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+This NEWS file records noteworthy changes, very tersely.
+See the manual for detailed information.
+
+ Copyright 1992-2019 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+
+ Copying and distribution of this file, with or without modification,
+ are permitted in any medium without royalty provided the copyright
+ notice and this notice are preserved.
+
+------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+6.6 (16 February 2019)
+* Language:
+ . new commands @&, @ampchar{}
+ . @cropmarks command removed
+ . @ctrl is no longer recognised (it was a way to insert literal
+ control characters in Info files, but deprecated since the
+ time of Texinfo version 2)
+ . \usebracesinindexestrue is no longer recommended for using braces in
+ index entries, and has been a no-op for some time
+
+* texi2any
+ . extension modules fixed to work with the "thread-safe locales" of
+ Perl 5.28 and newer
+ . some code changed to stop warnings being given by newer versions of Perl
+ . for HTML output, use `id' to define link targets instead of the `name'
+ attribute on <a>
+ . A native-code implementation of the Texinfo parser has been included
+ on an experimental basis, which makes texi2any a lot faster. Set the
+ `TEXINFO_XS_PARSER' environment variable to 1 to use.
+ . changes to HTML output:
+ . omit colon after node name in menus by default (use
+ `MENU_ENTRY_COLON' to add it back)
+ . no special CSS for commands like @smallexample
+ . new customization variable `SECTION_NAME_IN_TITLE' to use the
+ section name as the document <title>
+ . use section names instead of node names in generated menus
+ . pass on flags set with -D to TeX
+ . useless static libraries are not installed
+ . the newline after an @insertcopying is not output
+ . warning given for @multitable prototypes not in braces
+ . @indent and @noindent are not allowed inside the arguments to
+ commands where they are not meaningful
+ . @quote-arg and @allow-recursion are not recognised (these two used
+ to be recognised by makeinfo in macro definitions but were never
+ implemented in texinfo.tex)
+ . `FIX_TEXINFO' removed as a customization variable
+ . do not recognise or warn about obsolete customization variables
+
+* info
+ . debugging output with -x is not diverted to a separate infodebug file
+
+* Development:
+ . switch from Subversion to git
+ - https://savannah.gnu.org/git/?group=texinfo
+ . automake 1.16
+
+
+6.5 (12 September 2017)
+* info:
+ . some bugs fixed:
+ . a bug where a segfault could happen in the regex search, for
+ example when the user entered a single \ as the search string
+ . another bug which could make nodes inaccessible in long "split"
+ info files
+ . a bug where it was not possible to follow a cross-reference
+ that was split across more than one line has been fixed
+ . do not fall back to a man page if following a cross-reference in an
+ info file failed
+ . if looking for a file failed, do not convert the name of a file to
+ lower-case and look for it again
+
+* texinfo.tex
+ . some faulty definitions for Unicode characters have been changed or
+ removed
+ . fix indentation in table of contents for entries that are split
+ across multiple lines
+
+* texi2dvi
+ . a bug that broke the processing of LaTeX files that did not
+ use BibTeX has been fixed
+
+* texi2any
+ . output the encoding declaration of a HTML file earlier so it
+ will always occur within first 1024 bytes of file
+ . `INLINE_INSERTCOPYING' removed as a customization variable
+
+
+6.4 (23 June 2017)
+* texi2any:
+ . for HTML output, place section names before the manual in page
+ titles, instead of after them, so it is easier to distinguish pages
+ if titles are truncated
+ . starting points for ordered lists beginning with 0 or a letter of
+ the alphabet are output as attributes on the <ol> tag, as was
+ case for Texinfo 4.13 and earlier
+ . a bit faster
+ . some discrepancies in paragraph formatting between Perl extension
+ modules and interpreted Perl modules have been fixed
+ . `MACRO_BODY_IGNORES_LEADING_SPACE' customization variable removed,
+ and `indent_menu_descriptions' is no longer a possible value for
+ `TREE_TRANSFORMATIONS' (as these features did not work as
+ documented)
+
+* info:
+ . the `up-line' and `down-line' commands now are like the other
+ scrolling commands and are no longer confined to a single node
+ (depending on the value of `scroll-behaviour')
+ . supplying the --all option with --index-search displays a list
+ of matching index entries
+ . the style variables like `link-style' can now be set while info
+ is running
+ . display bug fixed where color could be turned off prematurely
+ . several other bugs fixed
+ . better portability in test suite
+ . do not fall back to showing the dir node if a manual isn't found
+ . Do not attempt any kind of conversion of CR LF line endings,
+ except on MS-DOS/Windows, when it is done unconditionally. (This
+ replaces a more complicated approach, where this conversion would
+ take place if there was a problem finding a node in a file.) The
+ main effect of this change is that Info files with CR LF line
+ endings, which would have been produced on MS-DOS/Windows with old
+ versions of makeinfo, are only supported on such operating systems.
