texinfo 4.2 released - important copyright support changes

[Karl Berry]

I have released version 4.2 of Texinfo, the GNU documentation format
with supporting programs.  The news for this release is appended.

You can get it by anonymous ftp from
  ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/texinfo/texinfo-4.2.tar.gz
  and its mirrors worldwide (see http://www.gnu.org/order/ftp.html).


*** IMPORTANT NEWS FOR ALL AUTHORS OF TEXINFO MANUALS ***

As of version 4.2, Texinfo has a new command @copying to define the
copyright and copying permissions for a manual.  It's important to
switch to using it as soon as possible (as 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://texinfo.org/manual/Document-Permissions.html


Texinfo also has small web pages at http://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo
and http://texinfo.org/.

Please email bugs or suggestions to address@hidden,
general discussion to address@hidden

Peace,
address@hidden



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).