[2617] | 1 | $Id: NEWS,v 1.103 2004/12/24 16:43:58 karl Exp $
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| 2 | This file records noteworthy changes, very tersely.
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| 3 | See the manual for detailed information.
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| 4 |
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| 5 | Copyright (C) 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000,
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| 6 | 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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| 7 |
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| 8 | Copying and distribution of this file, with or without modification,
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| 9 | are permitted in any medium without royalty provided the copyright
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| 10 | notice and this notice are preserved.
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| 11 |
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| 12 |
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| 13 | *** IMPORTANT NEWS FOR ALL AUTHORS OF TEXINFO MANUALS ***
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| 14 |
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| 15 | As of version 4.2, Texinfo has a new command @copying to define the
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| 16 | copyright and copying permissions for a manual. It's important to
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| 17 | switch to using it as soon as possible (as in your next release),
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| 18 | because the historical method of doing copyright permissions using
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| 19 | @ifinfo failed to output copyright information in the HTML (or XML)
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| 20 | formats. The manual has detailed explanations and examples. For
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| 21 | convenience, here's a url to one of the relevant sections:
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| 22 | http://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/manual/texinfo/html_node/Document-Permissions.html
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| 23 |
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| 24 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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| 25 | |
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| 26 |
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| 27 | 4.8 (31 December 2004)
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| 28 | * Language:
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| 29 | . new command @euro for the Euro currency symbol, and
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| 30 | @documentencoding has some support for ISO-8859-15.
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| 31 | . new command @abbr for general abbreviations.
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| 32 | . new command @slanted to typeset text in a slanted font,
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| 33 | and @sansserif to typeset in a sans serif font.
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| 34 | * makeinfo:
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| 35 | . An empty first argument to cross-reference commands, such as @xref,
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| 36 | causes an error. This change was made in 4.1, but not mentioned in NEWS.
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| 37 | . HTML output:
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| 38 | - <a name="..."> constructs are added for the old-style
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| 39 | conversion of node names to HTML names, so that external references
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| 40 | to them can continue to work.
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| 41 | - "g_t" prefixed to targets for node names beginning with a
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| 42 | nonletter, for XHTML compatibility.
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| 43 | . Docbook output: recognize more image formats.
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| 44 | * texi2dvi:
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| 45 | . new option --recode, to call recode for input character translation.
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| 46 | * Distribution:
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| 47 | . new convenience script texi2pdf, equivalent to texi2dvi --pdf (from tetex).
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| 48 | . some cross-compiling support in configure && make.
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| 49 | . new configure option --disable-install-warnings, for TeX.
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| 50 | distributions which do have the files installed.
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| 51 | . automake 1.9.4.
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| 52 |
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| 53 | |
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| 54 |
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| 55 | 4.7 (9 April 2004)
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| 56 | * Language:
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| 57 | . new commands @float, @caption, @shortcaption, @listoffloats for
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| 58 | initial implementation of floating material (figures, tables, etc).
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| 59 | Ironically, they do not yet actually float anywhere.
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| 60 | . new commands @docbook, @ifdocbook, @ifnotdocbook for conditional Docbook.
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| 61 | . new commands @ordf{} and @ordm{} for Spanish feminine/masculine ordinals.
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| 62 | . new commands @deftypecv[x] for class variables in typed OO languages.
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| 63 | . new command @registeredsymbol for the r-in-a-circle symbol.
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| 64 | . new command @headitem to make a heading row in @multitable.
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| 65 | . new command @LaTeX{} for the LaTeX logo.
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| 66 | . new command @comma{} to avoid comma-parsing problems.
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| 67 | . @url is now a synonym for @uref; new command @indicateurl has the
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| 68 | old meaning of just displaying a url as text.
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| 69 | . @quotation now accepts an optional argument for labelling the text
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| 70 | as a `Note', `Tip', etc.
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| 71 | . @defun (et al.) heading lines can now be continued with a lone @.
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| 72 | . @acronym accepts an optional argument for the meaning of the acronym.
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| 73 | * makeinfo:
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| 74 | . New environment variable TEXINFO_OUTPUT_FORMAT determines the output
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| 75 | format at runtime, if no options are specified.
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| 76 | . New option --plaintext, equivalent to --no-headers with Info output.
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| 77 | . All outputs:
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| 78 | - sections are numbered by default.
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| 79 | . Info output:
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| 80 | - punctuation is inserted after @pxref and @ref, if needed to make
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| 81 | cross-references valid.
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| 82 | - line numbers included in index menus, so Info readers can go to
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| 83 | the exact line of an entry, not just a node. Also in plaintext output.
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| 84 | - ^@^H[index^@^H] cookie included in index menus, so Info readers
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| 85 | can handle the ] etc. commands better.
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| 86 | . HTML output:
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| 87 | - new algorithm for cross-references to other manuals, for maximum
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| 88 | portability and stability.
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| 89 | - include node name in <title> with split output.
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| 90 | - @multicolumn fractions become percentages.
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| 91 | - entities used for bullets, quotes, dashes, and others.
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| 92 | - index entries are links to the exact locations.
