Changelog:
6.5 (12 September 2017)
* info:
. some bugs fixed:
. a bug where a segfault could happen in the regex search, for
example when the user entered a single \ as the search string
. another bug which could make nodes inaccessible in long "split"
info files
. a bug where it was not possible to follow a cross-reference
that was split across more than one line has been fixed
. do not fall back to a man page if following a cross-reference in an
info file failed
. if looking for a file failed, do not convert the name of a file to
lower-case and look for it again
* texinfo.tex
. some faulty definitions for Unicode characters have been changed or
removed
. fix indentation in table of contents for entries that are split
across multiple lines
* texi2dvi
. a bug that broke the processing of LaTeX files that did not
use BibTeX has been fixed
* texi2any
. output the encoding declaration of a HTML file earlier so it
will always occur within first 1024 bytes of file
. `INLINE_INSERTCOPYING' removed as a customization variable
6.4 (23 June 2017)
* 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:
. the `up-line' and `down-line' commands now are like the other
scrolling commands and are no longer confined to a single node
(depending on the value of `scroll-behaviour')
. supplying the --all option with --index-search displays a list
of matching index entries
. the style variables like `link-style' can now be set while info
is running
. 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
. Do not attempt any kind of conversion of CR LF line endings,
except on MS-DOS/Windows, when it is done unconditionally. (This
replaces a more complicated approach, where this conversion would
take place if there was a problem finding a node in a file.) The
main effect of this change is that Info files with CR LF line
endings, which would have been produced on MS-DOS/Windows with old
versions of makeinfo, are only supported on such operating systems.
. a few of the key bindings under --vi-keys have been changed for
consistency or to match the documentation
* 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
6.3 (10 September 2016)
* Language:
. The commands `@setcontentsaftertitlepage' and
`@setshortcontentsaftertitlepage' have been removed.
. @-commands are no longer supported within `@errormsg'.
* texinfo.tex:
. For a couple of characters (opening and closing braces), use glyphs
from the standard TeX math fonts instead of using EC fonts which are
less likely to be installed.
. Use of user-defined macros in the text of an index entry is more
reliable when the text contains Texinfo @-commands.
. @synindex and @syncodeindex have been fixed (broken in the last
release).
. Support added for native UTF-8 support with XeTeX and LuaTeX.
. Support of PDF output with XeTeX improved.
. You can use a new file doc/texinfo-ja.tex for Texinfo documents in
Japanese. doc/short-sample-ja.tex is a sample document. New
support file doc/txi-ja.tex for Japanese.
* texi2any:
. Fix handling of compiler options when building Perl extension modules.
* texi2dvi:
. Can now process files whose absolute paths contain space characters,
as long a relative path to the file is given. Better support of
files with unusual characters in their names.
. No longer exits prematurely in some circumstances (due to the script
running under "set -e").
. Bug fixed which made the `--command' and `--tidy' options
incompatible.
* info:
. Handling of "invalid" value in infokey file fixed.
6.2 (withdrawn)
Changelog:
6.1 (06 February 2016)
* Language:
. You can now omit the @menu from nodes with other nodes below them in
the document structure. If you use "@validatemenus off" near the
start of a Texinfo file, makeinfo will, where needed, create a menu
for nodes lacking one given explicitly.
. An @setfilename line is no longer required at the start of a
Texinfo file. (Be aware, though, that some other tools may require
it, for example Automake.)
. For processing with TeX, a comma is automatically provided following
a cross-reference command (such as @xref) when needed to separate
the page number from following text, so you don't need to add one
yourself. See the `Parts of a Cross Reference' node in the manual
for details. Behavior when followed by punctuation, as always
recommended previously, is unchanged.
* texi2any:
. Some Perl modules have been rewritten in C to increase speed.
If Perl extensions can be created, they are used by default;
otherwise the pure Perl implementations are still used.
Disable at build time with "configure --disable-perl-xs". The
environment variable TEXINFO_XS controls how they are used by
texi2any.
. Quotation marks are left out for node names and index entries in
Info output where they would have been produced by commands such
as @file or @option.
. New customization variable INFO_SPECIAL_CHARS_QUOTE to allow use of
a quoting mechanism for problematic constructs in Info output, for
example node names containing colons or commas.
. Commands like @heading are affected by @lowersections and @raisesections
again, as was the case before Texinfo 5.0.
* texinfo.tex:
. You may explicitly specify a sort key for an index entry by preceding
the text of the entry with the @sortas commmand with the sort key
desired as a braced argument. Additionally, you may choose to
ignore all occurences of the characters \, @, <, and - using new
flags you can specify with @set: `txiindexbackslashignore',
`txiindexatsignignore', `txiindexlessthanignore', and
`txiindexhyphenignore' respectively.
