1146515Sru$Id: NEWS,v 1.103 2004/12/24 16:43:58 karl Exp $ 2146515SruThis file records noteworthy changes, very tersely. 3146515SruSee the manual for detailed information. 493139Sru 5146515Sru Copyright (C) 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 6146515Sru 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc. 793139Sru 8114472Sru Copying and distribution of this file, with or without modification, 9114472Sru are permitted in any medium without royalty provided the copyright 10114472Sru notice and this notice are preserved. 1121495Sjmacd 12100513Sru 13100513Sru*** IMPORTANT NEWS FOR ALL AUTHORS OF TEXINFO MANUALS *** 14100513Sru 15100513SruAs of version 4.2, Texinfo has a new command @copying to define the 16100513Srucopyright and copying permissions for a manual. It's important to 17100513Sruswitch to using it as soon as possible (as in your next release), 18100513Srubecause the historical method of doing copyright permissions using 19100513Sru@ifinfo failed to output copyright information in the HTML (or XML) 20100513Sruformats. The manual has detailed explanations and examples. For 21100513Sruconvenience, here's a url to one of the relevant sections: 22146515Sru http://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/manual/texinfo/html_node/Document-Permissions.html 23100513Sru 24114472Sru------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 25146515Sru 26146515Sru4.8 (31 December 2004) 27146515Sru* Language: 28146515Sru . new command @euro for the Euro currency symbol, and 29146515Sru @documentencoding has some support for ISO-8859-15. 30146515Sru . new command @abbr for general abbreviations. 31146515Sru . new command @slanted to typeset text in a slanted font, 32146515Sru and @sansserif to typeset in a sans serif font. 33146515Sru* makeinfo: 34146515Sru . An empty first argument to cross-reference commands, such as @xref, 35146515Sru causes an error. This change was made in 4.1, but not mentioned in NEWS. 36146515Sru . HTML output: 37146515Sru - <a name="..."> constructs are added for the old-style 38146515Sru conversion of node names to HTML names, so that external references 39146515Sru to them can continue to work. 40146515Sru - "g_t" prefixed to targets for node names beginning with a 41146515Sru nonletter, for XHTML compatibility. 42146515Sru . Docbook output: recognize more image formats. 43146515Sru* texi2dvi: 44146515Sru . new option --recode, to call recode for input character translation. 45146515Sru* Distribution: 46146515Sru . new convenience script texi2pdf, equivalent to texi2dvi --pdf (from tetex). 47146515Sru . some cross-compiling support in configure && make. 48146515Sru . new configure option --disable-install-warnings, for TeX. 49146515Sru distributions which do have the files installed. 50146515Sru . automake 1.9.4. 51100513Sru 52146515Sru 53146515Sru4.7 (9 April 2004) 54146515Sru* Language: 55146515Sru . new commands @float, @caption, @shortcaption, @listoffloats for 56146515Sru initial implementation of floating material (figures, tables, etc). 57146515Sru Ironically, they do not yet actually float anywhere. 58146515Sru . new commands @docbook, @ifdocbook, @ifnotdocbook for conditional Docbook. 59146515Sru . new commands @ordf{} and @ordm{} for Spanish feminine/masculine ordinals. 60146515Sru . new commands @deftypecv[x] for class variables in typed OO languages. 61146515Sru . new command @registeredsymbol for the r-in-a-circle symbol. 62146515Sru . new command @headitem to make a heading row in @multitable. 63146515Sru . new command @LaTeX{} for the LaTeX logo. 64146515Sru . new command @comma{} to avoid comma-parsing problems. 65146515Sru . @url is now a synonym for @uref; new command @indicateurl has the 66146515Sru old meaning of just displaying a url as text. 67146515Sru . @quotation now accepts an optional argument for labelling the text 68146515Sru as a `Note', `Tip', etc. 69146515Sru . @defun (et al.) heading lines can now be continued with a lone @. 70146515Sru . @acronym accepts an optional argument for the meaning of the acronym. 71146515Sru* makeinfo: 72146515Sru . New environment variable TEXINFO_OUTPUT_FORMAT determines the output 73146515Sru format at runtime, if no options are specified. 74146515Sru . New option --plaintext, equivalent to --no-headers with Info output. 75146515Sru . All outputs: 76146515Sru - sections are numbered by default. 77146515Sru . Info output: 78146515Sru - punctuation is inserted after @pxref and @ref, if needed to make 79146515Sru cross-references valid. 80146515Sru - line numbers included in index menus, so Info readers can go to 81146515Sru the exact line of an entry, not just a node. Also in plaintext output. 82146515Sru - ^@^H[index^@^H] cookie included in index menus, so Info readers 83146515Sru can handle the ] etc. commands better. 84146515Sru . HTML output: 85146515Sru - new algorithm for cross-references to other manuals, for maximum 86146515Sru portability and stability. 87146515Sru - include node name in <title> with split output. 88146515Sru - @multicolumn fractions become percentages. 89146515Sru - entities used for bullets, quotes, dashes, and others. 90146515Sru - index entries are links to the exact locations. 91146515Sru - <h4> and <h5> used for @sub and @subsubsections again. 92146515Sru - accented dotless i supported. 93146515Sru . XML output: many new tags and structure to preserve more source features. 94146515Sru . Docbook output: 95146515Sru - upgraded DTD to Docbook XML 4.2, no longer using Docbook SGML. 96146515Sru - improved translation in general, for instance: 97146515Sru - line annotations and marked quotations. 98146515Sru* texi2dvi: 99146515Sru . if available, use etex (pdfetex if --pdf) by default. 100146515Sru . if the input file includes thumbpdf.sty (for LaTeX), then run thumbpdf. 101146515Sru . more output if --debug. 102146515Sru* texinfo.tex: 103146515Sru . @defun names are now printed in typewriter (instead of bold), and 104146515Sru within the arguments, @var text is printed in slanted typewriter. 105146515Sru . @tex code is executed inside a TeX group, so that any changes must 106146515Sru be prefixed with \global (or the equivalent) to be effective. (This 107146515Sru change was actually made years ago, but never made it into the NEWS.) 108146515Sru* info: 109146515Sru . new option --where (aka --location, -w) to report where an Info file 110146515Sru would be found, instead of reading it. 111146515Sru . by default, output ANSI terminal escape sequences as-is; new option 112146515Sru --no-raw-escapes overrides this. 113146515Sru . use the newly-generated index line numbers. 114146515Sru* Distribution: 115146515Sru . new script gendocs.sh (not installed), for use by GNU maintainers in 116146515Sru getting their manuals on the GNU web site. Documented in 117146515Sru maintain.texi (http://www.gnu.org/prep/maintain/). 118146515Sru . Most code uses ANSI C prototypes, to some extent. 119146515Sru . New translation: nb. 120146515Sru . automake 1.8.3, autoconf 2.59, gettext 0.14.1. 121146515Sru 122146515Sru 123116525Sru4.6 (10 June 2003) 124116525Sru* Language: 125116525Sru . new command @/ specifies an allowable breakpoint within a line. 126116525Sru . new command @dofirstparagraphindent to control whether the first 127116525Sru paragraph following a section heading is indented. Default is to 128116525Sru omit this indentation, unlike the output up to now. 129116525Sru . new command @indent for explicitly indenting a paragraph. 130116525Sru . makeinfo writes a new construct for @image in Info output, so that 131116525Sru graphical Info browsers (such as Emacs Info under X) can display an 132116525Sru actual image. (Standalone Info ignores this, since it runs in a tty.) 133116525Sru* makeinfo: 134116525Sru . Common: 135116525Sru - search for image files in the include file search path. 136116525Sru - warns if @value is used on an undefined variable. 137116525Sru . Info output: 138116525Sru - default --split-size now 300,000 bytes, up from 50,000. 139116525Sru - with --enable-encoding and a given @documentencoding, 140116525Sru output a Local Variables section specifying that encoding, for use 141116525Sru with Emacs. 142116525Sru . HTML output: 143116525Sru - uses <h3> at the smallest. 144116525Sru - a few css <style> definitions are included to better 145116525Sru implement @format, @display, @small..., etc. 146116525Sru - new option --css-include=FILE includes FILE in the <style>. 147116525Sru - @cartouche now outputs a <table> with a border. 148116525Sru* texinfo.tex: 149116525Sru . new Polish translation txi-pl.tex. 150116525Sru* texi2dvi: 151116525Sru . --command=CMD replaces --texinfo=CMD; it inserts CMD at the first 152116525Sru line of LaTeX files now, or after the @setfilename for Texinfo files. 153116525Sru* info: 154116525Sru . RET now goes to the nearest xref (rather like Emacs Info), 155116525Sru instead of the next xref starting on the current line. 156116525Sru* Distribution: 157116525Sru . new Romanian (ro) translation. 158116525Sru . variables now declared const where appropriate. 159116525Sru . gettext 0.12.1, automake 1.7.5. 160116525Sru 161116525Sru 162114472Sru4.5 (4 February 2003) 163114472Sru* info: 164114472Sru . a bug in 4.4 prevented compressed info files from being found. 165114472Sru* Distribution: 166114472Sru . detect sys/ptem.h on Solaris. 167114472Sru 168100513Sru 169114472Sru4.4 (31 January 2003) 170114472Sru* Language: 171114472Sru . The ' (ASCII apostrophe/right quote) character is finally allowed in 172114472Sru node and anchor names. Thus, after installing this texinfo.tex, 173114472Sru existing .aux files will cause errors! Remove them and rerun TeX to 174114472Sru generate good ones. 175114472Sru . @value constructs are now expanded in the filename arguments to 176114472Sru @include and @verbatiminclude. 