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| 93 | - <h4> and <h5> used for @sub and @subsubsections again.
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| 94 | - accented dotless i supported.
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| 95 | . XML output: many new tags and structure to preserve more source features.
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| 96 | . Docbook output:
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| 97 | - upgraded DTD to Docbook XML 4.2, no longer using Docbook SGML.
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| 98 | - improved translation in general, for instance:
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| 99 | - line annotations and marked quotations.
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| 100 | * texi2dvi:
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| 101 | . if available, use etex (pdfetex if --pdf) by default.
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| 102 | . if the input file includes thumbpdf.sty (for LaTeX), then run thumbpdf.
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| 103 | . more output if --debug.
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| 104 | * texinfo.tex:
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| 105 | . @defun names are now printed in typewriter (instead of bold), and
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| 106 | within the arguments, @var text is printed in slanted typewriter.
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| 107 | . @tex code is executed inside a TeX group, so that any changes must
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| 108 | be prefixed with \global (or the equivalent) to be effective. (This
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| 109 | change was actually made years ago, but never made it into the NEWS.)
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| 110 | * info:
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| 111 | . new option --where (aka --location, -w) to report where an Info file
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| 112 | would be found, instead of reading it.
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| 113 | . by default, output ANSI terminal escape sequences as-is; new option
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| 114 | --no-raw-escapes overrides this.
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| 115 | . use the newly-generated index line numbers.
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| 116 | * Distribution:
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| 117 | . new script gendocs.sh (not installed), for use by GNU maintainers in
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| 118 | getting their manuals on the GNU web site. Documented in
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| 119 | maintain.texi (http://www.gnu.org/prep/maintain/).
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| 120 | . Most code uses ANSI C prototypes, to some extent.
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| 121 | . New translation: nb.
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| 122 | . automake 1.8.3, autoconf 2.59, gettext 0.14.1.
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| 123 |
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| 124 | |
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| 125 |
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| 126 | 4.6 (10 June 2003)
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| 127 | * Language:
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| 128 | . new command @/ specifies an allowable breakpoint within a line.
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| 129 | . new command @dofirstparagraphindent to control whether the first
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| 130 | paragraph following a section heading is indented. Default is to
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| 131 | omit this indentation, unlike the output up to now.
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| 132 | . new command @indent for explicitly indenting a paragraph.
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| 133 | . makeinfo writes a new construct for @image in Info output, so that
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| 134 | graphical Info browsers (such as Emacs Info under X) can display an
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| 135 | actual image. (Standalone Info ignores this, since it runs in a tty.)
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| 136 | * makeinfo:
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| 137 | . Common:
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| 138 | - search for image files in the include file search path.
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| 139 | - warns if @value is used on an undefined variable.
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| 140 | . Info output:
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| 141 | - default --split-size now 300,000 bytes, up from 50,000.
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| 142 | - with --enable-encoding and a given @documentencoding,
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| 143 | output a Local Variables section specifying that encoding, for use
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| 144 | with Emacs.
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| 145 | . HTML output:
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| 146 | - uses <h3> at the smallest.
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| 147 | - a few css <style> definitions are included to better
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| 148 | implement @format, @display, @small..., etc.
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| 149 | - new option --css-include=FILE includes FILE in the <style>.
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| 150 | - @cartouche now outputs a <table> with a border.
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| 151 | * texinfo.tex:
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| 152 | . new Polish translation txi-pl.tex.
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| 153 | * texi2dvi:
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| 154 | . --command=CMD replaces --texinfo=CMD; it inserts CMD at the first
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| 155 | line of LaTeX files now, or after the @setfilename for Texinfo files.
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| 156 | * info:
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| 157 | . RET now goes to the nearest xref (rather like Emacs Info),
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| 158 | instead of the next xref starting on the current line.
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| 159 | * Distribution:
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| 160 | . new Romanian (ro) translation.
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| 161 | . variables now declared const where appropriate.
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| 162 | . gettext 0.12.1, automake 1.7.5.
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| 163 |
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| 164 | |
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| 165 |
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| 166 | 4.5 (4 February 2003)
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| 167 | * info:
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| 168 | . a bug in 4.4 prevented compressed info files from being found.
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| 169 | * Distribution:
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| 170 | . detect sys/ptem.h on Solaris.
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| 171 |
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| 172 | |
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| 173 |
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| 174 | 4.4 (31 January 2003)
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| 175 | * Language:
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| 176 | . The ' (ASCII apostrophe/right quote) character is finally allowed in
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| 177 | node and anchor names. Thus, after installing this texinfo.tex,
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| 178 | existing .aux files will cause errors! Remove them and rerun TeX to
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| 179 | generate good ones.
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| 180 | . @value constructs are now expanded in the filename arguments to
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| 181 | @include and @verbatiminclude.
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| 182 | * makeinfo:
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| 183 | . @macro names may no longer include ^ or _, for the sake of math mode.
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| 184 | . bug fix: @copying text is now reflected in tag table positions;
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| 185 | before, nodes may not have been found with a long-enough @copying.
