We have released version 6.7 of Texinfo, the GNU documentation format.
This package contains tools to produce documentation in various
formats, including HTML and PDF, from source files in the Texinfo
format. Texinfo is a text-based format with commands for marking text,
document structuring and indexing.
The highlight of this release is improved indexing facilities.
http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/texinfo/texinfo-6.7.tar.xz
http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/texinfo/texinfo-6.7.tar.gz
I can build texinfo from these files without any problems.
However, if I use the git repo I can't. I checked out the tag texinfo-6.7 and ran autogen.sh and get this error:
Preparing Texinfo development infrastructure:
./tp/maintain/
regenerate_file_lists.pl (cd tp && ./maintain/regenerate_docstr.sh Makefile.docstr)
(cd tp/tests && ../maintain/regenerate_cmd_tests.sh Makefile.onetst . -base 'formatting sectioning indices nested_formats contents layout' -tex_html 'tex_html')
aclocal -I gnulib/m4 && autoconf && autoheader && automake
missing file gnulib/lib/windows-mutex.c
configure.ac:90: error: expected source file, required through AC_LIBSOURCES, not found
gnulib/m4/gnulib-comp.m4:156: gl_INIT is expanded from...
configure.ac:90: the top level
autom4te: /usr/bin/m4 failed with exit status: 1
aclocal: error: echo failed with exit status: 1
I used to be able to build from the git tree without problems.
If automatic redirection fails, the list of mirrors is at:
https://www.gnu.org/prep/ftp.html
Failing that, you can use the main server:
https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/texinfo/texinfo-6.7.tar.xz
https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/texinfo/texinfo-6.7.tar.gz
Please email any comments to address@hidden.
The Texinfo web page: https://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/
Full news:
* 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