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diff --git a/contrib/texinfo/NEWS b/contrib/texinfo/NEWS index a9d80d8..18423d5 100644 --- a/contrib/texinfo/NEWS +++ b/contrib/texinfo/NEWS @@ -1,11 +1,113 @@ This file records noteworthy changes. +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.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. +* 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. @@ -40,6 +142,7 @@ This file records noteworthy changes. 3.10 (nonexistent) + 3.9 (4 October 1996) * makeinfo: - Give a suppressible (with --no-validate) error for references @@ -52,6 +155,7 @@ This file records noteworthy changes. * 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 @@ -93,46 +197,55 @@ This file records noteworthy changes. @infoinclude @iappendix @iappendixsection @iappendixsec @iappendixsubsec @iappendixsubsubsec - @ichapter @isection @isubsection @isubsubsection + @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. +Just bug fixes, see ChangeLog for full details. -texinfo-3.0: first release of Texinfo version 2, with many new commands. + +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 @@ -332,4 +445,3 @@ Changes since 2.0: * Scrolling in redisplay is implemented. * Recursive uses of the echo area made more robust. * Garbage collection of unreferenced nodes. - |