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| 186 | . bug fix: html @verb arg is quoted properly, and does not imply
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| 187 | a paragraph break.
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| 188 | * texinfo.tex:
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| 189 | . @smallexample and the like now output in a smaller font (9pt) in all
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| 190 | paper formats, not just @smallbook and @afourpaper.
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| 191 | . new translation txi-tr.tex.
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| 192 | . bug fix: <>| and other characters do not disappear when they are
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| 193 | first on a line in @verbatim.
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| 194 | * install-info:
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| 195 | . bug fix: don't translate the `* Menu' info keyword.
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| 196 | * info:
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| 197 | . CTRL-H is treated like DEL in incremental search.
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| 198 | . arrow keys once again work in isearch contexts under Solaris.
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| 199 | * infokey:
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| 200 | . use .info key bindings before defaults.
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| 201 | . allow prefix keys to be disabled.
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| 202 | * Distribution:
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| 203 | . update to GNU FDL 1.2 (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/fdl.html).
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| 204 | . getopt and other common library files updated from gnulib
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| 205 | (http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/gnulib/).
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| 206 | . autoconf 2.57, automake 1.7.2.
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| 207 |
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| 208 | |
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| 209 |
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| 210 | 4.3 (14 November 2002)
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| 211 | * Language:
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| 212 | . new command @tie{} to do a real tie (unbreakable interword space).
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| 213 | * makeinfo:
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| 214 | . html output for @defun and friends now has font changes.
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| 215 | . html output has some class attributes.
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| 216 | . xml and docbook output improved in many details.
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| 217 | * texinfo.tex:
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| 218 | . new Italian translations, txi-it.tex.
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| 219 | . pdf bookmarks for unnumbered sections work.
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| 220 | . type name for @defun and friends no longer extends into margin.
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| 221 | * info:
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| 222 | . automatic-footnotes now off by default, for emacs compatibility.
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| 223 | . crash when MALLOC_CHECK_=2 fixed.
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| 224 | * install-info:
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| 225 | . new option --infodir synonym for --info-dir, for compatibility with
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| 226 | the Debian install-info.
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| 227 | . support for bzip2-compressed files.
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| 228 | * texindex:
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| 229 | . omit initial if the entire index is under one character.
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| 230 | * Distribution:
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| 231 | . development sources now available under CVS, see
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| 232 | http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/texinfo/
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| 233 | . Turkish message translation.
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| 234 | . gettext 0.11.5, autoconf 2.54, automake 1.7.1.
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| 235 |
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| 237 |
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| 238 | 4.2 (1 April 2002)
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| 239 | * Language:
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| 240 | . new command @copying to define copying permissions. See above.
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| 241 | . new conditionals @ifplaintext, @ifnotplaintext for the plain text
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| 242 | (--no-headers) output format.
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| 243 | . new command @\ to produce literal \ inside @math, since \ by itself
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| 244 | no longer works.
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| 245 | * makeinfo:
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| 246 | . emit accesskey attributes for keyboard shortcuts to menu items.
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| 247 | . @{even,every,odd}{footing,header} are ignored by makeinfo now, so
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| 248 | they no longer need to be enclosed in @iftex.
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| 249 | * texinfo.tex:
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| 250 | . bug fix for pdf-format table of contents.
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| 251 | * info:
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| 252 | . bug fixes for -R (--raw-escapes).
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| 253 | . --help shows short option names.
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| 254 | * Distribution:
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| 255 | . the doc.c, funs.h, and key.c files in info/ are no longer generated
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| 256 | at make time, to appease Automake's make distcheck.
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| 257 | . gettext 0.11.1, autoconf 2.53, automake 1.6 (with install-info kludge).
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| 258 |
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| 259 | |
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| 260 |
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| 261 | 4.1 (4 March 2002)
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| 262 | * Language:
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| 263 | . new commands @verbatim and @verb for printing verbatim inserts.
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| 264 | . new command @verbatiminclude for verbatim include of files.
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| 265 | . new environment @documentdescription for defining the HTML description.
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| 266 | . new command @afivepaper for the A5 paper size.
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| 267 | * makeinfo:
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| 268 | . supports xml and docbook output.
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| 269 | . supports HTML splitting by node, which is now the default.
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| 270 | . new option --split-size to control maximum size of split info files.
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| 271 | . new option --enable-encoding to enable
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| 272 | * info:
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| 273 | . user-specified key bindings supported.
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| 274 | . ANSI escape sequences (as produced by groff) removed from man output
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| 275 | by default; use --raw-escapes to let them through if your terminal
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| 276 | supports them.
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| 277 | . RET terminates incremental search normally.
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| 278 | * texinfo.tex:
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| 279 | . @math implies @tex, so all the usual plain TeX math is supported.
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| 280 | . smaller fonts for @smallexample, in all page sizes.
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| 281 | . improvements in the PDF support.
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| 282 | * texi2dvi:
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| 283 | . new option -o to explicitly specify output filename.
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| 284 | * Distribution:
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| 285 | . switch to GNU Free Documentation License (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/).
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| 286 | . update to GNU gettext 0.11, autoconf 2.52, and automake 1.5.