. Changes to macro handling to more closely match makeinfo. Ends of
lines are preserved in an argument to a macro taking a single
argument.
. By default, suppress heading line on a page with a chapter on it, to
avoid having the chapter title repeated.
. Use a larger font for arguments in a @deffn line and similar.
. The default indices (cp, ky and so on) now don't get a file opened
for them unless they are actually used. This reduces the number of
files that a run of TeX produces, and also allows for a greater
number of user-defined indices, because you will not bump into TeX's
limit of 16 open files at once so soon.
. For initials in indices that are non-alphanumeric characters (for
example, backslash, or braces), avoid use of a typewriter font.
This gives a more consistent appearance.
. Have a stronger preference for breaking a column in an index before
a letter heading.
. Formatting improvements in tables of contents and indices. Entries
can extend slightly into the margin instead of being broken across
two lines, and text is split more evenly across lines. Reduce
chance of an orphaned index entry appearing at the top of a column.
. Support character encodings beyond ASCII for XeTeX and LuaTeX by
reading file input byte-by-byte.
* texi2dvi:
. Support for determining the output files using the `-recorder'
option to TeX, to help to support more TeX engines.
* info:
. New user variables `link-style', `active-link-style', and
`match-style' enable customization of how cross-references and search
matches are highlighted.
. By default only the node pointers are displayed at the top of a node.
Customize this with the `nodeline' variable.
. New command M-x tree-search to search all subnodes of a node.
. Now tries to find referenced manuals in the same directory as the
current file first, before looking in search path. Customize this
with new variable `follow-strategy'.
. The `mouse' variable is now off by default, in order not to
interfere with the selection of text in a terminal emulator window.
. `q' closes a window instead of quitting altogether if there's more
than one, for example if a help window is open.
. Several bug fixes, including:
. one causing the wrong position in a node to be shown when
following an "anchor" cross-reference
. one causing a test failure in the t/c-u-m-x-scroll-forward.sh
test on some platforms
. Internal changes to reduce memory use and increase speed of
searches, relative to last release
. The meaning of the `key-time' variable has changed when its value
is 0. This value meant to wait forever in the last release, but now
it means that the next byte must be available immediately.
* Documentation:
. The `info.info' file (and `info.texi' source) is no longer
distributed with Texinfo. Now this manual is only in Emacs.
* Distribution:
. automake-1.15, gettext-0.19.6.
Issues found with existing distfiles:
distfiles/eclipse-sourceBuild-srcIncluded-3.0.1.zip
distfiles/fortran-utils-1.1.tar.gz
distfiles/ivykis-0.39.tar.gz
distfiles/enum-1.11.tar.gz
distfiles/pvs-3.2-libraries.tgz
distfiles/pvs-3.2-linux.tgz
distfiles/pvs-3.2-solaris.tgz
distfiles/pvs-3.2-system.tgz
No changes made to these distinfo files.
Otherwise, existing SHA1 digests verified and found to be the same on
the machine holding the existing distfiles (morden). All existing
SHA1 digests retained for now as an audit trail.
Changelog:
6.0 (26 June 2015)
* Language:
. new commands @sub and @sup, for textual subscripts and superscripts.
. new command @U to insert a Unicode character by code point.
* texinfo.tex:
. @url/@uref output in PDF now the same as in DVI, showing the url
even if the second argument is given, not just as a link target.
TeX option \urefurlonlylinktrue gives previous behavior, of invisible urls.
PDF-only \linkcolor and \urlcolor specify colors (default black).
* texi2any:
. customization variable TOP_NODE_UP_URL now replaces all (dir) references;
recommended setting for GNU packages is /manual/.
. new customization variable INDEX_SPECIAL_CHARS_WARNING to complain
when index entries contain a colon.
. Docbook output no longer uses <lineannotation> for @r.
. -D'var val' on the command line works as intended again.
. --plaintext output can be split.
. a bit faster.
* info:
. invoking as `info foo bar' looks for bar as an index entry in manual
foo, if not found as a top-level menu item.
. invoking info with an absolute or explicitly relative file name
(./foo.info, /tmp/foo.info, etc.) just visits that file.
. separate `infokey' program has been removed - the .infokey file is
now read directly by Info.
. new option --init-file allows overriding ~/.infokey.
. new variable `highlight-searches' allows highlighting results from a
search
. support for mouse scrollwheel, controlled by `mouse' variable.
. new variable `key_time' to control how long to wait for byte
sequences sent by special keys.
. new variable `hide-note-references' alters appearance of displayed nodes
. new variable `infopath-no-defaults' allows omitting the compile-time
Info directory from the Info search path.
. support input of multibyte characters for searches in a UTF-8 locale.
