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@@ -0,0 +1,888 @@ +$Id: NEWS,v 1.179 2008/09/18 18:45:56 karl Exp $ +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. + + Copying and distribution of this file, with or without modification, + are permitted in any medium without royalty provided the copyright + notice and this notice are preserved. + +*** 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. If you haven't already, +please switch to using it 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://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/manual/texinfo/html_node/Document-Permissions.html + +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- + +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 binary + (use it if you a need to override PATH settings). + +* install-info: + . bug fix: support names with embedded periods (e.g., config.status) again. + +* Distribution: + . autoconf 2.63. + + +4.12 (20 April 2008) + +* Language: + . new commands @clicksequence, @click, and @clickstyle for documenting + GUI sequences, and @arrow for the default glyph used. + . new commands @geq{} and @leq{} for the normal >= and <= relations. + +* install-info: + . lzma compression supported. + . Much work towards compatibility with Debian's independent + implementation. Changes in behavior: + - new entries are formatted to start at column 34 by default. + - existing entries are replaced by default. + - new sections are alphabetized among existing sections. + - if an entry being removed is the last one in a section, the + section is also removed. + . Also many new options: + --section REGEX TITLE. + --no-indent: disable formatting of new entries. + --menuentry, --name: specify left-hand side of an entry. + --dry-run: alias for --test. + --regex REGEX: renamed from --section regex, adds to all sections + matching REGEX by default. + --add-once: add only to first specified or matching section. + --align COL: start description at column COL. + --calign COL: start continuation lines in description at COL. + --max-width COL: wrap the description at COL. + . New section in the Texinfo manual describing all this. + +* info: + Our goal with these changes to the default interface is to make Info + documents more easily and quickly readable, especially by non-experts. + . the PageUp and PageDown keys move through the whole document by + default, instead of just the current node. + . the h command shows the basic help, and H starts the Info tutorial. + . the newly-bound x command deletes the current window, e.g., within help. + . the scroll-step variable is set to 1 by default, for smooth scrolling. + . the cursor-movement-scrolls-p variable is set to 1 by default, so + link searches look through the whole document. + . regular expression searches are supported, and are the default for + both regular and incremental searches. + . the new R command toggles between regexp and literal-string searches. + . the new variable scroll-last-node controls scrolling at the end of + the last node; by default, it now simply reports there are no more + nodes. To restore the old behavior, set scroll-last-node=Scroll. + . the precise line number specified in index entries is used if available. + . --usage=info shows usage for standalone Info. + . lzma compression supported. + +* Distribution: + . language support for no removed/renamed to nb, per Norwegian translators. + . new translation: es. + . bug fixes in make check (and elsewhere). + . gettext 0.17, automake 1.10.1, autoconf 2.62. + + +4.11 (9 September 2007) + +* Language: + . @documentlanguage now supports an optional country code + specification after the language code, a la gettext. + . new command @allowcodebreaks controls breaks at _ and - within @code. + . new command @frenchspacing controls spacing after sentences. + . new command @fonttextsize allows changing body text font size to 10pt. + . new command @textdegree{} produces the normal degrees symbol. + . new command @thischapternum can be used in TeX headers/footers. + . new commands for quotes: @quotedblleft @quotedblright + @quoteleft @quoteright @quotedblbase @quotesinglbase + @guillemetleft @guillemetright @guilsinglleft @guilsinglright. + . new option @set txicodequoteundirected produces an undirected quote + in code and example output, instead of the regular right quote. + . new option @set txicodequotebacktick produces a grave accent in + code and example output, instead of the regular left quote. +* makeinfo: + . The @documentlanguage locale is used to translate various document strings. + . --enable-encoding is now the default, meaning Info and plain text + output use 8-bit characters given a supported @documentencoding. + . new option --css-ref=URL for creating a stylesheet <link> in HTML output. + . new option --transliterate-file-names to use a reduction-to-ASCII + algorithm for split HTML file names, useful for non-Latin-based languages. + . @enddots{} outputs three dots instead of four, for consistency with + texinfo.tex. + . the Local Variables coding: setting written by --enable-encoding now + comes at the very end, after the tags table, so that Emacs can find + it in more cases. + . @allow-recursion (never documented) is deprecated and produces a warning. + . @quote-args (never documented) is now the default behavior. + . centering and such take account of character widths. + . the --reference-limit option is now a no-op. + . improvements to XML and Docbook output and the DTD. +* texinfo.tex: + . @thissection can now be used in custom headings, and @thischapter + works reliably even without @set chapternewpage. Custom headings + have additional flexibility as well. +* texi2dvi: + . pdftexi2dvi is a new wrapper to `texi2dvi --pdf', equal to texi2pdf, + for the sake of AUC-TeX which prepends `pdf' to the compilation + command when requested to produce PDF. +* info: + . look for info files in the current directory first, by default. + . when calling man, use -a if no explicit section is found. + . avoid showing the top(1) man page for nonexistent info files. +* install-info: + . new options --section-regex, --remove-exactly, --debug, --test. +* Distribution: + . autoconf 2.60, automake 1.10, gettext 0.16.1. + . gettext support now [external]. + . new translations: hu (Hungarian), rw (Kinyarwandan), vi (Vietnamese). + . most common sources imported from gnulib. + +4.10 (omitted) + + +4.9 (29 June 2007) +* GPLv3. +* texi2dvi: + . new mode --build=tidy which supports compilation in a separate + directory, where intermediate files are preserved. + . new option --build-dir, to specify where the tidy build will take + place, either locally or globally. This allows avoiding the clutter + while preserving auxiliary files. + . new support for AUC-TeX: texi2dvi (weakly) supports arguments a la + TeX such as `\nonstopmode\input{file.tex}'. + . new options --ps and --dvipdf, useful especially for pstricks documents. + . new option --src-specials, passed to TeX. +* texinfo.tex: + . Latin1, Latin2, Latin9, and UTF-8 are supported -- only as well as + the Computer Modern fonts can manage, which means primarily English + and western European languages, to a limited extent. + . png and jpg images supported in pdf output. + . new Russian, Serbian, and Ukrainian translations for texinfo.tex: + txi-ru.tex, txi-sr.tex, txi-uk.tex. + . section names with \ characters work properly in pdf outlines. + . have .toc files use @ as the escape character, instead of \. + + +4.8 (31 December 2004) +* Language: + . new command @euro for the Euro currency symbol, and + @documentencoding has some support for ISO-8859-15. + . new command @abbr for general abbreviations. + . new command @slanted to typeset text in a slanted font, + and @sansserif to typeset in a sans serif font. +* makeinfo: + . An empty first argument to cross-reference commands, such as @xref, + causes an error. This change was made in 4.1, but not mentioned in NEWS. + . HTML output: + - <a name="..."> constructs are added for the old-style + conversion of node names to HTML names, so that external references + to them can continue to work. + - "g_t" prefixed to targets for node names beginning with a + nonletter, for XHTML compatibility. + . Docbook output: recognize more image formats. +* texi2dvi: + . new option --recode, to call recode for input character translation. +* Distribution: + . new convenience script texi2pdf, equivalent to texi2dvi --pdf (from tetex). + . some cross-compiling support in configure && make. + . new configure option --disable-install-warnings, for TeX. + distributions which do have the files installed. + . automake 1.9.4. + + +4.7 (9 April 2004) +* Language: + . new commands @float, @caption, @shortcaption, @listoffloats for + initial implementation of floating material (figures, tables, etc). + Ironically, they do not yet actually float anywhere. + . new commands @docbook, @ifdocbook, @ifnotdocbook for conditional Docbook. + . new commands @ordf{} and @ordm{} for Spanish feminine/masculine ordinals. + . new commands @deftypecv[x] for class variables in typed OO languages. + . new command @registeredsymbol for the r-in-a-circle symbol. + . new command @headitem to make a heading row in @multitable. + . new command @LaTeX{} for the LaTeX logo. + . new command @comma{} to avoid comma-parsing problems. + . @url is now a synonym for @uref; new command @indicateurl has the + old meaning of just displaying a url as text. + . @quotation now accepts an optional argument for labelling the text + as a `Note', `Tip', etc. + . @defun (et al.) heading lines can now be continued with a lone @. + . @acronym accepts an optional argument for the meaning of the acronym. +* makeinfo: + . New environment variable TEXINFO_OUTPUT_FORMAT determines the output + format at runtime, if no options are specified. + . New option --plaintext, equivalent to --no-headers with Info output. + . All outputs: + - sections are numbered by default. + . Info output: + - punctuation is inserted after @pxref and @ref, if needed to make + cross-references valid. + - line numbers included in index menus, so Info readers can go to + the exact line of an entry, not just a node. Also in plaintext output. + - ^@^H[index^@^H] cookie included in index menus, so Info readers + can handle the ] etc. commands better. + . HTML output: + - new algorithm for cross-references to other manuals, for maximum + portability and stability. + - include node name in <title> with split output. + - @multicolumn fractions become percentages. + - entities used for bullets, quotes, dashes, and others. + - index entries are links to the exact locations. + - <h4> and <h5> used for @sub and @subsubsections again. + - accented dotless i supported. + . XML output: many new tags and structure to preserve more source features. + . Docbook output: + - upgraded DTD to Docbook XML 4.2, no longer using Docbook SGML. + - improved translation in general, for instance: + - line annotations and marked quotations. +* texi2dvi: + . if available, use etex (pdfetex if --pdf) by default. + . if the input file includes thumbpdf.sty (for LaTeX), then run thumbpdf. + . more output if --debug. +* texinfo.tex: + . @defun names are now printed in typewriter (instead of bold), and + within the arguments, @var text is printed in slanted typewriter. + . @tex code is executed inside a TeX group, so that any changes must + be prefixed with \global (or the equivalent) to be effective. (This + change was actually made years ago, but never made it into the NEWS.) +* info: + . new option --where (aka --location, -w) to report where an Info file + would be found, instead of reading it. + . by default, output ANSI terminal escape sequences as-is; new option + --no-raw-escapes overrides this. + . use the newly-generated index line numbers. +* Distribution: + . new script gendocs.sh (not installed), for use by GNU maintainers in + getting their manuals on the GNU web site. Documented in + maintain.texi (http://www.gnu.org/prep/maintain/). + . Most code uses ANSI C prototypes, to some extent. + . New translation: nb. + . automake 1.8.3, autoconf 2.59, gettext 0.14.1. + + +4.6 (10 June 2003) +* Language: + . new command @/ specifies an allowable breakpoint within a line. + . new command @dofirstparagraphindent to control whether the first + paragraph following a section heading is indented. Default is to + omit this indentation, unlike the output up to now. + . new command @indent for explicitly indenting a paragraph. + . makeinfo writes a new construct for @image in Info output, so that + graphical Info browsers (such as Emacs Info under X) can display an + actual image. (Standalone Info ignores this, since it runs in a tty.) +* makeinfo: + . Common: + - search for image files in the include file search path. + - warns if @value is used on an undefined variable. + . Info output: + - default --split-size now 300,000 bytes, up from 50,000. + - with --enable-encoding and a given @documentencoding, + output a Local Variables section specifying that encoding, for use + with Emacs. + . HTML output: + - uses <h3> at the smallest. + - a few css <style> definitions are included to better + implement @format, @display, @small..., etc. + - new option --css-include=FILE includes FILE in the <style>. + - @cartouche now outputs a <table> with a border. +* texinfo.tex: + . new Polish translation txi-pl.tex. +* texi2dvi: + . --command=CMD replaces --texinfo=CMD; it inserts CMD at the first + line of LaTeX files now, or after the @setfilename for Texinfo files. +* info: + . RET now goes to the nearest xref (rather like Emacs Info), + instead of