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| 287 | . Danish, Swedish, and Hebrew message translations.
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| 288 |
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| 289 | |
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| 290 |
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| 291 | 4.0 (28 September 1999)
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| 292 | * Language:
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| 293 | . New command @anchor for cross references to arbitrary points.
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| 294 | . New commands @documentlanguage sets the main document language,
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| 295 | and @documentencoding sets the document input encoding (although not
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| 296 | much is done yet with either).
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| 297 | . New command @pagesizes allows limited control of text area for typesetting.
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| 298 | . New command @acronym for abbreviations in all caps, such as `NASA'.
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| 299 | . New command @alias for simple command aliases.
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| 300 | . New command @definfoenclose for better control of info output.
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| 301 | . New commands @deftypeivar for typed instance variables of a class
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| 302 | and @deftypeop for typed operations of a class.
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| 303 | . New command @novalidate suppresses cross-reference checking and (in
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| 304 | TeX) auxiliary file creation.
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| 305 | . New commands @setcontentsaftertitlepage and
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| 306 | @setshortcontentsaftertitlepage to force printing the table of
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| 307 | contents after @end titlepage. Also, @contents and @shortcontents
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| 308 | themselves can now appear at the beginning of the document as
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| 309 | well as the end.
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| 310 | . New markup commands: @env (for environment variables), @command (for
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| 311 | command names), @option (for command-line options).
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| 312 | . New commands @smallformat and @smalldisplay, a la @smallexample.
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| 313 | . New command @exampleindent to set indentation of example-like
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| 314 | environments a la @paragraphindent.
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| 315 | . @uref takes an optional third argument of text to show instead of
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| 316 | (rather than in addition to) the url for info and dvi output.
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| 317 | . @footnote works in an @item for a @table.
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| 318 | * texinfo.tex:
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| 319 | . latest version always at ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/texinfo/texinfo.tex
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| 320 | (and mirrors).
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| 321 | . implements @macro.
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| 322 | . implements @paragraphindent (except asis).
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| 323 | . @emph and @i use true italic type (cmti) instead of slanted (cmsl).
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| 324 | . implements pdf output when run with pdftex.
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| 325 | . better support for internationalization via txi-??.tex files.
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| 326 | . footnotes now set in a smaller point size.
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| 327 | * makeinfo:
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| 328 | . supports HTML output with the --html option.
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| 329 | . implication of --html: @top nodes should be wrapped in @ifnottex
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| 330 | rather than @ifinfo. @ifinfo conditionals are not expanded with --html.
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| 331 | . new option --number-sections to output chapter/section numbers.
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| 332 | . dashes and quotes are not treated specially in node names.
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| 333 | . new option --commands-in-node-names to allow @-commands in node names.
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| 334 | (Not implemented in TeX, and most likely never will be.)
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| 335 | . @emph output uses _underscores_.
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| 336 | . @image looks for .png files before .jpg.
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| 337 | . only output `Making ... file' line when verbose.
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| 338 | . allow -v as synonym for --verbose.
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| 339 | . new command line options to specify which conditionals to process
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| 340 | (but --iftex is not fully implemented).
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| 341 | . warns if @var contains any of ,[]().
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| 342 | . @quote-arg implicitly done for all one-argument macros, so commas in
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| 343 | the argument text are allowed.
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| 344 | . \\ required in macro body to get single \, no other `escapes' defined.
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| 345 | * info:
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| 346 | . ISO Latin 1 characters are displayed and input as-is by default.
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| 347 | . new option --vi-keys to enable vi-like and less-like key bindings.
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| 348 | . new command S does case-sensitive searching.
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| 349 | . new commands C-x n and C-x N repeat last search, respectively, in the
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| 350 | same and in reverse direction, without prompting for the string. These
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| 351 | commands are bound to n and N under --vi-keys, like in Less.
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| 352 | . new command G menu1 menu2 ... searches for menu items from (dir),
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| 353 | as allowed on the command line.
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| 354 | . new command O (capital o, not zero) goes directly to the node that
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| 355 | describes command-line options.
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| 356 | . new command-line option --show-options causes the node which
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| 357 | describes command-line options to be the first node displayed.
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| 358 | . M-prior and M-DEL do new command info-scroll-other-window-backward.
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| 359 | . / searches like s does.
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| 360 | . If the search string includes upper-case letters, in both incremental
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| 361 | and non-incremental search, the search is case-sensitive.
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| 362 | . S searches case-sensitively even if the search string is all
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| 363 | lower-case.
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| 364 | . - makes the argument negative (so e.g. `- /' searches backward).
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| 365 | . l restores point in the window returned to.
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| 366 | . SPC/DEL do not move outside the current document.
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| 367 | . foo.info is found before foo.
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| 368 | . `info foo --index-search=bar' now searches for bar in foo's index.
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| 369 | . support for files compressed with bzip2.
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| 370 | * install-info:
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| 371 | . handles gzipped dir files.
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| 372 | . sort entries into alphabetical order.
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| 373 | . install direntries only in preceding dircategory, not in all.
