display, @small..., etc. - new option --css-include=FILE includes FILE in the <style>. - @cartouche now outputs a <table> with a border. * texinfo.tex: . new Polish translation txi-pl.tex. * texi2dvi: . --command=CMD replaces --texinfo=CMD; it inserts CMD at the first line of LaTeX files now, or after the @setfilename for Texinfo files. * info: . RET now goes to the nearest xref (rather like Emacs Info), instead of the next xref starting on the current line. * Distribution: . new Romanian (ro) translation. . variables now declared const where appropriate. . gettext 0.12.1, automake 1.7.5. 4.5 (4 February 2003) * info: . a bug in 4.4 prevented compressed info files from being found. * Distribution: . detect sys/ptem.h on Solaris. 4.4 (31 January 2003) * Language: . The ' (ASCII apostrophe/right quote) character is finally allowed in node and anchor names. Thus, after installing this texinfo.tex, existing .aux files will cause errors! Remove them and rerun TeX to generate good ones. . @value constructs are now expanded in the filename arguments to @include and @verbatiminclude. * makeinfo: . @macro names may no longer include ^ or _, for the sake of math mode. . bug fix: @copying text is now reflected in tag table positions; before, nodes may not have been found with a long-enough @copying. . bug fix: html @verb arg is quoted properly, and does not imply a paragraph break. * texinfo.tex: . @smallexample and the like now output in a smaller font (9pt) in all paper formats, not just @smallbook and @afourpaper. . new translation txi-tr.tex. . bug fix: <>| and other characters do not disappear when they are first on a line in @verbatim. * install-info: . bug fix: don't translate the `* Menu' info keyword. * info: . CTRL-H is treated like DEL in incremental search. . arrow keys once again work in isearch contexts under Solaris. * infokey: . use .info key bindings before defaults. . allow prefix keys to be disabled. * Distribution: . update to GNU FDL 1.2 (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/fdl.html). . getopt and other common library files updated from gnulib (http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/gnulib/). . autoconf 2.57, automake 1.7.2. 4.3 (14 November 2002) * Language: . new command @tie{} to do a real tie (unbreakable interword space). * makeinfo: . html output for @defun and friends now has font changes. . html output has some class attributes. . xml and docbook output improved in many details. * texinfo.tex: . new Italian translations, txi-it.tex. . pdf bookmarks for unnumbered sections work. . type name for @defun and friends no longer extends into margin. * info: . automatic-footnotes now off by default, for emacs compatibility. . crash when MALLOC_CHECK_=2 fixed. * install-info: . new option --infodir synonym for --info-dir, for compatibility with the Debian install-info. . support for bzip2-compressed files. * texindex: . omit initial if the entire index is under one character. * Distribution: . development sources now available under CVS, see http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/texinfo/ . Turkish message translation. . gettext 0.11.5, autoconf 2.54, automake 1.7.1. *** NEWS FOR ALL AUTHORS OF TEXINFO MANUALS *** As of version 4.2, Texinfo has a command @copying to define the copyright and copying permissions for a manual. If you haven't already, please switch to using it in your next release, because the historical method of doing copyright permissions using @ifinfo failed to output copyright information in the HTML (or XML) formats. The manual has detailed explanations and examples. For convenience, here's a url to one of the relevant sections: http://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/manual/texinfo/html_node/Document-Permissions.html 4.2 (1 April 2002) * Language: . new command @copying to define copying permissions. See above. . new conditionals @ifplaintext, @ifnotplaintext for the plain text (--no-headers) output format. . new command @\ to produce literal \ inside @math, since \ by itself no longer works. * makeinfo: . emit accesskey attributes for keyboard shortcuts to menu items. . @{even,every,odd}{footing,header} are ignored by makeinfo now, so they no longer need to be enclosed in @iftex. * texinfo.tex: . bug fix for pdf-format table of contents. * info: . bug fixes for -R (--raw-escapes). . --help shows short option names. * Distribution: . the doc.c, funs.h, and key.c files in info/ are no longer generated at make time, to appease Automake's make distcheck. . gettext 0.11.1, autoconf 2.53, automake 1.6 (with install-info kludge). 