177114472Sru* makeinfo: 178116525Sru . @macro names may no longer include ^ or _, for the sake of math mode. 179114472Sru . bug fix: @copying text is now reflected in tag table positions; 180114472Sru before, nodes may not have been found with a long-enough @copying. 181114472Sru . bug fix: html @verb arg is quoted properly, and does not imply 182114472Sru a paragraph break. 183114472Sru* texinfo.tex: 184114472Sru . @smallexample and the like now output in a smaller font (9pt) in all 185114472Sru paper formats, not just @smallbook and @afourpaper. 186114472Sru . new translation txi-tr.tex. 187114472Sru . bug fix: <>| and other characters do not disappear when they are 188114472Sru first on a line in @verbatim. 189114472Sru* install-info: 190114472Sru . bug fix: don't translate the `* Menu' info keyword. 191114472Sru* info: 192114472Sru . CTRL-H is treated like DEL in incremental search. 193114472Sru . arrow keys once again work in isearch contexts under Solaris. 194114472Sru* infokey: 195114472Sru . use .info key bindings before defaults. 196114472Sru . allow prefix keys to be disabled. 197114472Sru* Distribution: 198114472Sru . update to GNU FDL 1.2 (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/fdl.html). 199114472Sru . getopt and other common library files updated from gnulib 200114472Sru (http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/gnulib/). 201114472Sru . autoconf 2.57, automake 1.7.2. 202116525Sru 203114472Sru 204114472Sru4.3 (14 November 2002) 205114472Sru* Language: 206114472Sru . new command @tie{} to do a real tie (unbreakable interword space). 207114472Sru* makeinfo: 208114472Sru . html output for @defun and friends now has font changes. 209114472Sru . html output has some class attributes. 210114472Sru . xml and docbook output improved in many details. 211114472Sru* texinfo.tex: 212114472Sru . new Italian translations, txi-it.tex. 213114472Sru . pdf bookmarks for unnumbered sections work. 214114472Sru . type name for @defun and friends no longer extends into margin. 215114472Sru* info: 216114472Sru . automatic-footnotes now off by default, for emacs compatibility. 217114472Sru . crash when MALLOC_CHECK_=2 fixed. 218114472Sru* install-info: 219114472Sru . new option --infodir synonym for --info-dir, for compatibility with 220114472Sru the Debian install-info. 221114472Sru . support for bzip2-compressed files. 222114472Sru* texindex: 223114472Sru . omit initial if the entire index is under one character. 224114472Sru* Distribution: 225114472Sru . development sources now available under CVS, see 226114472Sru http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/texinfo/ 227114472Sru . Turkish message translation. 228114472Sru . gettext 0.11.5, autoconf 2.54, automake 1.7.1. 229114472Sru 230114472Sru 231100513Sru4.2 (1 April 2002) 232100513Sru* Language: 233100513Sru . new command @copying to define copying permissions. See above. 234100513Sru . new conditionals @ifplaintext, @ifnotplaintext for the plain text 235100513Sru (--no-headers) output format. 236100513Sru . new command @\ to produce literal \ inside @math, since \ by itself 237100513Sru no longer works. 238100513Sru* makeinfo: 239100513Sru . emit accesskey attributes for keyboard shortcuts to menu items. 240100513Sru . @{even,every,odd}{footing,header} are ignored by makeinfo now, so 241100513Sru they no longer need to be enclosed in @iftex. 242100513Sru* texinfo.tex: 243100513Sru . bug fix for pdf-format table of contents. 244100513Sru* info: 245100513Sru . bug fixes for -R (--raw-escapes). 246100513Sru . --help shows short option names. 247100513Sru* Distribution: 248100513Sru . the doc.c, funs.h, and key.c files in info/ are no longer generated 249100513Sru at make time, to appease Automake's make distcheck. 250100513Sru . gettext 0.11.1, autoconf 2.53, automake 1.6 (with install-info kludge). 251100513Sru 252100513Sru 25393139Sru4.1 (4 March 2002) 25493139Sru* Language: 25593139Sru . new commands @verbatim and @verb for printing verbatim inserts. 25693139Sru . new command @verbatiminclude for verbatim include of files. 25793139Sru . new environment @documentdescription for defining the HTML description. 25893139Sru . new command @afivepaper for the A5 paper size. 25993139Sru* makeinfo: 26093139Sru . supports xml and docbook output. 26193139Sru . supports HTML splitting by node, which is now the default. 26293139Sru . new option --split-size to control maximum size of split info files. 263116525Sru . new option --enable-encoding to enable 26493139Sru* info: 26593139Sru . user-specified key bindings supported. 26693139Sru . ANSI escape sequences (as produced by groff) removed from man output 26793139Sru by default; use --raw-escapes to let them through if your terminal 26893139Sru supports them. 269116525Sru . RET terminates incremental search normally. 