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| 374 | . --delete does not require the info file to exist.
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| 375 | . --delete can handle XEmacs-style dir entries.
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| 376 | * texi2dvi:
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| 377 | . bug fixed: now uses only the @iftex and @tex parts of the source.
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| 378 | . process LaTeX source as well as Texinfo source.
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| 379 | . output PDF (using pdftex) with new option --pdf.
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| 380 | . handles --OPTION=ARG style of command line arguments.
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| 381 | . new option --batch for progress reports but no interaction.
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| 382 | . new option --clean to remove all auxiliary files.
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| 383 | . new option --quiet for silence (unless there are errors).
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| 384 | . new option -I for specifying directories for @include to search.
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| 385 | . handles LaTeX files (running BibTeX etc.).
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| 386 | * Fixes to util/gen-dir-node and util/fix-info-dir (formerly util/update-info).
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| 387 | * Distribution:
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| 388 | . Man pages included.
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| 389 | . Czech and Norwegian message translations.
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| 390 | . Various translations for texinfo.tex fixed words included.
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| 391 | . DJGPP support.
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| 392 |
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| 393 | |
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| 394 |
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| 395 | 3.12 (3 March 1998)
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| 396 | * Elisp files removed, since they are only usefully distributed with Emacs.
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| 397 | * Restore inclusion of compile-time $(infodir) to INFOPATH.
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| 398 | * install-info creates a proper dir file.
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| 399 | * Various portability fixes.
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| 400 |
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| 401 | |
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| 402 |
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| 403 | 3.11 (31 July 1997)
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| 404 | * New commands:
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| 405 | - @uref to make a reference to a url; @url now only indicates such.
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| 406 | - @image to include graphics (epsf for TeX).
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| 407 | - @deftypemethod and @deftypemethodx to document methods in strongly
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| 408 | typed object-oriented languages, such as C++.
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| 409 | - @html for raw HTML.
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| 410 | - @ifnothtml @ifnotinfo @ifnottex for more precise conditionals.
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| 411 | - @kbdinputstyle to control when @kbd uses the slanted typewriter font.
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| 412 | - @email takes second optional argument.
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| 413 | * texinfo.tex reads texinfo.cnf (if present) for site-wide TeX
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| 414 | configuration; for example, A4 paper sizes.
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| 415 | * info:
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| 416 | - arrow keys supported.
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| 417 | - trailing : in INFOPATH appends default path.
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| 418 | - new option --index-search for online help support.
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| 419 | * makeinfo:
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| 420 | - output files removed if errors unless (new option) --force.
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| 421 | - new option -P to prepend to search path.
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| 422 | - macro expansion file can be standard output.
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| 423 | * install-info creates a new dir file if necessary.
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| 424 | * update-info script to create a dir file from all info files.
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| 425 | * Elisp: texnfo-tex.el and detexinfo.el removed from the distribution;
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| 426 | - texnfo-tex features are now part of standard TeX & Texinfo packages;
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| 427 | - makeinfo --no-headers does a better job than detexinfo.el.
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| 428 | * Documentation:
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| 429 | - Updates, revisions, corrections in the manual.
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| 430 | - makeinfo.texi removed, as it was a copy of what was in texinfo.texi.
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| 431 | * gettext support in sources, French and German translations included.
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| 432 | * info man page removed; use the Texinfo manual.
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| 433 | * Automake used, other portability fixes.
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| 434 |
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| 435 | 3.10 (nonexistent)
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| 436 |
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| 437 | |
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| 438 |
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| 439 | 3.9 (4 October 1996)
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| 440 | * makeinfo:
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| 441 | - Give a suppressible (with --no-validate) error for references
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| 442 | outside of any node.
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| 443 | - Keep track of multitable output correctly for split files; this
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| 444 | caused nodes after the first multitable to be ``undefined''.
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| 445 | * install-info:
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| 446 | - Rename --infodir option to --info-dir.
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| 447 | - More robust error checking to avoid various crashes.
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| 448 | * configure: Include replacements for memcpy and memmove functions in
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| 449 | the distribution, in case they are missing.
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| 450 |
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| 451 | |
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| 452 |
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| 453 | 3.8 (30 September 1996)
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| 454 | * Define and/or document new and/or previously existing commands:
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| 455 | Accents: @" @' @, @" @= @^ @` @~ @H @d @dotaccent @dotless @ringaccent
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| 456 | @tieaccent @u @ubaraccent @v
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| 457 | Special characters: @AA @AE @L @O @OE @aa @ae @exclamdown @l @o @oe
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| 458 | @pounds @questiondown @ss
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| 459 | Special punctuation: @! @? @enddots
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| 460 | dir file maintenance: @dircategory @direntry; also new program, install-info
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| 461 | HTML support: @email @url @ifhtml...@end ifhtml
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| 462 | Macros: @macro @unmacro
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| 463 | Tables: @multitable @tab
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| 464 | Hyphenation: @- @hyphenation
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| 465 | Spacing: @ @<TAB> @<NEWLINE>
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| 466 | Sectioning:
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| 467 | @headings singleafter/doubleafter (change heading style after current page)
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| 468 | @centerchap
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| 469 | @setchapterstyle
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| 470 | Other:
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| 471 | @shorttitlepage (simple title pages)
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| 472 | @detailmenu...@end detailmenu (help makeinfo parse master menus)
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| 473 | * Makeinfo prefers an input file named `foo.texinfo' or `foo.texi' or
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| 474 | `foo.txinfo' to just `foo' (the latter most likely being an executable).