4.1 (4 March 2002) * Language: . new commands @verbatim and @verb for printing verbatim inserts. . new command @verbatiminclude for verbatim include of files. . new environment @documentdescription for defining the HTML description. . new command @afivepaper for the A5 paper size. * makeinfo: . supports xml and docbook output. . supports HTML splitting by node, which is now the default. . new option --split-size to control maximum size of split info files. . new option --enable-encoding to enable * info: . user-specified key bindings supported. . ANSI escape sequences (as produced by groff) removed from man output by default; use --raw-escapes to let them through if your terminal supports them. . RET terminates incremental search normally. * texinfo.tex: . @math implies @tex, so all the usual plain TeX math is supported. . smaller fonts for @smallexample, in all page sizes. . improvements in the PDF support. * texi2dvi: . new option -o to explicitly specify output filename. * Distribution: . switch to GNU Free Documentation License (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/). . update to GNU gettext 0.11, autoconf 2.52, and automake 1.5. . Danish, Swedish, and Hebrew message translations. 4.0 (28 September 1999) * Language: . New command @anchor for cross references to arbitrary points. . New commands @documentlanguage sets the main document language, and @documentencoding sets the document input encoding (although not much is done yet with either). . New command @pagesizes allows limited control of text area for typesetting. . New command @acronym for abbreviations in all caps, such as `NASA'. . New command @alias for simple command aliases. . New command @definfoenclose for better control of info output. . New commands @deftypeivar for typed instance variables of a class and @deftypeop for typed operations of a class. . New command @novalidate suppresses cross-reference checking and (in TeX) auxiliary file creation. . New commands @setcontentsaftertitlepage and @setshortcontentsaftertitlepage to force printing the table of contents after @end titlepage. Also, @contents and @shortcontents themselves can now appear at the beginning of the document as well as the end. . New markup commands: @env (for environment variables), @command (for command names), @option (for command-line options). . New commands @smallformat and @smalldisplay, a la @smallexample. . New command @exampleindent to set indentation of example-like environments a la @paragraphindent. . @uref takes an optional third argument of text to show instead of (rather than in addition to) the url for info and dvi output. . @footnote works in an @item for a @table. * texinfo.tex: . latest version always at ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/texinfo/texinfo.tex (and mirrors). . implements @macro. . implements @paragraphindent (except asis). . @emph and @i use true italic type (cmti) instead of slanted (cmsl). . implements pdf output when run with pdftex. . better support for internationalization via txi-??.tex files. . footnotes now set in a smaller point size. * makeinfo: . supports HTML output with the --html option. . implication of --html: @top nodes should be wrapped in @ifnottex rather than @ifinfo. @ifinfo conditionals are not expanded with --html. . new option --number-sections to output chapter/section numbers. . dashes and quotes are not treated specially in node names. . new option --commands-in-node-names to allow @-commands in node names. (Not implemented in TeX, and most likely never will be.) . @emph output uses _underscores_. . @image looks for .png files before .jpg. . only output `Making ... file' line when verbose. . allow -v as synonym for --verbose. . new command line options to specify which conditionals to process (but --iftex is not fully implemented). . warns if @var contains any of ,[](). . @quote-arg implicitly done for all one-argument macros, so commas in the argument text are allowed. . \\ required in macro body to get single \, no other `escapes' defined. * info: . ISO Latin 1 characters are displayed and input as-is by default. . new option --vi-keys to enable vi-like and less-like key bindings. . new command S does case-sensitive searching. . new commands C-x n and C-x N repeat last search, respectively, in the same and in reverse direction, without prompting for the string. These commands are bound to n and N under --vi-keys, like in Less. . new command G menu1 menu2 ... searches for menu items from (dir), as allowed on the command line. . new command O (capital o, not zero) goes directly to the node that describes command-line options. . new command-line option --show-options causes the node which describes command-line options to be the first node displayed. . M-prior and M-DEL do new command info-scroll-other-window-backward. . / searches