27093139Sru* texinfo.tex: 27193139Sru . @math implies @tex, so all the usual plain TeX math is supported. 27293139Sru . smaller fonts for @smallexample, in all page sizes. 27393139Sru . improvements in the PDF support. 27493139Sru* texi2dvi: 27593139Sru . new option -o to explicitly specify output filename. 27693139Sru* Distribution: 27793139Sru . switch to GNU Free Documentation License (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/). 27893139Sru . update to GNU gettext 0.11, autoconf 2.52, and automake 1.5. 27993139Sru . Danish, Swedish, and Hebrew message translations. 28093139Sru 281100513Sru 28256160Sru4.0 (28 September 1999) 28356160Sru* Language: 28456160Sru . New command @anchor for cross references to arbitrary points. 28556160Sru . New commands @documentlanguage sets the main document language, 28656160Sru and @documentencoding sets the document input encoding (although not 28756160Sru much is done yet with either). 28856160Sru . New command @pagesizes allows limited control of text area for typesetting. 28956160Sru . New command @acronym for abbreviations in all caps, such as `NASA'. 29056160Sru . New command @alias for simple command aliases. 29156160Sru . New command @definfoenclose for better control of info output. 29256160Sru . New commands @deftypeivar for typed instance variables of a class 29356160Sru and @deftypeop for typed operations of a class. 29456160Sru . New command @novalidate suppresses cross-reference checking and (in 29556160Sru TeX) auxiliary file creation. 29656160Sru . New commands @setcontentsaftertitlepage and 29756160Sru @setshortcontentsaftertitlepage to force printing the table of 29856160Sru contents after @end titlepage. Also, @contents and @shortcontents 29956160Sru themselves can now appear at the beginning of the document as 30056160Sru well as the end. 30156160Sru . New markup commands: @env (for environment variables), @command (for 30256160Sru command names), @option (for command-line options). 30356160Sru . New commands @smallformat and @smalldisplay, a la @smallexample. 30456160Sru . New command @exampleindent to set indentation of example-like 30556160Sru environments a la @paragraphindent. 30656160Sru . @uref takes an optional third argument of text to show instead of 30756160Sru (rather than in addition to) the url for info and dvi output. 30856160Sru . @footnote works in an @item for a @table. 30956160Sru* texinfo.tex: 310114472Sru . latest version always at ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/texinfo/texinfo.tex 311114472Sru (and mirrors). 31256160Sru . implements @macro. 31356160Sru . implements @paragraphindent (except asis). 31456160Sru . @emph and @i use true italic type (cmti) instead of slanted (cmsl). 31556160Sru . implements pdf output when run with pdftex. 31656160Sru . better support for internationalization via txi-??.tex files. 31793139Sru . footnotes now set in a smaller point size. 31856160Sru* makeinfo: 31956160Sru . supports HTML output with the --html option. 32056160Sru . implication of --html: @top nodes should be wrapped in @ifnottex 32156160Sru rather than @ifinfo. @ifinfo conditionals are not expanded with --html. 32256160Sru . new option --number-sections to output chapter/section numbers. 32356160Sru . dashes and quotes are not treated specially in node names. 32456160Sru . new option --commands-in-node-names to allow @-commands in node names. 32556160Sru (Not implemented in TeX, and most likely never will be.) 32656160Sru . @emph output uses _underscores_. 32756160Sru . @image looks for .png files before .jpg. 32856160Sru . only output `Making ... file' line when verbose. 32956160Sru . allow -v as synonym for --verbose. 33056160Sru . new command line options to specify which conditionals to process 33156160Sru (but --iftex is not fully implemented). 33256160Sru . warns if @var contains any of ,[](). 33356160Sru . @quote-arg implicitly done for all one-argument macros, so commas in 33456160Sru the argument text are allowed. 33556160Sru . \\ required in macro body to get single \, no other `escapes' defined. 33656160Sru* info: 33756160Sru . ISO Latin 1 characters are displayed and input as-is by default. 33856160Sru . new option --vi-keys to enable vi-like and less-like key bindings. 33956160Sru . new command S does case-sensitive searching. 34056160Sru . new commands C-x n and C-x N repeat last search, respectively, in the 34156160Sru same and in reverse direction, without prompting for the string. These 34256160Sru commands are bound to n and N under --vi-keys, like in Less. 34356160Sru . new command G menu1 menu2 ... searches for menu items from (dir), 34456160Sru as allowed on the command line. 34556160Sru . new command O (capital o, not zero) goes directly to the node that 34656160Sru describes command-line options. 34756160Sru . new command-line option --show-options causes the node which 34856160Sru describes command-line options to be the first node displayed. 