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| 475 | * Makeinfo implements @. @! @? correctly, as end-of-sentence punctuation.
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| 476 | * @key marks its argument with a lozenge in TeX and <...> in Info.
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| 477 | * TeX output has substantially decreased interline spacing and other
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| 478 | formatting changes.
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| 479 | * Remove these obsolete and never-documented commands:
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| 480 | @infotop
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| 481 | @infoappendix @infoappendixsec @infoappendixsubsec @infoappendixsubsubsec
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| 482 | @infochapter @infosection @infosubsection @infosubsubsection
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| 483 | @infounnumbered @infounnumberedsec @infounnumberedsubsec
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| 484 | @infounnumberedsubsubsec
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| 485 | @input
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| 486 | @smallbreak @medbreak
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| 487 | @overfullrule
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| 488 | @br
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| 489 | * Deprecate these obsolete commands, to be removed in the next release:
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| 490 | @ctrl
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| 491 | @infoinclude
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| 492 | @iappendix @iappendixsection @iappendixsec @iappendixsubsec
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| 493 | @iappendixsubsubsec
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| 494 | @ichapter @isection @isubsection @isubsubsection
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| 495 | @iunnumbered @iunnumberedsec @iunnumberedsubsec @iunnumberedsubsubsec
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| 496 | @setchapterstyle
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| 497 | @titlespec
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| 498 |
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| 499 | |
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| 500 |
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| 501 | 3.7 (24 December 1995)
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| 502 | * Have --version print texinfo release number as well as the individual
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| 503 | program version.
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| 504 | * Better man page cleaning.
|
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| 505 | * Update Elisp files from current Emacs release.
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| 506 |
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| 507 | |
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| 508 |
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| 509 | 3.6 (21 June 1995)
|
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| 510 | * Unmatched brace error reporting improved.
|
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| 511 | * Missing comment terminator prevented compilation.
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| 512 |
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| 513 | |
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| 514 |
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| 515 | 3.5 (20 June 1995)
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| 516 | * Autoconf update.
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| 517 | * Support for parallel makes.
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| 518 | * make install does not install Elisp files.
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| 519 |
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| 520 | |
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| 521 |
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| 522 | 3.4 (19 June 1995)
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| 523 | * Handle @ifhtml in Elisp.
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| 524 | * Update FSF address.
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| 525 |
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| 526 | |
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| 527 |
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| 528 | 3.3 (15 June 1995)
|
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| 529 | * Portability changes.
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| 530 | * Compile Elisp files.
|
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| 531 | * Don't distribute .info* files.
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| 532 |
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| 533 | |
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| 534 |
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| 535 | 3.2 (9 June 1995)
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| 536 | * Standalone Info can read Unix man pages.
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| 537 | * New commands: @! @? @^ @" @enddots.
|
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| 538 | * makeinfo -E does macro expansion (and nothing else).
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| 539 |
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| 540 | |
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| 541 |
|
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| 542 | 3.1 (23 May 1993)
|
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| 543 | Just bug fixes, see ChangeLog for full details.
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| 544 |
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| 545 | |
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| 546 |
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| 547 | 3.0: first release of Texinfo version 2, with many new commands.
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| 548 |
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| 549 |
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| 550 | |
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| 551 |
|
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| 552 | Here is the separate NEWS for old releases of Info:
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| 553 |
|
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| 554 | Version 2.11, Sat Apr 1 09:15:21 1995
|
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| 555 |
|
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| 556 | Changes since 2.7 beta:
|
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| 557 |
|
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| 558 | Although the basic code remains the same, there are numerous nits
|
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| 559 | fixed, including some display bugs, and a memory leak. Some changes
|
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| 560 | that have taken place with larger impact include the way in which the
|
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| 561 | (dir) node is built; I have added in support for "localdir"
|
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| 562 | directories among other things. Info files may be stored in
|
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| 563 | compressed formats, and in their own subdirectories; menu items which
|
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| 564 | do not explicitly name the node to which they are attached have the
|
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| 565 | menu item name looked up as an Info file if it is not found within the
|
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| 566 | current document. This means that the menu item:
|
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| 567 |
|
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| 568 | * Info:: The Info documentation reader.
|
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| 569 |
|
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| 570 | in (dir) refers to the info node "(info)Top".
|
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| 571 |
|
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| 572 | Please see the ChangeLog and documentation for details on other
|
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| 573 | changes.