like s does. . If the search string includes upper-case letters, in both incremental and non-incremental search, the search is case-sensitive. . S searches case-sensitively even if the search string is all lower-case. . - makes the argument negative (so e.g. `- /' searches backward). . l restores point in the window returned to. . SPC/DEL do not move outside the current document. . foo.info is found before foo. . `info foo --index-search=bar' now searches for bar in foo's index. . support for files compressed with bzip2. * install-info: . handles gzipped dir files. . sort entries into alphabetical order. . install direntries only in preceding dircategory, not in all. . --delete does not require the info file to exist. . --delete can handle XEmacs-style dir entries. * texi2dvi: . bug fixed: now uses only the @iftex and @tex parts of the source. . process LaTeX source as well as Texinfo source. . output PDF (using pdftex) with new option --pdf. . handles --OPTION=ARG style of command line arguments. . new option --batch for progress reports but no interaction. . new option --clean to remove all auxiliary files. . new option --quiet for silence (unless there are errors). . new option -I for specifying directories for @include to search. . handles LaTeX files (running BibTeX etc.). * Fixes to util/gen-dir-node and util/fix-info-dir (formerly util/update-info). * Distribution: . Man pages included. . Czech and Norwegian message translations. . Various translations for texinfo.tex fixed words included. . DJGPP support. 3.12 (3 March 1998) * Elisp files removed, since they are only usefully distributed with Emacs. * Restore inclusion of compile-time $(infodir) to INFOPATH. * install-info creates a proper dir file. * Various portability fixes. 3.11 (31 July 1997) * New commands: - @uref to make a reference to a url; @url now only indicates such. - @image to include graphics (epsf for TeX). - @deftypemethod and @deftypemethodx to document methods in strongly typed object-oriented languages, such as C++. - @html for raw HTML. - @ifnothtml @ifnotinfo @ifnottex for more precise conditionals. - @kbdinputstyle to control when @kbd uses the slanted typewriter font. - @email takes second optional argument. * texinfo.tex reads texinfo.cnf (if present) for site-wide TeX configuration; for example, A4 paper sizes. * info: - arrow keys supported. - trailing : in INFOPATH appends default path. - new option --index-search for online help support. * makeinfo: - output files removed if errors unless (new option) --force. - new option -P to prepend to search path. - macro expansion file can be standard output. * install-info creates a new dir file if necessary. * update-info script to create a dir file from all info files. * Elisp: texnfo-tex.el and detexinfo.el removed from the distribution; - texnfo-tex features are now part of standard TeX & Texinfo packages; - makeinfo --no-headers does a better job than detexinfo.el. * Documentation: - Updates, revisions, corrections in the manual. - makeinfo.texi removed, as it was a copy of what was in texinfo.texi. * gettext support in sources, French and German translations included. * info man page removed; use the Texinfo manual. * Automake used, other portability fixes. 3.10 (omitted) 3.9 (4 October 1996) * makeinfo: - Give a suppressible (with --no-validate) error for references outside of any node. - Keep track of multitable output correctly for split files; this caused nodes after the first multitable to be ``undefined''. * install-info: - Rename --infodir option to --info-dir. - More robust error checking to avoid various crashes. * configure: Include replacements for memcpy and memmove functions in the distribution, in case they are missing. 3.8 (30 September 1996) * Define and/or document new and/or previously existing commands: Accents: @" @' @, @" @= @^ @` @~ @H @d @dotaccent @dotless @ringaccent @tieaccent @u @ubaraccent @v Special characters: @AA @AE @L @O @OE @aa @ae @exclamdown @l @o @oe @pounds @questiondown @ss Special punctuation: @! @? @enddots dir file maintenance: @dircategory @direntry; also new program, install-info HTML support: @email @url @ifhtml...@end ifhtml Macros: @macro @unmacro Tables: @multitable @tab Hyphenation: @- @hyphenation Spacing: @ @<TAB> @<NEWLINE> Sectioning: @headings singleafter/doubleafter (change heading style after current page) @centerchap @setchapterstyle Other: @shorttitlepage (simple title pages) @detailmenu...@end detailmenu (help makeinfo parse master menus) * Makeinfo prefers an input file named `foo.texinfo' or `foo.texi' or `foo.txinfo' to just `foo' (the latter most likely being an executable). * Makeinfo implements @. @! @? correctly, as end-of-sentence punctuation. * @key marks its argument with a lozenge in TeX and <...