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-$Id: NEWS,v 1.179 2008/09/18 18:45:56 karl Exp $
+$Id: NEWS 5382 2013-09-26 23:06:01Z karl $
 This NEWS file records noteworthy changes, very tersely.
 See the manual for detailed information.
 
-  Copyright (C) 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000,
-  2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+  Copyright 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001,
+  2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013
+  Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 
   Copying and distribution of this file, with or without modification,
   are permitted in any medium without royalty provided the copyright
@@ -21,7 +22,181 @@ one of the relevant sections:
   http://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/manual/texinfo/html_node/Document-Permissions.html
 
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+
+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 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, 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
@@ -36,9 +211,9 @@ one of the relevant sections:
 * 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 binary
-  (use it if you a need to override PATH settings).
+    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.