The first pretest for the next Texinfo release has been uploaded to https://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/texinfo/texinfo-6.6.90.tar.xz
The highlight of this release will be improved indexing facilities. Pretest releases are made to give a chance for a new release to be more widely tested, including on a variety of platforms. Please think if there is anything that should be added or changed before the next release. Please send any comments to <[email protected]>. Full news: * Language: . support of index subentries and sub-subentries with @subentry . new commands @seeentry and @seealso in index entries . no need to wrap Top node in @ifnottex - omitted automatically when processed with TeX . UTF-8 is the default input encoding * texi2any . for HTML output, mark index nodes in menus and tables of contents with the 'rel' attribute of the 'a' tag. . TOP_NODE_UP is now only used in HTML if TOP_NODE_UP_URL is set. Also TOP_NODE_UP should now be formatted in the output format. In HTML TOP_NODE_UP should be suitable for inclusion in HTML element attributes, so for instance should not contain elements. . support of noderename.cnf files has been removed . INPUT_PERL_ENCODING, INPUT_ENCODING_NAME, NODE_FILE_EXTENSION, NODE_FILENAMES, SHORTEXTN and TOP_NODE_FILE removed as customization variables. . TOP_NODE_FILE_TARGET now contains the extension. . error messages translated when the XS parser module is in use * texi2dvi . unconditionally run in --batch mode, i.e. without stopping if there is a TeX error . keep on going after a TeX error if the index files changed . with --tidy (or --build-dir), avoid reading index files from previous runs where --tidy was not used * info . for a tree search (with M-/), '}' and '{' work as well as 'M-}' and 'M-{' to go through the results * Distribution: . Several obsolete portability checks removed . gettext 0.20.1, automake 1.16.1