> in Info. * TeX output has substantially decreased interline spacing and other formatting changes. * Remove these obsolete and never-documented commands: @infotop @infoappendix @infoappendixsec @infoappendixsubsec @infoappendixsubsubsec @infochapter @infosection @infosubsection @infosubsubsection @infounnumbered @infounnumberedsec @infounnumberedsubsec @infounnumberedsubsubsec @input @smallbreak @medbreak @overfullrule @br * Deprecate these obsolete commands, to be removed in the next release: @ctrl @infoinclude @iappendix @iappendixsection @iappendixsec @iappendixsubsec @iappendixsubsubsec @ichapter @isection @isubsection @isubsubsection @iunnumbered @iunnumberedsec @iunnumberedsubsec @iunnumberedsubsubsec @setchapterstyle @titlespec 3.7 (24 December 1995) * Have --version print texinfo release number as well as the individual program version. * Better man page cleaning. * Update Elisp files from current Emacs release. 3.6 (21 June 1995) * Unmatched brace error reporting improved. * Missing comment terminator prevented compilation. 3.5 (20 June 1995) * Autoconf update. * Support for parallel makes. * make install does not install Elisp files. 3.4 (19 June 1995) * Handle @ifhtml in Elisp. * Update FSF address. 3.3 (15 June 1995) * Portability changes. * Compile Elisp files. * Don't distribute .info* files. 3.2 (9 June 1995) * Standalone Info can read Unix man pages. * New commands: @! @? @^ @" @enddots. * makeinfo -E does macro expansion (and nothing else). 3.1 (23 May 1993) Just bug fixes, see ChangeLog for full details. 3.0: first release of Texinfo version 2, with many new commands. Here is the separate NEWS for old releases of Info: Version 2.11, Sat Apr 1 09:15:21 1995 Changes since 2.7 beta: Although the basic code remains the same, there are numerous nits fixed, including some display bugs, and a memory leak. Some changes that have taken place with larger impact include the way in which the (dir) node is built; I have added in support for "localdir" directories among other things. Info files may be stored in compressed formats, and in their own subdirectories; menu items which do not explicitly name the node to which they are attached have the menu item name looked up as an Info file if it is not found within the current document. This means that the menu item: * Info:: The Info documentation reader. in (dir) refers to the info node "(info)Top". Please see the ChangeLog and documentation for details on other changes. Version 2.7 beta, Wed Dec 30 02:02:38 1992 Version 2.6 beta, Tue Dec 22 03:58:07 1992 Version 2.5 beta, Tue Dec 8 14:50:35 1992 Version 2.4 beta, Sat Nov 28 14:34:02 1992 Version 2.3 beta, Fri Nov 27 01:04:13 1992 Version 2.2 beta, Tue Nov 24 09:36:08 1992 Version 2.1 beta, Tue Nov 17 23:29:36 1992 Changes since 2.5 beta: Note that versions 2.6 and 2.7 Beta were only released to a select group. * "info-" removed from the front of M-x commands. * Automatic footnote display. When you enter a node which contains footnotes, and the variable "automatic-footnotes" is "On", Info pops up a window containing the footnotes. Likewise, when you leave that node, the window containing the footnotes goes away. * Cleaner built in documentation, and documentation functions. Use: o `M-x describe-variable' to read a variable's documentation o `M-x describe-key' to find out what a particular keystroke does. o `M-x describe-function' to read a function's documentation. o `M-x where-is' to find out what keys invoke a particular function. * Info can "tile" the displayed windows (via "M-x tile-windows"). If the variable "automatic-tiling" is "On", then splitting a window or deleting a window causes the remaining windows to be retiled. * You can save every keystroke you type in a "dribble file" by using the `--dribble FILENAME' option. You can initially read keystrokes from an alternate input stream with `--restore FILENAME', or by redirecting input on the command line `info < old-dribble'. * New behaviour of menu items. If the label is the same as the target node name, and the node couldn't be found in the current file, treat the label as a file name. For example, a menu entry in "DIR" might contain: * Emacs:: Cool text-editor. Info would not find the node "(dir)Emacs", so just plain "(emacs)" would be tried. * New variable "ISO-Latin" allows you to use European machines with 8-bit character sets. * Cleanups in echo area reading, and redisplay. Cleanups in handling the window which shows possible completions. * Info can now read files that have been compressed. An array in filesys.c maps extensions to programs that can decompress stdin, and write the results to