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Re: texinfo-4.13.90 pretest available
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John Darrington |
Subject: |
Re: texinfo-4.13.90 pretest available |
Date: |
Mon, 19 Nov 2012 19:56:38 +0100 |
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On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 07:26:38PM +0000, Karl Berry wrote:
Finally, the first pretest for the next Texinfo release is available:
ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/texinfo/texinfo-4.13.90.tar.xz
http://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/texinfo/texinfo-4.13.90.tar.xz
Please send any feedback here, to bug-texinfo.
It seems that this version, unlike previous versions does not like spaces
between the command name and the opening brace eg "@footnote {this is a
footnote}".
The manual doesn't make this explicit.
Thanks,
Karl & Patrice
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* Language:
. Texinfo commands are supported in node names.
. #line directives are recognized.
. 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 the @set variables; 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 (based on the texi2html program, but
with a vast array of subsequent changes). It 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
extensive customization of the HTML output is possible. 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.
* 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 included in searches.
. There is a lower limit on the length of search patterns. The default
value is 1. It can be changed by setting the variable
min-search-length,
either by `M-x set-variable', or using infokey.
. xz compression supported.
* install-info:
. xz compression supported.
* Documentation:
. new appendix with a technical description of the Info file format.
. extensive information on the customizations of the HTML output that
are 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.
. documentation license now GFDLv1.3 or later.
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.
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- Re: texinfo-4.13.90 pretest available, (continued)
- Re: texinfo-4.13.90 pretest available, John Darrington, 2012/11/19
- Re: texinfo-4.13.90 pretest available, Patrice Dumas, 2012/11/19
- Re: texinfo-4.13.90 pretest available, John Darrington, 2012/11/19
- Re: texinfo-4.13.90 pretest available, Patrice Dumas, 2012/11/19
- Re: texinfo-4.13.90 pretest available, Patrice Dumas, 2012/11/19
- Re: texinfo-4.13.90 pretest available, John Darrington, 2012/11/19
- Re: texinfo-4.13.90 pretest available, Patrice Dumas, 2012/11/19
- Re: texinfo-4.13.90 pretest available, Karl Berry, 2012/11/19
- Re: texinfo-4.13.90 pretest available, Patrice Dumas, 2012/11/20
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Re: texinfo-4.13.90 pretest available, Patrice Dumas, 2012/11/20