the next xref starting on the current line. +* Distribution: + . new Romanian (ro) translation. + . variables now declared const where appropriate. + . gettext 0.12.1, automake 1.7.5. + + +4.5 (4 February 2003) +* info: + . a bug in 4.4 prevented compressed info files from being found. +* Distribution: + . detect sys/ptem.h on Solaris. + + +4.4 (31 January 2003) +* Language: + . The ' (ASCII apostrophe/right quote) character is finally allowed in + node and anchor names. Thus, after installing this texinfo.tex, + existing .aux files will cause errors! Remove them and rerun TeX to + generate good ones. + . @value constructs are now expanded in the filename arguments to + @include and @verbatiminclude. +* makeinfo: + . @macro names may no longer include ^ or _, for the sake of math mode. + . bug fix: @copying text is now reflected in tag table positions; + before, nodes may not have been found with a long-enough @copying. + . bug fix: html @verb arg is quoted properly, and does not imply + a paragraph break. +* texinfo.tex: + . @smallexample and the like now output in a smaller font (9pt) in all + paper formats, not just @smallbook and @afourpaper. + . new translation txi-tr.tex. + . bug fix: <>| and other characters do not disappear when they are + first on a line in @verbatim. +* install-info: + . bug fix: don't translate the `* Menu' info keyword. +* info: + . CTRL-H is treated like DEL in incremental search. + . arrow keys once again work in isearch contexts under Solaris. +* infokey: + . use .info key bindings before defaults. + . allow prefix keys to be disabled. +* Distribution: + . update to GNU FDL 1.2 (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/fdl.html). + . getopt and other common library files updated from gnulib + (http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/gnulib/). + . autoconf 2.57, automake 1.7.2. + + +4.3 (14 November 2002) +* Language: + . new command @tie{} to do a real tie (unbreakable interword space). +* makeinfo: + . html output for @defun and friends now has font changes. + . html output has some class attributes. + . xml and docbook output improved in many details. +* texinfo.tex: + . new Italian translations, txi-it.tex. + . pdf bookmarks for unnumbered sections work. + . type name for @defun and friends no longer extends into margin. +* info: + . automatic-footnotes now off by default, for emacs compatibility. + . crash when MALLOC_CHECK_=2 fixed. +* install-info: + . new option --infodir synonym for --info-dir, for compatibility with + the Debian install-info. + . support for bzip2-compressed files. +* texindex: + . omit initial if the entire index is under one character. +* Distribution: + . development sources now available under CVS, see + http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/texinfo/ + . Turkish message translation. + . gettext 0.11.5, autoconf 2.54, automake 1.7.1. + + +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). + + +4.1 (4 March 2002) +* Language: + . new commands @verbatim and @verb for printing verbatim inserts. + . new command @verbatiminclude for verbatim include of files. + . new environment @documentdescription for defining the HTML description. + . new command @afivepaper for the A5 paper size. +* makeinfo: + . supports xml and docbook output. + . supports HTML splitting by node, which is now the default. + . new option --split-size to control maximum size of split info files. + . new option --enable-encoding to enable +* info: + . user-specified key bindings supported. + . ANSI escape sequences (as produced by groff) removed from man output + by default; use --raw-escapes to let them through if your terminal + supports them. + . RET terminates incremental search normally. +* texinfo.tex: + . @math implies @tex, so all the usual plain TeX math is supported. + . smaller fonts for @smallexample, in all page sizes. + . improvements in the PDF support. +* texi2dvi: + . new option -o to explicitly specify output filename. +* Distribution: + . switch to GNU Free Documentation License (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/). + . update to GNU gettext 0.11, autoconf 2.52, and automake 1.5. + . Danish, Swedish, and Hebrew message translations. + + +4.0 (28 September 1999) +* Language: + . New command @anchor for cross references to arbitrary points. + . New commands @documentlanguage sets the main document language, + and @documentencoding sets the document input encoding (although not + much is done yet with either). + . New command @pagesizes allows limited control