Fwd: texinfo-5.0 available

Sun Feb 17 16:10:16 UTC 2013

Hi

This is what we were waiting for.  :)

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Subject: 	texinfo-5.0 available
Date: 	Sat, 16 Feb 2013 20:34:07 -0600
From: 	Karl Berry <karl at freefriends.org>
To: 	info-gnu at gnu.org <info-gnu at gnu.org>
CC: 	bug-texinfo at gnu.org <bug-texinfo at gnu.org>

We have released version 5.0 of Texinfo, the GNU documentation format.

It's available via a mirror (xz is much smaller than gz,
but gz is available too just in case):
   http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/texinfo/texinfo-5.0.tar.xz
   http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/texinfo/texinfo-5.0.tar.gz

Or if automatic redirection fails, the list of mirrors is at:
   http://www.gnu.org/prep/ftp.html

Or if need be you can use the main GNU ftp server:
   http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/texinfo/texinfo-5.0.tar.xz
   http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/texinfo/texinfo-5.0.tar.gz

Or via rsync://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/texinfo/; some mirrors also support rsync.

As you might imagine, there are numerous changes since the previous
release (4.13, over four long years ago).  By far the biggest change is
a complete reimplementation of makeinfo.  It is now much more flexible
but also, sadly, much slower, despite all our optimization efforts.  We
hope all the many improvements make the new version worthwhile for users
nevertheless.

The full NEWS is below.  It's also available at
http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/texinfo/texinfo/NEWS?view=markup

Please email bugs or suggestions to bug-texinfo at gnu.org,
general discussion to help-texinfo at gnu.org.
The Texinfo home page: http://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/

Special thanks to my colleagues Patrice Dumas (for creating the new makeinfo)
and Sergey Poznyakoff (for maintaining the standalone Info).

Happy documenting,
karl at gnu.org

Texinfo 5.0 (16 February 2013)
* Language:
   . Texinfo commands are supported in node names.
   . #line directives are recognized.
   . @-commands are now recognized in raw format blocks.  Therefore, for
     example, lone @, { and } characters in @tex, @html and similar
     environments must be converted to the normal @@, @{, and @} commands.
   . new commands @inlinefmt and @inlineraw for brace-delimited conditionals.
   . new conditionals @ifcommanddefined and @ifcommandnotdefined to test
     if a Texinfo command is available.
   . new command @part for a group of chapters.
   . new environments @raggedright, @smallquotation,
       @indentedblock, and @smallindentedblock.
   . new commands @codequoteundirected and @codequotebacktick,
       for a better interface than the @set variables; now respected by @kbd.
   . new command @xrefautomaticsectiontitle to allow using section titles
       in cross references by default, instead of node names.
   . new commands for Texinfo special characters:
     @atchar{} @lbracechar{} @rbracechar{} @backslashchar{} @hashchar{}.
   . new commands @deftypefnnewline to print return types on their own lines.
   . new command @headitemfont for the sake of template rows.
   . new command @urefbreakstyle to control breaking of @url/@uref in TeX.
   . new diacritic command @ogonek.
   . new commands for Icelandic letters eth and thorn: @DH{} @dh{} @TH{} @th{}.
   . new command @errormsg to report an error.
   . five-argument xrefs can refer to a whole manual, by omitting the
       section name and either omitting the node name or using "Top".
   . DEL (0x7f = 0177 = 127) is a true comment character (catcode 14 in TeX).

* texi2any is the new generic converter for Texinfo that can produce all
   supported output formats, both those from texi2dvi (PDF/DVI) and from
   makeinfo (Info/HTML/etc.).  texi2any and makeinfo are now different
   names for the same program; there are no differences in behavior based
   on the program name.

   The new implementation is in Perl, requiring Perl 5.7.3 (released in
   March 2002) and its standard Encode module.

   The Perl texi2any/makeinfo both replaces and is intended to be (for
   all practical purposes) upward-compatible with the C makeinfo.  It has
   many new features not in the C makeinfo.  For example, cross-manual
   references are now fully supported, and allows for extensive
   customization of the HTML output.  See the `Generic Translator
   texi2any' chapter in the manual (among other places) for more about
   this reimplementation.

   The new program is, unfortunately, noticeably slower at present than
   the C program was.  We hope all the many improvements make the new
   version worthwhile for users nevertheless.

* pod2texi is a new (Perl) program that uses the capabilities of
   texi2any to translate Perl pod documentation to Texinfo.

* texinfo.tex:
   . urls (given to @uref and @url) are broken by default at special
     characters; behavior controllable with @urefbreakstyle.
   . support some per-language hyphenation, when the underlying TeX
     engine does (for instance, etex/pdfetex from TeX Live 2008 or
     later).  Words with accented letters are still not handled properly.
   . @title, text will be broken if needed, and @* can be used to override.
   . new Icelandic translation: txi-is.tex.
   . new Hungarian translation: txi-hu.tex.
   . official updates between full package releases available at
     http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/texinfo/texinfo.tex.

* texi2dvi:
   . new option --max-iterations.
   . official updates between full package releases available at
     http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/texinfo/texi2dvi.

* info:
   . INFOPATH is determined from PATH by default, or if an element "PATH"
     is specified.
   . New command Info-virtual-index, bound to I by default, following Emacs.
   . Info keywords not found by searches.
   . A lower limit on the length of search patterns, default 1,
     specified by the variable min-search-length.
   . Use ASCII versions of images, if supplied by the document.
   . xz compression supported.

* install-info:
   . xz compression supported.

* Documentation:
   . new appendix with a technical description of the Info file format.
   . information on the customizations of the HTML output now possible.

* Distribution:
   . new file htmlxref.cnf is installed to support cross-manual
     references; official updates between full package releases available
     at http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/texinfo/htmlxref.cnf.
   . language support for no removed/renamed to nb, per Norwegian translators.
   . new translations: id it,
     and document translations: eo pl.
   . texinfo.cat file removed since it is (to our knowledge) unused.
   . documentation license now GFDLv1.3 or later.
   . autoconf 2.69, automake 1.13.1, gettext 0.18.2.

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