I have released version 4.11 of Texinfo, the GNU documentation format. The NEWS is below.
You can get it by anonymous ftp from ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/texinfo/texinfo-4.11.tar.gz ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/texinfo/texinfo-4.11.tar.bz2 or via http: http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/texinfo/texinfo-4.11.tar.gz http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/texinfo/texinfo-4.11.tar.bz2 and its mirrors worldwide (see http://www.gnu.org/order/ftp.html). The Texinfo home page: http://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/ Special thanks to Oleg Katsitadze for working on texinfo.tex, and Sergey Poznyakoff for working on standalone Info. Thanks also to all the others who helped with the release. Full credits are in the ChangeLog. Please email bugs or suggestions to [EMAIL PROTECTED], general discussion to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Happy documenting, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Let me also mention that major improvements to texi2dvi and texinfo.tex were made in the recent 4.9 release upgrading the license to GPLv3.) * Language: . @documentlanguage now supports an optional country code specification after the language code, a la gettext. . new command @allowcodebreaks controls breaks at _ and - within @code. . new command @frenchspacing controls spacing after sentences. . new command @fonttextsize allows changing body text font size to 10pt. . new command @textdegree{} produces the normal degrees symbol. . new command @thischapternum can be used in TeX headers/footers. . new commands for quotes: @quotedblleft @quotedblright @quoteleft @quoteright @quotedblbase @quotesinglbase @guillemetleft @guillemetright @guilsinglleft @guilsinglright. . new option @set txicodequoteundirected produces an undirected quote in code and example output, instead of the regular right quote. . new option @set txicodequotebacktick produces a grave accent in code and example output, instead of the regular left quote. * makeinfo: . The @documentlanguage locale is used to translate various document strings. . --enable-encoding is now the default, meaning Info and plain text output use 8-bit characters given a supported @documentencoding. . new option --css-ref=URL for creating a stylesheet <link> in HTML output. . new option --transliterate-file-names to use a reduction-to-ASCII algorithm for split HTML file names, useful for non-Latin-based languages. . @enddots{} outputs three dots instead of four, for consistency with texinfo.tex. . the Local Variables coding: setting written by --enable-encoding now comes at the very end, after the tags table, so that Emacs can find it in more cases. . @allow-recursion (never documented) is deprecated and produces a warning. . @quote-args (never documented) is now the default behavior. . centering and such take account of character widths. . the --reference-limit option is now a no-op. . improvements to XML and Docbook output and the DTD. * texinfo.tex: . @thissection can now be used in custom headings, and @thischapter works reliably even without @set chapternewpage. Custom headings have additional flexibility as well. * texi2dvi: . pdftexi2dvi is a new wrapper to `texi2dvi --pdf', equal to texi2pdf, for the sake of AUC-TeX which prepends `pdf' to the compilation command when requested to produce PDF. * info: . look for info files in the current directory first, by default. . when calling man, use -a if no explicit section is found. . avoid showing the top(1) man page for nonexistent info files. * install-info: . new options --section-regex, --remove-exactly, --debug, --test. * Distribution: . autoconf 2.60, automake 1.10, gettext 0.16.1. . gettext support now [external]. . new translations: hu (Hungarian), rw (Kinyarwandan), vi (Vietnamese). . most common sources imported from gnulib. _______________________________________________ GNU Announcement mailing list <[email protected]> http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnu