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| 574 |
|
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| 575 | Version 2.7 beta, Wed Dec 30 02:02:38 1992
|
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| 576 | Version 2.6 beta, Tue Dec 22 03:58:07 1992
|
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| 577 | Version 2.5 beta, Tue Dec 8 14:50:35 1992
|
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| 578 | Version 2.4 beta, Sat Nov 28 14:34:02 1992
|
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| 579 | Version 2.3 beta, Fri Nov 27 01:04:13 1992
|
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| 580 | Version 2.2 beta, Tue Nov 24 09:36:08 1992
|
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| 581 | Version 2.1 beta, Tue Nov 17 23:29:36 1992
|
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| 582 |
|
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| 583 | Changes since 2.5 beta:
|
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| 584 |
|
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| 585 | Note that versions 2.6 and 2.7 Beta were only released to a select group.
|
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| 586 |
|
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| 587 | * "info-" removed from the front of M-x commands.
|
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| 588 |
|
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| 589 | * Automatic footnote display. When you enter a node which contains
|
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| 590 | footnotes, and the variable "automatic-footnotes" is "On", Info pops
|
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| 591 | up a window containing the footnotes. Likewise, when you leave that
|
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| 592 | node, the window containing the footnotes goes away.
|
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| 593 |
|
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| 594 | * Cleaner built in documentation, and documentation functions.
|
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| 595 |
|
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| 596 | Use:
|
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| 597 | o `M-x describe-variable' to read a variable's documenation
|
---|
| 598 | o `M-x describe-key' to find out what a particular keystroke does.
|
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| 599 | o `M-x describe-function' to read a function's documentation.
|
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| 600 | o `M-x where-is' to find out what keys invoke a particular function.
|
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| 601 |
|
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| 602 | * Info can "tile" the displayed windows (via "M-x tile-windows"). If
|
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| 603 | the variable "automatic-tiling" is "On", then splitting a window or
|
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| 604 | deleting a window causes the remaining windows to be retiled.
|
---|
| 605 |
|
---|
| 606 | * You can save every keystroke you type in a "dribble file" by using the
|
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| 607 | `--dribble FILENAME' option. You can initially read keystrokes from an
|
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| 608 | alternate input stream with `--restore FILENAME', or by redirecting
|
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| 609 | input on the command line `info < old-dribble'.
|
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| 610 |
|
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| 611 | * New behaviour of menu items. If the label is the same as the
|
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| 612 | target node name, and the node couldn't be found in the current file,
|
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| 613 | treat the label as a file name. For example, a menu entry in "DIR"
|
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| 614 | might contain:
|
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| 615 |
|
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| 616 | * Emacs:: Cool text-editor.
|
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| 617 |
|
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| 618 | Info would not find the node "(dir)Emacs", so just plain "(emacs)"
|
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| 619 | would be tried.
|
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| 620 |
|
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| 621 | * New variable "ISO-Latin" allows you to use European machines with
|
---|
| 622 | 8-bit character sets.
|
---|
| 623 |
|
---|
| 624 | * Cleanups in echo area reading, and redisplay. Cleanups in handling the
|
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| 625 | window which shows possible completions.
|
---|
| 626 |
|
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| 627 | * Info can now read files that have been compressed. An array in filesys.c
|
---|
| 628 | maps extensions to programs that can decompress stdin, and write the results
|
---|
| 629 | to stdout. Currently, ".Z"/uncompress, ".z"/gunzip, and ".Y"/unyabba are
|
---|
| 630 | supported. The modeline for a compressed file shows "zz" in it.
|
---|
| 631 |
|
---|
| 632 | * There is a new variable "gc-compressed-files" which, if non-zero, says
|
---|
| 633 | it is okay to reclaim the file buffer space allocated to a file which
|
---|
| 634 | was compressed, if, and only if, that file's contents do not appear in
|
---|
| 635 | any history node.
|
---|
| 636 |
|
---|
| 637 | * New file `nodemenu.c' implements a few functions for manipulating
|
---|
| 638 | previously visited nodes. `C-x C-b' (list-visited-nodes) produces a
|
---|
| 639 | menu of the nodes that could be reached by info-history-node in some
|
---|
| 640 | window. `C-x b' (select-visited-node) is similar, but reads one of
|
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| 641 | the node names with completion.
|
---|
| 642 |
|
---|
| 643 | * Keystroke `M-r' (move_to_screen_line) allows the user to place the cursor at
|
---|
| 644 | the start of a specific screen line. Without a numeric argument, place the
|
---|
| 645 | cursor on the center line; with an arg, place the cursor on that line.
|
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| 646 |
|
---|
| 647 | * Interruptible display implemented. Basic display speedups and hacks.
|
---|
| 648 | * The message "*** Tags Out of Date ***" now means what it says.
|
---|
| 649 | * Index searching with `,' (info-index-next) has been improved.
|
---|
| 650 | * When scrolling with C-v, C-M-v, or M-v, only "Page Only" scrolling
|
---|
| 651 | will happen.
|
---|
| 652 |
|
---|
| 653 | * Continous scrolling (along with `]' (info-global-next) and `['
|
---|
| 654 | (info-global-prev) works better. `]' and `[' accept numeric
|
---|
| 655 | arguments, moving that many nodes in that case.
