texinfo-6.3.90 pretest

[Gavin Smith]

The first pretest for the next Texinfo release has been uploaded to

ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/texinfo/texinfo-6.3.90.tar.xz
http://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/texinfo/texinfo-6.3.90.tar.xz

Please send any comments to address@hidden

List of changes since last release:

* 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:
  . supplying the --all option with --index-search displays a list
    of matching index entries
  . 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

* 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