34956160Sru . M-prior and M-DEL do new command info-scroll-other-window-backward. 35056160Sru . / searches like s does. 35156160Sru . If the search string includes upper-case letters, in both incremental 35256160Sru and non-incremental search, the search is case-sensitive. 35356160Sru . S searches case-sensitively even if the search string is all 35456160Sru lower-case. 35556160Sru . - makes the argument negative (so e.g. `- /' searches backward). 35656160Sru . l restores point in the window returned to. 35756160Sru . SPC/DEL do not move outside the current document. 35856160Sru . foo.info is found before foo. 35956160Sru . `info foo --index-search=bar' now searches for bar in foo's index. 36056160Sru . support for files compressed with bzip2. 36156160Sru* install-info: 36256160Sru . handles gzipped dir files. 36356160Sru . sort entries into alphabetical order. 36456160Sru . install direntries only in preceding dircategory, not in all. 36556160Sru . --delete does not require the info file to exist. 36656160Sru . --delete can handle XEmacs-style dir entries. 36756160Sru* texi2dvi: 36856160Sru . bug fixed: now uses only the @iftex and @tex parts of the source. 36956160Sru . process LaTeX source as well as Texinfo source. 37056160Sru . output PDF (using pdftex) with new option --pdf. 37156160Sru . handles --OPTION=ARG style of command line arguments. 37256160Sru . new option --batch for progress reports but no interaction. 37356160Sru . new option --clean to remove all auxiliary files. 37456160Sru . new option --quiet for silence (unless there are errors). 37556160Sru . new option -I for specifying directories for @include to search. 37656160Sru . handles LaTeX files (running BibTeX etc.). 37756160Sru* Fixes to util/gen-dir-node and util/fix-info-dir (formerly util/update-info). 37856160Sru* Distribution: 37956160Sru . Man pages included. 38056160Sru . Czech and Norwegian message translations. 38156160Sru . Various translations for texinfo.tex fixed words included. 38256160Sru . DJGPP support. 38356160Sru 38456160Sru 38542660Smarkm3.12 (3 March 1998) 38642660Smarkm* Elisp files removed, since they are only usefully distributed with Emacs. 38742660Smarkm* Restore inclusion of compile-time $(infodir) to INFOPATH. 38842660Smarkm* install-info creates a proper dir file. 38942660Smarkm* Various portability fixes. 39042660Smarkm 39156160Sru 39242660Smarkm3.11 (31 July 1997) 39342660Smarkm* New commands: 39442660Smarkm - @uref to make a reference to a url; @url now only indicates such. 39542660Smarkm - @image to include graphics (epsf for TeX). 39642660Smarkm - @deftypemethod and @deftypemethodx to document methods in strongly 39742660Smarkm typed object-oriented languages, such as C++. 39842660Smarkm - @html for raw HTML. 39942660Smarkm - @ifnothtml @ifnotinfo @ifnottex for more precise conditionals. 40042660Smarkm - @kbdinputstyle to control when @kbd uses the slanted typewriter font. 40142660Smarkm - @email takes second optional argument. 40242660Smarkm* texinfo.tex reads texinfo.cnf (if present) for site-wide TeX 40342660Smarkm configuration; for example, A4 paper sizes. 40442660Smarkm* info: 40542660Smarkm - arrow keys supported. 40642660Smarkm - trailing : in INFOPATH appends default path. 40742660Smarkm - new option --index-search for online help support. 40842660Smarkm* makeinfo: 40942660Smarkm - output files removed if errors unless (new option) --force. 41042660Smarkm - new option -P to prepend to search path. 41142660Smarkm - macro expansion file can be standard output. 41242660Smarkm* install-info creates a new dir file if necessary. 41342660Smarkm* update-info script to create a dir file from all info files. 41442660Smarkm* Elisp: texnfo-tex.el and detexinfo.el removed from the distribution; 41542660Smarkm - texnfo-tex features are now part of standard TeX & Texinfo packages; 41642660Smarkm - makeinfo --no-headers does a better job than detexinfo.el. 41742660Smarkm* Documentation: 41842660Smarkm - Updates, revisions, corrections in the manual. 41942660Smarkm - makeinfo.texi removed, as it was a copy of what was in texinfo.texi. 42042660Smarkm* gettext support in sources, French and German translations included. 42142660Smarkm* info man page removed; use the Texinfo manual. 42242660Smarkm* Automake used, other portability fixes. 42342660Smarkm 42442660Smarkm3.10 (nonexistent) 42542660Smarkm 42656160Sru 42721495Sjmacd3.9 (4 October 1996) 42821495Sjmacd* makeinfo: 42921495Sjmacd - Give a suppressible (with --no-validate) error for references 43021495Sjmacd outside of any node. 43121495Sjmacd - Keep track of multitable output correctly for split files; this 43221495Sjmacd caused nodes after the first multitable to be ``undefined''. 43321495Sjmacd* install-info: 43421495Sjmacd - Rename --infodir option to --info-dir. 43521495Sjmacd - More robust error checking to avoid various crashes. 