Thanks for this, Karl. It's great to have new-and-improved toys to play
with!
Mahlon
On 02/24/2015 06:46 AM, Karl Berry wrote:
Here's the first pretest for the next Texinfo release (which will be
6.0, due to the substantial overhaul of standalone Info and completely
new implementation of texindex), for your testing pleasure:
ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/texinfo/texinfo-5.9.90.tar.xz
http://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/texinfo/texinfo-5.9.90.tar.xz
The NEWS below. Please send feedback here, to [email protected].
* Language:
. new commands @sub and @sup, for textual subscripts and superscripts.
. new command @U to insert a Unicode character by code point.
* texinfo.tex:
. @url/@uref output in PDF now the same as in DVI, showing the url
even if the second argument is given, not just as a link target.
TeX option \urefurlonlylinktrue gives previous behavior, of invisible urls.
PDF-only \linkcolor and \urlcolor specify colors (default black).
* texi2any:
. customization variable TOP_NODE_UP_URL now replaces all (dir) references;
recommended setting for GNU packages is /manual/.
. new customization variable INDEX_SPECIAL_CHARS_WARNING to complain
when index entries contain a colon.
. Docbook output no longer uses <lineannotation> for @r.
. -D'var val' on the command line works as intended again.
. --plaintext output can be split.
. a bit faster.
* info:
. invoking `info foo bar' looks for bar as an index entry in manual foo,
if not found as a top-level menu item.
. invoking info with an absolute or explicitly relative file name
(./foo.info, /tmp/foo.info, etc.) just visits that file.
. new option --init-file allows overriding ~/.infokey.
. new command M-x info-version.
. the M-x kill-node command has been removed.
. new variable infopath-no-defaults allows omitting the compile-time
Info directory from the Info search path.
. separate `infokey' program has been removed - the .infokey file is now
read directly by Info.
. new variable `highlight-searches' allows highlighting results from a search
. support for mouse scrollwheel, controlled by 'mouse' variable.
. new variable 'key_time' to control how long to wait for byte
sequences sent by special keys.
. new variable 'hide-note-references' alters appearance of displayed nodes
. support input of multibyte characters for searches in a UTF-8 locale.
. test suite at build time.
* texindex:
. completely new implementation as a literate program using Texinfo
and (portable) awk (called TexiWeb Jr.), thanks to Arnold Robbins.
(Requires gawk 4.0+ if .twjr source is modified.)
. the -o (--output) is not supported, unless we hear of someone using it.
. duplicated sort keys with different display texts result in one
merged index entry, using the first display text.
. better sorting and parsing in unusual cases; most notably, { and }
characters can appear as initials.
* install-info:
. handle compressed input file names containing spaces.
. exit successfully if --remove is given and the dir file does not exist.
. new option --defsection, to be used instead of "Miscellaneous" when
a section is not present in the Info file.
* texi2dvi:
. look for the environment variable THUMBPDF_CMD instead of THUMBPDF,
since thumbpdf itself has used THUMBPDF for options since 2000.
. remove --recode and --recode-from options, since they haven't
worked as intended for years, so evidently no one needs them.
* Distribution:
. new translation ca (catalan).
. automake-1.15, gettext-0.19.4.
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