I have released version 4.2 of Texinfo, the GNU documentation format with supporting programs. The news for this release is appended.
You can get it by anonymous ftp from ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/texinfo/texinfo-4.2.tar.gz and its mirrors worldwide (see http://www.gnu.org/order/ftp.html). *** IMPORTANT NEWS FOR ALL AUTHORS OF TEXINFO MANUALS *** As of version 4.2, Texinfo has a new command @copying to define the copyright and copying permissions for a manual. It's important to switch to using it as soon as possible (as in your next release), because the historical method of doing copyright permissions using @ifinfo failed to output copyright information in the HTML (or XML) formats. The manual has detailed explanations and examples. For convenience, here's a url to one of the relevant sections: http://texinfo.org/manual/Document-Permissions.html Texinfo also has small web pages at http://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo and http://texinfo.org/. Please email bugs or suggestions to [EMAIL PROTECTED], general discussion to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace, [EMAIL PROTECTED] 4.2 (1 April 2002) * Language: . new command @copying to define copying permissions. See above. . new conditionals @ifplaintext, @ifnotplaintext for the plain text (--no-headers) output format. . new command @\ to produce literal \ inside @math, since \ by itself no longer works. * makeinfo: . emit accesskey attributes for keyboard shortcuts to menu items. . @{even,every,odd}{footing,header} are ignored by makeinfo now, so they no longer need to be enclosed in @iftex. * texinfo.tex: . bug fix for pdf-format table of contents. * info: . bug fixes for -R (--raw-escapes). . --help shows short option names. * Distribution: . the doc.c, funs.h, and key.c files in info/ are no longer generated at make time, to appease Automake's make distcheck. . gettext 0.11.1, autoconf 2.53, automake 1.6 (with install-info kludge). _______________________________________________ Bug-texinfo mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-texinfo