43621495Sjmacd* configure: Include replacements for memcpy and memmove functions in 43721495Sjmacd the distribution, in case they are missing. 43821495Sjmacd 43956160Sru 44021495Sjmacd3.8 (30 September 1996) 44121495Sjmacd* Define and/or document new and/or previously existing commands: 44221495Sjmacd Accents: @" @' @, @" @= @^ @` @~ @H @d @dotaccent @dotless @ringaccent 44321495Sjmacd @tieaccent @u @ubaraccent @v 44421495Sjmacd Special characters: @AA @AE @L @O @OE @aa @ae @exclamdown @l @o @oe 44521495Sjmacd @pounds @questiondown @ss 44621495Sjmacd Special punctuation: @! @? @enddots 44721495Sjmacd dir file maintenance: @dircategory @direntry; also new program, install-info 44821495Sjmacd HTML support: @email @url @ifhtml...@end ifhtml 44921495Sjmacd Macros: @macro @unmacro 45021495Sjmacd Tables: @multitable @tab 45121495Sjmacd Hyphenation: @- @hyphenation 45221495Sjmacd Spacing: @ @<TAB> @<NEWLINE> 45321495Sjmacd Sectioning: 45421495Sjmacd @headings singleafter/doubleafter (change heading style after current page) 45521495Sjmacd @centerchap 45621495Sjmacd @setchapterstyle 45721495Sjmacd Other: 45821495Sjmacd @shorttitlepage (simple title pages) 45921495Sjmacd @detailmenu...@end detailmenu (help makeinfo parse master menus) 46021495Sjmacd* Makeinfo prefers an input file named `foo.texinfo' or `foo.texi' or 46121495Sjmacd `foo.txinfo' to just `foo' (the latter most likely being an executable). 46221495Sjmacd* Makeinfo implements @. @! @? correctly, as end-of-sentence punctuation. 46321495Sjmacd* @key marks its argument with a lozenge in TeX and <...> in Info. 46421495Sjmacd* TeX output has substantially decreased interline spacing and other 46521495Sjmacd formatting changes. 46621495Sjmacd* Remove these obsolete and never-documented commands: 46721495Sjmacd @infotop 46821495Sjmacd @infoappendix @infoappendixsec @infoappendixsubsec @infoappendixsubsubsec 46921495Sjmacd @infochapter @infosection @infosubsection @infosubsubsection 47021495Sjmacd @infounnumbered @infounnumberedsec @infounnumberedsubsec 47121495Sjmacd @infounnumberedsubsubsec 47221495Sjmacd @input 47321495Sjmacd @smallbreak @medbreak 47421495Sjmacd @overfullrule 47521495Sjmacd @br 47621495Sjmacd* Deprecate these obsolete commands, to be removed in the next release: 47721495Sjmacd @ctrl 47821495Sjmacd @infoinclude 47921495Sjmacd @iappendix @iappendixsection @iappendixsec @iappendixsubsec 48021495Sjmacd @iappendixsubsubsec 48156160Sru @ichapter @isection @isubsection @isubsubsection 48221495Sjmacd @iunnumbered @iunnumberedsec @iunnumberedsubsec @iunnumberedsubsubsec 48321495Sjmacd @setchapterstyle 48421495Sjmacd @titlespec 48521495Sjmacd 48656160Sru 48721495Sjmacd3.7 (24 December 1995) 48821495Sjmacd* Have --version print texinfo release number as well as the individual 48921495Sjmacd program version. 49021495Sjmacd* Better man page cleaning. 49121495Sjmacd* Update Elisp files from current Emacs release. 49221495Sjmacd 49356160Sru 49421495Sjmacd3.6 (21 June 1995) 49521495Sjmacd* Unmatched brace error reporting improved. 49621495Sjmacd* Missing comment terminator prevented compilation. 49721495Sjmacd 49856160Sru 49921495Sjmacd3.5 (20 June 1995) 50021495Sjmacd* Autoconf update. 50121495Sjmacd* Support for parallel makes. 50221495Sjmacd* make install does not install Elisp files. 50321495Sjmacd 50456160Sru 50521495Sjmacd3.4 (19 June 1995) 50621495Sjmacd* Handle @ifhtml in Elisp. 50721495Sjmacd* Update FSF address. 50821495Sjmacd 50956160Sru 51021495Sjmacd3.3 (15 June 1995) 51121495Sjmacd* Portability changes. 51221495Sjmacd* Compile Elisp files. 51321495Sjmacd* Don't distribute .info* files. 51421495Sjmacd 51556160Sru 51621495Sjmacd3.2 (9 June 1995) 51721495Sjmacd* Standalone Info can read Unix man pages. 51821495Sjmacd* New commands: @! @? @^ @" @enddots. 51921495Sjmacd* makeinfo -E does macro expansion (and nothing else). 52021495Sjmacd 52156160Sru 52221495Sjmacd3.1 (23 May 1993) 52356160SruJust bug fixes, see ChangeLog for full details. 52421495Sjmacd 52556160Sru 52656160Sru3.0: first release of Texinfo version 2, with many new commands. 52742660Smarkm 52842660Smarkm 52956160Sru 53042660SmarkmHere is the separate NEWS for old releases of Info: 53142660Smarkm 53242660SmarkmVersion 2.11, Sat Apr 1 09:15:21 1995 53342660Smarkm 53442660SmarkmChanges since 2.7 beta: 53542660Smarkm 53642660SmarkmAlthough the basic code remains the same, there are numerous nits 53742660Smarkmfixed, including some display bugs, and a memory leak. Some changes 53842660Smarkmthat have taken place with larger impact include the way in which the 53942660Smarkm(dir) node is built; I have added in support for "localdir" 54042660Smarkmdirectories among other things. Info files may be stored in 54142660Smarkmcompressed formats, and in their own subdirectories; menu items which 54242660Smarkmdo not explicitly name the node to which they are attached have the 54342660Smarkmmenu item name looked up as an Info file if it is not found within the 54442660Smarkmcurrent document. This means that the menu item: 54542660Smarkm 54642660Smarkm* Info:: The Info documentation reader. 