of text area for typesetting. + . New command @acronym for abbreviations in all caps, such as `NASA'. + . New command @alias for simple command aliases. + . New command @definfoenclose for better control of info output. + . New commands @deftypeivar for typed instance variables of a class + and @deftypeop for typed operations of a class. + . New command @novalidate suppresses cross-reference checking and (in + TeX) auxiliary file creation. + . New commands @setcontentsaftertitlepage and + @setshortcontentsaftertitlepage to force printing the table of + contents after @end titlepage. Also, @contents and @shortcontents + themselves can now appear at the beginning of the document as + well as the end. + . New markup commands: @env (for environment variables), @command (for + command names), @option (for command-line options). + . New commands @smallformat and @smalldisplay, a la @smallexample. + . New command @exampleindent to set indentation of example-like + environments a la @paragraphindent. + . @uref takes an optional third argument of text to show instead of + (rather than in addition to) the url for info and dvi output. + . @footnote works in an @item for a @table. +* texinfo.tex: + . latest version always at ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/texinfo/texinfo.tex + (and mirrors). + . implements @macro. + . implements @paragraphindent (except asis). + . @emph and @i use true italic type (cmti) instead of slanted (cmsl). + . implements pdf output when run with pdftex. + . better support for internationalization via txi-??.tex files. + . footnotes now set in a smaller point size. +* makeinfo: + . supports HTML output with the --html option. + . implication of --html: @top nodes should be wrapped in @ifnottex + rather than @ifinfo. @ifinfo conditionals are not expanded with --html. + . new option --number-sections to output chapter/section numbers. + . dashes and quotes are not treated specially in node names. + . new option --commands-in-node-names to allow @-commands in node names. + (Not implemented in TeX, and most likely never will be.) + . @emph output uses _underscores_. + . @image looks for .png files before .jpg. + . only output `Making ... file' line when verbose. + . allow -v as synonym for --verbose. + . new command line options to specify which conditionals to process + (but --iftex is not fully implemented). + . warns if @var contains any of ,[](). + . @quote-arg implicitly done for all one-argument macros, so commas in + the argument text are allowed. + . \\ required in macro body to get single \, no other `escapes' defined. +* info: + . ISO Latin 1 characters are displayed and input as-is by default. + . new option --vi-keys to enable vi-like and less-like key bindings. + . new command S does case-sensitive searching. + . new commands C-x n and C-x N repeat last search, respectively, in the + same and in reverse direction, without prompting for the string. These + commands are bound to n and N under --vi-keys, like in Less. + . new command G menu1 menu2 ... searches for menu items from (dir), + as allowed on the command line. + . new command O (capital o, not zero) goes directly to the node that + describes command-line options. + . new command-line option --show-options causes the node which + describes command-line options to be the first node displayed. + . M-prior and M-DEL do new command info-scroll-other-window-backward. + . / searches like s does. + . If the search string includes upper-case letters, in both incremental + and non-incremental search, the search is case-sensitive. + . S searches case-sensitively even if the search string is all + lower-case. + . - makes the argument negative (so e.g. `- /' searches backward). + . l restores point in the window returned to. + . SPC/DEL do not move outside the current document. + . foo.info is found before foo. + . `info foo --index-search=bar' now searches for bar in foo's index. + . support for files compressed with bzip2. +* install-info: + . handles gzipped dir files. + . sort entries into alphabetical order. + . install direntries only in preceding dircategory, not in all. + . --delete does not require the info file to exist. + . --delete can handle XEmacs-style dir entries. +* texi2dvi: + . bug fixed: now uses only the @iftex and @tex parts of the source. + . process LaTeX source as well as Texinfo source. + . output PDF (using pdftex) with new option --pdf. + . handles --OPTION=ARG style of command line arguments. + . new option --batch for progress reports but no interaction. + . new