. if reading an Info file that is known to be in a different character
encoding to that of the user's environment, convert its contents
when displayed and substitute missing characters
. new command M-x info-version.
. the M-x kill-node command has been removed.
. test suite at build time.
* texindex:
. completely new implementation as a literate program using Texinfo
and (portable) awk (called TexiWeb Jr.), thanks to Arnold Robbins.
(Requires gawk 4.0+ if .twjr source is modified.)
. the -o (--output) is not supported, unless we hear of someone using it.
. duplicated sort keys with different display texts result in one
merged index entry, using the first display text.
. better sorting and parsing in unusual cases; most notably, { and }
characters can appear as initials.
* install-info:
. handle compressed input file names containing spaces.
. exit successfully if --remove is given and the dir file does not exist.
. new option --defsection, to be used instead of "Miscellaneous" when
a section is not present in the Info file.
* texi2dvi:
. look for the environment variable THUMBPDF_CMD instead of THUMBPDF,
since thumbpdf itself has used THUMBPDF for options since 2000.
. remove --recode and --recode-from options, since they haven't
worked as intended for years, so evidently no one needs them.
* Distribution:
. new translation ca (catalan).
. automake-1.15, gettext-0.19.4.
as indicated in pkg/48075, wherein pdksh doesn't support double-parens
if not containing an arithmetic expression of a particular form.
Older bash and ast-ksh apparently also had problems with this.
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.
bootstrapping.
*** 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
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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.
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 did not consider ends of lines from expansion
of an @macro definition to end an @-command line-delimited argument
(@chapter, @center, etc.). This is no longer the case. (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.
test for whether "local" works. Now ksh93 is correctly detected as
a shell that does not have a working 'local' command.
Use REPLACE_SH to edit the #!/bin/sh line in util/texi2dvi, to make
it use the value of ${SH} instead of /bin/sh.
Set PKGREVISION=1.
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.
Suggest installing pdftex/pdflatex for PDF support.
Based on suggestion from Jeremy C. Reed and patch by Aleksey Cheusov.
Remove EXTRACT_SUFX, it was at its default.
gtexinfo only needs the t*() termcap functions (info/terminal.c).
+ Drop patch-ad. The custom termcap code it added is now automatically
handled by termcap.buildlink3.mk. Also the modification to the
function signature for output_character_function is wrong -- tputs
does expect "int (*)(int)".
Bump the PKGREVISION to 1.
Based on patch provided by Magnus Henoch in PR 37481.
I made some modification:
* keep and update patch-ac (need to pick up pkgsrc info files).
* fixes PLIST, missing some entries.
* portability fix in texi2dvi (patch-am).
* DESTDIR support.
Changes:
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 \.
warnings.
===> GCC
texindex.c: In function `readline':
texindex.c:848: warning: assignment makes pointer from integer without a cast
===> MIPSpro
cc-1515 cc: ERROR File = texindex.c, Line = 848
A value of type "long" cannot be assigned to an entity of type "char *".
end = buffer - linebuffer->buffer;
Well, if the compilers were more intelligent, they could have seen that
(buffer == linebuffer->buffer) was an invariant and that the resulting
difference was therefore always zero, and zero can be converted into any
pointer type. ;)
(a) to generate a new tempory file name -> O_EXCL logic applies here
(b) to regenerate the name of an older temporary file for removal
-> don't create or even open the file here, just remove it.
Discussed with salo@.
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).
[not installed by package to avoid conflicting with teTeX-bin]
. 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_toc.html).
. Most code uses ANSI C prototypes, to some extent.
. New translation: nb.
. automake 1.8.3, autoconf 2.59, gettext 0.14.1.
for a terminal library.
[in an ideal world, ncurses wouldn't even be listed, but according
to the comments in configure.ac, some Linux distributions don't have
libcurses, only libncurses, so it should stay.]
fixes a problem when building with an external gcc, since gcc, when
installed into /prefix, unconditionally searches /prefix/lib for
libraries at link time causing it to find libncurses in /prefix/lib
(the normal gcc ugliness). this leads to the runtime linker being
unable to find libncurses.
noted by gavan@, fix tested by gavan@ and myself.
to maintain conistency of the generated files as currently required
by pkgsrc.
bump PKGREVISION.
(perhaps info files will be automatically added to the PLIST in the
future?)
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:
. 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.
Package changes: fix PKGLOCALEDIR botch reported by various people. Many
thanks to Lubomir Sedlacik <salo at Xtrmntr dot org> for the patches in
PR 18616!
Changes in version 4.3:
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.
* 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 characters.
* 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.
buildlink1 -> buildlink2.
Changes:
*** IMPORTANT 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. It's important to
switch to using it as soon as possible (as 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://texinfo.org/manual/Document-Permissions.html
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.
* 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.
* 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.
