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I have released version 4.8 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-4.8.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/texinfo/texinfo-4.8.tar.bz2
and its mirrors worldwide (see http://www.gnu.org/order/ftp.html).
The Texinfo home page is http://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/.
Thanks to everyone who helped with the release, as always. Credits are
in the ChangeLog.
Please email bugs or suggestions to bug-texinfo@xxxxxxx,
general discussion to help-texinfo@xxxxxxxx
Peace,
karl@xxxxxxx
*** 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://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/manual/texinfo/html_node/Document-Permissions.html
texinfo 4.8 (31 December 2004)
* Language:
. new command @euro for the Euro currency symbol, and
@documentencoding has some support for ISO-8859-15.
. new command @abbr for general abbreviations.
. new command @slanted to typeset text in a slanted font,
and @sansserif to typeset in a sans serif font.
* makeinfo:
. An empty first argument to cross-reference commands, such as @xref,
causes an error. This change was made in 4.1, but not mentioned in NEWS.
. HTML output:
- <a name="..."> constructs are added for the old-style
conversion of node names to HTML names, so that external references
to them can continue to work.
- "g_t" prefixed to targets for node names beginning with a
nonletter, for XHTML compatibility.
. Docbook output: recognize more image formats.
* texi2dvi:
. new option --recode, to call recode for input character translation.
* Distribution:
. new convenience script texi2pdf, equivalent to texi2dvi --pdf (from tetex).
. some cross-compiling support in configure && make.
. new configure option --disable-install-warnings, for TeX.
distributions which do have the files installed.
. automake 1.9.4.
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