option --clean to remove all auxiliary files. + . new option --quiet for silence (unless there are errors). + . new option -I for specifying directories for @include to search. + . handles LaTeX files (running BibTeX etc.). +* Fixes to util/gen-dir-node and util/fix-info-dir (formerly util/update-info). +* Distribution: + . Man pages included. + . Czech and Norwegian message translations. + . Various translations for texinfo.tex fixed words included. + . DJGPP support. + + +3.12 (3 March 1998) +* Elisp files removed, since they are only usefully distributed with Emacs. +* Restore inclusion of compile-time $(infodir) to INFOPATH. +* install-info creates a proper dir file. +* Various portability fixes. + + +3.11 (31 July 1997) +* New commands: + - @uref to make a reference to a url; @url now only indicates such. + - @image to include graphics (epsf for TeX). + - @deftypemethod and @deftypemethodx to document methods in strongly + typed object-oriented languages, such as C++. + - @html for raw HTML. + - @ifnothtml @ifnotinfo @ifnottex for more precise conditionals. + - @kbdinputstyle to control when @kbd uses the slanted typewriter font. + - @email takes second optional argument. +* texinfo.tex reads texinfo.cnf (if present) for site-wide TeX + configuration; for example, A4 paper sizes. +* info: + - arrow keys supported. + - trailing : in INFOPATH appends default path. + - new option --index-search for online help support. +* makeinfo: + - output files removed if errors unless (new option) --force. + - new option -P to prepend to search path. + - macro expansion file can be standard output. +* install-info creates a new dir file if necessary. +* update-info script to create a dir file from all info files. +* Elisp: texnfo-tex.el and detexinfo.el removed from the distribution; + - texnfo-tex features are now part of standard TeX & Texinfo packages; + - makeinfo --no-headers does a better job than detexinfo.el. +* Documentation: + - Updates, revisions, corrections in the manual. + - makeinfo.texi removed, as it was a copy of what was in texinfo.texi. +* gettext support in sources, French and German translations included. +* info man page removed; use the Texinfo manual. +* Automake used, other portability fixes. + +3.10 (omitted) + + +3.9 (4 October 1996) +* makeinfo: + - Give a suppressible (with --no-validate) error for references + outside of any node. + - Keep track of multitable output correctly for split files; this + caused nodes after the first multitable to be ``undefined''. +* install-info: + - Rename --infodir option to --info-dir. + - More robust error checking to avoid various crashes. +* configure: Include replacements for memcpy and memmove functions in + the distribution, in case they are missing. + + +3.8 (30 September 1996) +* Define and/or document new and/or previously existing commands: + Accents: @" @' @, @" @= @^ @` @~ @H @d @dotaccent @dotless @ringaccent + @tieaccent @u @ubaraccent @v + Special characters: @AA @AE @L @O @OE @aa @ae @exclamdown @l @o @oe + @pounds @questiondown @ss + Special punctuation: @! @? @enddots + dir file maintenance: @dircategory @direntry; also new program, install-info + HTML support: @email @url @ifhtml...@end ifhtml + Macros: @macro @unmacro + Tables: @multitable @tab + Hyphenation: @- @hyphenation + Spacing: @ @<TAB> @<NEWLINE> + Sectioning: + @headings singleafter/doubleafter (change heading style after current page) + @centerchap + @setchapterstyle + Other: + @shorttitlepage (simple title pages) + @detailmenu...@end detailmenu (help makeinfo parse master menus) +* Makeinfo prefers an input file named `foo.texinfo' or `foo.texi' or + `foo.txinfo' to just `foo' (the latter most likely being an executable). +* Makeinfo implements @. @! @? correctly, as end-of-sentence punctuation. +* @key marks its argument with a lozenge in TeX and <...> in Info. +* TeX output has substantially decreased interline spacing and other + formatting changes. +* Remove these obsolete and never-documented commands: + @infotop + @infoappendix @infoappendixsec @infoappendixsubsec @infoappendixsubsubsec + @infochapter @infosection @infosubsection @infosubsubsection + @infounnumbered @infounnumberedsec @infounnumberedsubsec + @infounnumberedsubsubsec + @input + @smallbreak @medbreak + @overfullrule + @br +* Deprecate these obsolete commands, to be removed in the next release: + @ctrl + @infoinclude + @iappendix @iappendixsection @iappendixsec @iappendixsubsec + @iappendixsubsubsec + @ichapter @isection @isubsection @isubsubsection + @iunnumbered @iunnumberedsec @iunnumberedsubsec @iunnumberedsubsubsec + @setchapterstyle + @titlespec + + +3.7 (24 December 1995) +* Have --version print texinfo release number as well as the individual + program version. +* Better man page cleaning. +* Update Elisp files from current Emacs release. + + +3.6 (21 June 1995) +* Unmatched brace error reporting improved. +* Missing comment terminator prevented compilation. + + +3.5 (20 June 1995) +* Autoconf update. +* Support for parallel makes. +* make install does not install Elisp files. + + +3.4 (19 June 1995) +* Handle @ifhtml in Elisp. +* Update FSF address. + + +3.3 (15 June 1995) +* Portability changes. +* Compile Elisp files. +* Don't distribute .info* files. + + +3.2 (9 June 1995) +* Standalone Info can read Unix man pages. +* New commands: @! @? @^ @" @enddots. +* makeinfo -E does macro expansion (and nothing else). + + +3.1 (23 May 1993) +Just bug fixes, see ChangeLog for full details. + + +3.0: first release of Texinfo version 2, with many new commands. + + + +Here is the separate NEWS for old releases of Info: + +Version 2.11, Sat Apr 1 09:15:21 1995 + +Changes since 2.7 beta: + +Although the basic code remains the same, there are numerous nits +fixed, including some display bugs, and a memory leak. Some changes +that have taken place with larger impact include the way in which the +(dir) node is built; I have added in support for "localdir" +directories among other things. Info files may be stored in +compressed formats, and in their own subdirectories; menu items which +do not explicitly name the node to which they are attached have the +menu item name looked up as an Info file if it is not found within the +current document. This means that the menu item: + +* Info:: The Info documentation reader. + +in (dir) refers to the info node "(info)Top". + +Please see the ChangeLog and documentation for details on other +changes. + +Version 2.7 beta, Wed Dec 30 02:02:38 1992 +Version 2.6 beta, Tue Dec 22 03:58:07 1992 +Version 2.5 beta, Tue Dec 8 14:50:35 1992 +Version 2.4 beta, Sat Nov 28 14:34:02 1992 +Version 2.3 beta, Fri Nov 27 01:04:13 1992 +Version 2.2 beta, Tue Nov 24 09:36:08 1992 +Version 2.1 beta, Tue Nov 17 23:29:36 1992 + +Changes since 2.5 beta: + +Note that versions 2.6 and 2.7 Beta were only released to a select group. + +* "info-" removed from the front of M-x commands. + +* Automatic footnote display. When you enter a node which contains + footnotes, and the variable "automatic-footnotes" is "On", Info pops + up a window containing the footnotes. Likewise, when you leave that + node, the window containing the footnotes goes away. + +* Cleaner built in documentation, and documentation functions. + + Use: + o `M-x describe-variable' to read a variable's documenation + o `M-x describe-key' to find out what a particular keystroke does. + o `M-x describe-function' to read a function's documentation. + o `M-x where-is' to find out what keys invoke a particular function. + +* Info can "tile" the displayed windows (via "M-x tile-windows"). If + the variable "automatic-tiling" is "On", then splitting a window or + deleting a window causes the remaining windows to be retiled. + +* You can save every keystroke you type in a "dribble file" by using the + `--dribble FILENAME' option. You can initially read keystrokes from an + alternate input stream with `--restore FILENAME', or by redirecting + input on the command line `info < old-dribble'. + +* New behaviour of menu items. If the label is the same as the + target node name, and the node couldn't be found in the current file, + treat the label as a file name. For example, a menu entry in "DIR" + might contain: + + * Emacs:: Cool text-editor. + + Info would not find the node "(dir)Emacs", so just plain "(emacs)" + would be tried. + +* New variable "ISO-Latin" allows you to use European machines with + 8-bit character sets. + +* Cleanups in echo area reading, and redisplay. Cleanups in handling the + window which shows possible completions. + +* Info can now read files that have been compressed. An array in filesys.c + maps extensions to programs that can decompress stdin, and write the results + to stdout. Currently, ".Z"/uncompress, ".z"/gunzip, and ".Y"/unyabba are + supported. The modeline for a compressed file shows "zz" in it. + +* There is a new variable "gc-compressed-files" which, if non-zero, says + it is okay to reclaim the file buffer space allocated to a file which + was compressed, if, and only if, that file's contents do not appear in + any history