|
---|
| 656 |
|
---|
| 657 | * `C-x w' (info-toggle-wrap) controls how lines wider than the width
|
---|
| 658 | of the screen are displayed. If a line is too long, a `$' is
|
---|
| 659 | displayed in the rightmost column of the window.
|
---|
| 660 |
|
---|
| 661 | * There are some new variables for controlling the behaviour of Info
|
---|
| 662 | interactively. The current list of variables is as follows:
|
---|
| 663 |
|
---|
| 664 | Variable Name Default Value Description
|
---|
| 665 | ------------- ------------- -----------
|
---|
| 666 | `automatic-footnotes' On When "On", footnotes appear and
|
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| 667 | disappear automatically.
|
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| 668 |
|
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| 669 | `automatic-tiling' Off When "On", creating of deleting a
|
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| 670 | window resizes other windows.
|
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| 671 |
|
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| 672 | `visible-bell' Off If non-zero, try to use a visible bell.
|
---|
| 673 |
|
---|
| 674 | `errors-ring-bell' On If non-zero, errors cause a ring.
|
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| 675 |
|
---|
| 676 | `show-index-match' On If non-zero, the portion of the string
|
---|
| 677 | matched is highlighted by changing its
|
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| 678 | case.
|
---|
| 679 |
|
---|
| 680 | `scroll-behaviour' Continuous One of "Continuous", "Next Only", or
|
---|
| 681 | "Page Only". "Page Only" prevents you from
|
---|
| 682 | scrolling past the bottom or top of a node.
|
---|
| 683 | "Next Only" causes the Next or Prev node to
|
---|
| 684 | be selected when you scroll past the bottom
|
---|
| 685 | or top of a node. "Continous" moves
|
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| 686 | linearly through the files hierchichal
|
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| 687 | structure.
|
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| 688 |
|
---|
| 689 | `scroll-step' 0 Controls how scrolling is done for you when
|
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| 690 | the cursor moves out of the current window.
|
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| 691 | Non-zero means it is the number of lines
|
---|
| 692 | you would like the screen to shift. A
|
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| 693 | value of 0 means to center the line
|
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| 694 | containing the cursor in the window.
|
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| 695 |
|
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| 696 | `gc-compressed-files' Off If non-zero means it is okay to reclaim the
|
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| 697 | file buffer space allocated to a file which
|
---|
| 698 | was compressed, if, and only if, that
|
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| 699 | file's contents do not appear in the node
|
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| 700 | list of any window.
|
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| 701 |
|
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| 702 | `ISO-Latin' Off Non-zero means that you are using an ISO
|
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| 703 | Latin character set. By default, standard
|
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| 704 | ASCII characters are assumed.
|
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| 705 | ________________________________________
|
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| 706 | This release of Info is version 2.5 beta.
|
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| 707 |
|
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| 708 | Changes since 2.4 beta:
|
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| 709 |
|
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| 710 | * Index (i) and (,) commands fully implemented.
|
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| 711 | * "configure" script now shipped with Info.
|
---|
| 712 | * New function "set-variable" allows users to set various variables.
|
---|
| 713 | * User-settable behaviour on end or beginning of node scrolling. This
|
---|
| 714 | supercedes the SPC and DEL changes in 2.3 beta.
|
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| 715 |
|
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| 716 | ________________________________________
|
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| 717 | This release of Info is version 2.4 beta.
|
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| 718 |
|
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| 719 | Changes since 2.3 beta:
|
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| 720 |
|
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| 721 | * info-last-node now means move to the last node of this info file.
|
---|
| 722 | * info-history-node means move backwards through this window's node history.
|
---|
| 723 | * info-first-node moves to the first node in the Info file. This node is
|
---|
| 724 | not necessarily "Top"!
|
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| 725 | * SPC and DEL can select the Next or Prev node after printing an informative
|
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| 726 | message when pressed at the end/beg of a node.
|
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| 727 |
|
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| 728 | ----------------------------------------
|
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| 729 | This release of Info is version 2.3 beta.
|
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| 730 |
|
---|
| 731 | Changes since 2.2 beta:
|
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| 732 |
|
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| 733 | * M-x command lines if NAMED_COMMANDS is #defined. Variable in Makefile.
|
---|
| 734 | * Screen height changes made quite robust.
|
---|
| 735 | * Interactive function "set-screen-height" implements user height changes.
|
---|
| 736 | * Scrolling on some terminals is faster now.
|
---|
| 737 | * C-l with numeric arguement is fixed.
|
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| 738 |
|
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| 739 | ----------------------------------------
|
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| 740 | This release of Info is version 2.2 beta.
|
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| 741 |
|
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| 742 | Changes since 2.0:
|
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| 743 |
|
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| 744 | * C-g can now interrupt multi-file searches.
|
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| 745 | * Incremental search is fully implemented.
|
---|
| 746 | * Loading large tag tables is much faster now.
|
---|
| 747 | * makedoc.c replaces shell script, speeding incremental builds.
|
---|
| 748 | * Scrolling in redisplay is implemented.
|
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| 749 | * Recursive uses of the echo area made more robust.
|
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| 750 | * Garbage collection of unreferenced nodes.
|
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