stdout. Currently, ".Z"/uncompress, ".z"/gunzip, and ".Y"/unyabba are supported. The modeline for a compressed file shows "zz" in it. * There is a new variable "gc-compressed-files" which, if non-zero, says it is okay to reclaim the file buffer space allocated to a file which was compressed, if, and only if, that file's contents do not appear in any history node. * New file `nodemenu.c' implements a few functions for manipulating previously visited nodes. `C-x C-b' (list-visited-nodes) produces a menu of the nodes that could be reached by info-history-node in some window. `C-x b' (select-visited-node) is similar, but reads one of the node names with completion. * Keystroke `M-r' (move_to_screen_line) allows the user to place the cursor at the start of a specific screen line. Without a numeric argument, place the cursor on the center line; with an arg, place the cursor on that line. * Interruptible display implemented. Basic display speedups and hacks. * The message "*** Tags Out of Date ***" now means what it says. * Index searching with `,' (info-index-next) has been improved. * When scrolling with C-v, C-M-v, or M-v, only "Page Only" scrolling will happen. * Continuous scrolling (along with `]' (info-global-next) and `[' (info-global-prev) works better. `]' and `[' accept numeric arguments, moving that many nodes in that case. * `C-x w' (info-toggle-wrap) controls how lines wider than the width of the screen are displayed. If a line is too long, a `$' is displayed in the rightmost column of the window. * There are some new variables for controlling the behaviour of Info interactively. The current list of variables is as follows: Variable Name Default Value Description ------------- ------------- ----------- `automatic-footnotes' On When "On", footnotes appear and disappear automatically. `automatic-tiling' Off When "On", creating of deleting a window resizes other windows. `visible-bell' Off If non-zero, try to use a visible bell. `errors-ring-bell' On If non-zero, errors cause a ring. `show-index-match' On If non-zero, the portion of the string matched is highlighted by changing its case. `scroll-behaviour' Continuous One of "Continuous", "Next Only", or "Page Only". "Page Only" prevents you from scrolling past the bottom or top of a node. "Next Only" causes the Next or Prev node to be selected when you scroll past the bottom or top of a node. "Continous" moves linearly through the files hierarchical structure. `scroll-step' 0 Controls how scrolling is done for you when the cursor moves out of the current window. Non-zero means it is the number of lines you would like the screen to shift. A value of 0 means to center the line containing the cursor in the window. `gc-compressed-files' Off If non-zero means it is okay to reclaim the file buffer space allocated to a file which was compressed, if, and only if, that file's contents do not appear in the node list of any window. `ISO-Latin' Off Non-zero means that you are using an ISO Latin character set. By default, standard ASCII characters are assumed. ________________________________________ This release of Info is version 2.5 beta. Changes since 2.4 beta: * Index (i) and (,) commands fully implemented. * "configure" script now shipped with Info. * New function "set-variable" allows users to set various variables. * User-settable behaviour on end or beginning of node scrolling. This supersedes the SPC and DEL changes in 2.3 beta. ________________________________________ This release of Info is version 2.4 beta. Changes since 2.3 beta: * info-last-node now means move to the last node of this info file. * info-history-node means move backwards through this window's node history. * info-first-node moves to the first node in the Info file. This node is not necessarily "Top"! * SPC and DEL can select the Next or Prev node after printing an informative message when pressed at the end/beg of a node. ---------------------------------------- This release of Info is version 2.3 beta. Changes since 2.2 beta: * M-x command lines if NAMED_COMMANDS is #defined. Variable in Makefile. * Screen height changes made quite robust. * Interactive function "set-screen-height" implements user height changes. * Scrolling on some terminals is faster now. * C-l with numeric argument is fixed. ---------------------------------------- This release of Info is version 2.2 beta. Changes since 2.0: * C-g can now interrupt multi-file searches. * Incremental search is fully implemented. * Loading large tag tables is much faster now. * makedoc.c replaces shell script, speeding incremental builds. * Scrolling in redisplay is implemented. * Recursive uses of the echo area made more robust. * Garbage collection of unreferenced nodes.