node. + +* New file `nodemenu.c' implements a few functions for manipulating + previously visited nodes. `C-x C-b' (list-visited-nodes) produces a + menu of the nodes that could be reached by info-history-node in some + window. `C-x b' (select-visited-node) is similar, but reads one of + the node names with completion. + +* Keystroke `M-r' (move_to_screen_line) allows the user to place the cursor at + the start of a specific screen line. Without a numeric argument, place the + cursor on the center line; with an arg, place the cursor on that line. + +* Interruptible display implemented. Basic display speedups and hacks. +* The message "*** Tags Out of Date ***" now means what it says. +* Index searching with `,' (info-index-next) has been improved. +* When scrolling with C-v, C-M-v, or M-v, only "Page Only" scrolling + will happen. + +* Continous scrolling (along with `]' (info-global-next) and `[' + (info-global-prev) works better. `]' and `[' accept numeric + arguments, moving that many nodes in that case. + +* `C-x w' (info-toggle-wrap) controls how lines wider than the width + of the screen are displayed. If a line is too long, a `$' is + displayed in the rightmost column of the window. + +* There are some new variables for controlling the behaviour of Info + interactively. The current list of variables is as follows: + + Variable Name Default Value Description + ------------- ------------- ----------- + `automatic-footnotes' On When "On", footnotes appear and + disappear automatically. + + `automatic-tiling' Off When "On", creating of deleting a + window resizes other windows. + + `visible-bell' Off If non-zero, try to use a visible bell. + + `errors-ring-bell' On If non-zero, errors cause a ring. + + `show-index-match' On If non-zero, the portion of the string + matched is highlighted by changing its + case. + + `scroll-behaviour' Continuous One of "Continuous", "Next Only", or + "Page Only". "Page Only" prevents you from + scrolling past the bottom or top of a node. + "Next Only" causes the Next or Prev node to + be selected when you scroll past the bottom + or top of a node. "Continous" moves + linearly through the files hierchichal + structure. + + `scroll-step' 0 Controls how scrolling is done for you when + the cursor moves out of the current window. + Non-zero means it is the number of lines + you would like the screen to shift. A + value of 0 means to center the line + containing the cursor in the window. + + `gc-compressed-files' Off If non-zero means it is okay to reclaim the + file buffer space allocated to a file which + was compressed, if, and only if, that + file's contents do not appear in the node + list of any window. + + `ISO-Latin' Off Non-zero means that you are using an ISO + Latin character set. By default, standard + ASCII characters are assumed. +________________________________________ +This release of Info is version 2.5 beta. + +Changes since 2.4 beta: + +* Index (i) and (,) commands fully implemented. +* "configure" script now shipped with Info. +* New function "set-variable" allows users to set various variables. +* User-settable behaviour on end or beginning of node scrolling. This + supercedes the SPC and DEL changes in 2.3 beta. + +________________________________________ +This release of Info is version 2.4 beta. + +Changes since 2.3 beta: + +* info-last-node now means move to the last node of this info file. +* info-history-node means move backwards through this window's node history. +* info-first-node moves to the first node in the Info file. This node is + not necessarily "Top"! +* SPC and DEL can select the Next or Prev node after printing an informative + message when pressed at the end/beg of a node. + +---------------------------------------- +This release of Info is version 2.3 beta. + +Changes since 2.2 beta: + +* M-x command lines if NAMED_COMMANDS is #defined. Variable in Makefile. +* Screen height changes made quite robust. +* Interactive function "set-screen-height" implements user height changes. +* Scrolling on some terminals is faster now. +* C-l with numeric arguement is fixed. + +---------------------------------------- +This release of Info is version 2.2 beta. + +Changes since 2.0: + +* C-g can now interrupt multi-file searches. +* Incremental search is fully implemented. +* Loading large tag tables is much faster now. +* makedoc.c replaces shell script, speeding incremental builds. +* Scrolling in redisplay is implemented. +* Recursive uses of the echo area made more robust. +* Garbage collection of unreferenced nodes. |