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diff --git a/contrib/texinfo/NEWS b/contrib/texinfo/NEWS index 5a1bd8c..76d5a74 100644 --- a/contrib/texinfo/NEWS +++ b/contrib/texinfo/NEWS @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ Copyright (C) 1992, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 2000, 01, 02 -Free Software Foundation. +Free Software Foundation, Inc. Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.1 or @@ -8,6 +8,43 @@ Invariant Sections, with no Front-Cover Texts, and with no Back-Cover Texts. This file records noteworthy 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. @@ -34,6 +71,7 @@ This file records noteworthy changes. . 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. |