54742660Smarkm 54842660Smarkmin (dir) refers to the info node "(info)Top". 54942660Smarkm 55042660SmarkmPlease see the ChangeLog and documentation for details on other 55142660Smarkmchanges. 55242660Smarkm 55342660SmarkmVersion 2.7 beta, Wed Dec 30 02:02:38 1992 55442660SmarkmVersion 2.6 beta, Tue Dec 22 03:58:07 1992 55542660SmarkmVersion 2.5 beta, Tue Dec 8 14:50:35 1992 55642660SmarkmVersion 2.4 beta, Sat Nov 28 14:34:02 1992 55742660SmarkmVersion 2.3 beta, Fri Nov 27 01:04:13 1992 55842660SmarkmVersion 2.2 beta, Tue Nov 24 09:36:08 1992 55942660SmarkmVersion 2.1 beta, Tue Nov 17 23:29:36 1992 56042660Smarkm 56142660SmarkmChanges since 2.5 beta: 56242660Smarkm 56342660SmarkmNote that versions 2.6 and 2.7 Beta were only released to a select group. 56442660Smarkm 56542660Smarkm* "info-" removed from the front of M-x commands. 56642660Smarkm 56742660Smarkm* Automatic footnote display. When you enter a node which contains 56842660Smarkm footnotes, and the variable "automatic-footnotes" is "On", Info pops 56942660Smarkm up a window containing the footnotes. Likewise, when you leave that 57042660Smarkm node, the window containing the footnotes goes away. 57142660Smarkm 57242660Smarkm* Cleaner built in documentation, and documentation functions. 57342660Smarkm 57442660Smarkm Use: 57542660Smarkm o `M-x describe-variable' to read a variable's documenation 57642660Smarkm o `M-x describe-key' to find out what a particular keystroke does. 57742660Smarkm o `M-x describe-function' to read a function's documentation. 57842660Smarkm o `M-x where-is' to find out what keys invoke a particular function. 57942660Smarkm 58042660Smarkm* Info can "tile" the displayed windows (via "M-x tile-windows"). If 58142660Smarkm the variable "automatic-tiling" is "On", then splitting a window or 58242660Smarkm deleting a window causes the remaining windows to be retiled. 58342660Smarkm 58442660Smarkm* You can save every keystroke you type in a "dribble file" by using the 58542660Smarkm `--dribble FILENAME' option. You can initially read keystrokes from an 58642660Smarkm alternate input stream with `--restore FILENAME', or by redirecting 58742660Smarkm input on the command line `info < old-dribble'. 58842660Smarkm 58942660Smarkm* New behaviour of menu items. If the label is the same as the 59042660Smarkm target node name, and the node couldn't be found in the current file, 59142660Smarkm treat the label as a file name. For example, a menu entry in "DIR" 59242660Smarkm might contain: 59342660Smarkm 59442660Smarkm * Emacs:: Cool text-editor. 59542660Smarkm 59642660Smarkm Info would not find the node "(dir)Emacs", so just plain "(emacs)" 59742660Smarkm would be tried. 59842660Smarkm 59942660Smarkm* New variable "ISO-Latin" allows you to use European machines with 60042660Smarkm 8-bit character sets. 60142660Smarkm 60242660Smarkm* Cleanups in echo area reading, and redisplay. Cleanups in handling the 60342660Smarkm window which shows possible completions. 60442660Smarkm 60542660Smarkm* Info can now read files that have been compressed. An array in filesys.c 60642660Smarkm maps extensions to programs that can decompress stdin, and write the results 60742660Smarkm to stdout. Currently, ".Z"/uncompress, ".z"/gunzip, and ".Y"/unyabba are 60842660Smarkm supported. The modeline for a compressed file shows "zz" in it. 60942660Smarkm 61042660Smarkm* There is a new variable "gc-compressed-files" which, if non-zero, says 61142660Smarkm it is okay to reclaim the file buffer space allocated to a file which 61242660Smarkm was compressed, if, and only if, that file's contents do not appear in 61342660Smarkm any history node. 61442660Smarkm 61542660Smarkm* New file `nodemenu.c' implements a few functions for manipulating 61642660Smarkm previously visited nodes. `C-x C-b' (list-visited-nodes) produces a 61742660Smarkm menu of the nodes that could be reached by info-history-node in some 61842660Smarkm window. `C-x b' (select-visited-node) is similar, but reads one of 61942660Smarkm the node names with completion. 62042660Smarkm 62142660Smarkm* Keystroke `M-r' (move_to_screen_line) allows the user to place the cursor at 62242660Smarkm the start of a specific screen line. Without a numeric argument, place the 62342660Smarkm cursor on the center line; with an arg, place the cursor on that line. 62442660Smarkm 62542660Smarkm* Interruptible display implemented. Basic display speedups and hacks. 62642660Smarkm* The message "*** Tags Out of Date ***" now means what it says. 62742660Smarkm* Index searching with `,' (info-index-next) has been improved. 62842660Smarkm* When scrolling with C-v, C-M-v, or M-v, only "Page Only" scrolling 62942660Smarkm will happen. 63042660Smarkm 63142660Smarkm* Continous scrolling (along with `]' (info-global-next) and `[' 63242660Smarkm (info-global-prev) works better. `]' and `[' accept numeric 63342660Smarkm arguments, moving that many nodes in that case. 63442660Smarkm 63542660Smarkm* `C-x w' (info-toggle-wrap) controls how lines wider than the width 63642660Smarkm of the screen are displayed. If a line is too long, a `$' is 63742660Smarkm displayed in the rightmost column of the window. 63842660Smarkm 63942660Smarkm* There are some new variables for controlling the behaviour of Info 64042660Smarkm interactively. The current list of variables is as follows: 64142660Smarkm 64242660Smarkm Variable Name Default Value Description 64342660Smarkm ------------- ------------- ----------- 64442660Smarkm `automatic-footnotes' On When "On", footnotes appear and 64542660Smarkm disappear automatically. 64642660Smarkm 64742660Smarkm `automatic-tiling' Off When "On", creating of deleting a 64842660Smarkm window resizes other windows. 64942660Smarkm 65042660Smarkm `visible-bell' Off If non-zero, try to use a visible bell. 65142660Smarkm 65242660Smarkm `errors-ring-bell' On If non-zero, errors cause a ring. 65342660Smarkm 65442660Smarkm `show-index-match' On If non-zero, the portion of the string 65542660Smarkm matched is highlighted by changing its 65642660Smarkm case. 65742660Smarkm 65842660Smarkm `scroll-behaviour' Continuous One of "Continuous", "Next Only", or 65942660Smarkm "Page Only". "Page Only" prevents you from 66042660Smarkm scrolling past the bottom or top of a node. 66142660Smarkm "Next Only" causes the Next or Prev node to 66242660Smarkm be selected when you scroll past the bottom 66342660Smarkm or top of a node. "Continous" moves 66442660Smarkm linearly through the files hierchichal 66542660Smarkm structure. 66642660Smarkm 66742660Smarkm `scroll-step' 0 Controls how scrolling is done for you when 66842660Smarkm the cursor moves out of the current window. 66942660Smarkm Non-zero means it is the number of lines 67042660Smarkm you would like the screen to shift. A 67142660Smarkm value of 0 means to center the line 67242660Smarkm containing the cursor in the window. 67342660Smarkm 67442660Smarkm `gc-compressed-files' Off If non-zero means it is okay to reclaim the 67542660Smarkm file buffer space allocated to a file which 67642660Smarkm was compressed, if, and only if, that 67742660Smarkm file's contents do not appear in the node 67842660Smarkm list of any window. 67942660Smarkm 68042660Smarkm `ISO-Latin' Off Non-zero means that you are using an ISO 68142660Smarkm Latin character set. By default, standard 68242660Smarkm ASCII characters are assumed. 68342660Smarkm________________________________________ 68442660SmarkmThis release of Info is version 2.5 beta. 68542660Smarkm 68642660SmarkmChanges since 2.4 beta: 68742660Smarkm 68842660Smarkm* Index (i) and (,) commands fully implemented. 68942660Smarkm* "configure" script now shipped with Info. 69042660Smarkm* New function "set-variable" allows users to set various variables. 69142660Smarkm* User-settable behaviour on end or beginning of node scrolling. This 69242660Smarkm supercedes the SPC and DEL changes in 2.3 beta. 69342660Smarkm 69442660Smarkm________________________________________ 69542660SmarkmThis release of Info is version 2.4 beta. 69642660Smarkm 69742660SmarkmChanges since 2.3 beta: 69842660Smarkm 69942660Smarkm* info-last-node now means move to the last node of this info file. 70042660Smarkm* info-history-node means move backwards through this window's node history. 70142660Smarkm* info-first-node moves to the first node in the Info file. This node is 70242660Smarkm not necessarily "Top"! 70342660Smarkm* SPC and DEL can select the Next or Prev node after printing an informative 70442660Smarkm message when pressed at the end/beg of a node. 70542660Smarkm 70642660Smarkm---------------------------------------- 70742660SmarkmThis release of Info is version 2.3 beta. 70842660Smarkm 70942660SmarkmChanges since 2.2 beta: 71042660Smarkm 71142660Smarkm* M-x command lines if NAMED_COMMANDS is #defined. Variable in Makefile. 71242660Smarkm* Screen height changes made quite robust. 71342660Smarkm* Interactive function "set-screen-height" implements user height changes. 71442660Smarkm* Scrolling on some terminals is faster now. 71542660Smarkm* C-l with numeric arguement is fixed. 71642660Smarkm 71742660Smarkm---------------------------------------- 71842660SmarkmThis release of Info is version 2.2 beta. 71942660Smarkm 72042660SmarkmChanges since 2.0: 72142660Smarkm 72242660Smarkm* C-g can now interrupt multi-file searches. 72342660Smarkm* Incremental search is fully implemented. 72442660Smarkm* Loading large tag tables is much faster now. 72542660Smarkm* makedoc.c replaces shell script, speeding incremental builds. 72642660Smarkm* Scrolling in redisplay is implemented. 72742660Smarkm* Recursive uses of the echo area made more robust. 72842660Smarkm* Garbage collection of unreferenced nodes. 729