+ . a few of the key bindings under --vi-keys have been changed for
+ consistency or to match the documentation
+
+* texinfo.tex
+ . a DVI file with a single empty page can be output again, which
+ restores the behavior from Texinfo 6.0 and earlier
+
+* Distribution
+ . autoconf 2.69, automake 1.15, gettext 0.19.8
+
+
+
+6.3 (10 September 2016)
+
+* Language:
+ . The commands `@setcontentsaftertitlepage' and
+ `@setshortcontentsaftertitlepage' have been removed.
+ . @-commands are no longer supported within `@errormsg'.
+
+* texinfo.tex:
+ . For a couple of characters (opening and closing braces), use glyphs
+ from the standard TeX math fonts instead of using EC fonts which are
+ less likely to be installed.
+ . Use of user-defined macros in the text of an index entry is more
+ reliable when the text contains Texinfo @-commands.
+ . @synindex and @syncodeindex have been fixed (broken in the last
+ release).
+ . Support added for native UTF-8 support with XeTeX and LuaTeX.
+ . Support of PDF output with XeTeX improved.
+ . You can use a new file doc/texinfo-ja.tex for Texinfo documents in
+ Japanese. doc/short-sample-ja.tex is a sample document. New
+ support file doc/txi-ja.tex for Japanese.
+
+* texi2any:
+ . Fix handling of compiler options when building Perl extension modules.
+
+* texi2dvi:
+ . Can now process files whose absolute paths contain space characters,
+ as long a relative path to the file is given. Better support of
+ files with unusual characters in their names.
+ . No longer exits prematurely in some circumstances (due to the script
+ running under "set -e").
+ . Bug fixed which made the `--command' and `--tidy' options
+ incompatible.
+
+* info:
+ . Handling of "invalid" value in infokey file fixed.
+
+6.2 (withdrawn)
+
+
+
+6.1 (06 February 2016)
+
+* Language:
+ . You can now omit the @menu from nodes with other nodes below them in
+ the document structure. If you use "@validatemenus off" near the
+ start of a Texinfo file, makeinfo will, where needed, create a menu
+ for nodes lacking one given explicitly.
+ . An @setfilename line is no longer required at the start of a
+ Texinfo file. (Be aware, though, that some other tools may require
+ it, for example Automake.)
+ . For processing with TeX, a comma is automatically provided following
+ a cross-reference command (such as @xref) when needed to separate
+ the page number from following text, so you don't need to add one
+ yourself. See the `Parts of a Cross Reference' node in the manual
+ for details. Behavior when followed by punctuation, as always
+ recommended previously, is unchanged.
+
+* texi2any:
+ . Some Perl modules have been rewritten in C to increase speed.
+ If Perl extensions can be created, they are used by default;
+ otherwise the pure Perl implementations are still used.
+ Disable at build time with "configure --disable-perl-xs". The
+ environment variable TEXINFO_XS controls how they are used by
+ texi2any.
+ . Quotation marks are left out for node names and index entries in
+ Info output where they would have been produced by commands such
+ as @file or @option.
+ . New customization variable INFO_SPECIAL_CHARS_QUOTE to allow use of
+ a quoting mechanism for problematic constructs in Info output, for
+ example node names containing colons or commas.
+ . Commands like @heading are affected by @lowersections and @raisesections
+ again, as was the case before Texinfo 5.0.
+
+* texinfo.tex:
+ . You may explicitly specify a sort key for an index entry by preceding
+ the text of the entry with the @sortas commmand with the sort key
+ desired as a braced argument. Additionally, you may choose to
+ ignore all occurences of the characters \, @, <, and - using new
+ flags you can specify with @set: `txiindexbackslashignore',
+ `txiindexatsignignore', `txiindexlessthanignore', and
+ `txiindexhyphenignore' respectively.
+ . Changes to macro handling to more closely match makeinfo. Ends of
+ lines are preserved in an argument to a macro taking a single
+ argument.
+ . By default, suppress heading line on a page with a chapter on it, to
+ avoid having the chapter title repeated.
+ . Use a larger font for arguments in a @deffn line and similar.
+ . The default indices (cp, ky and so on) now don't get a file opened
+ for them unless they are actually used. This reduces the number of
+ files that a run of TeX produces, and also allows for a greater
+ number of user-defined indices, because you will not bump into TeX's
+ limit of 16 open files at once so soon.
+ . For initials in indices that are non-alphanumeric characters (for
+ example, backslash, or braces), avoid use of a typewriter font.
+ This gives a more consistent appearance.
+ . Have a stronger preference for breaking a column in an index before
+ a letter heading.
+ . Formatting improvements in tables of contents and indices. Entries
+ can extend slightly into the margin instead of being broken across
+ two lines, and text is split more evenly across lines. Reduce
+ chance of an orphaned index entry appearing at the top of a column.
+ . Support character encodings beyond ASCII for XeTeX and LuaTeX by
+ reading file input byte-by-byte.
+
+* texi2dvi:
+ . Support for determining the output files using the `-recorder'
+ option to TeX, to help to support more TeX engines.
+
+* info:
+ . New user variables `link-style', `active-link-style', and
+ `match-style' enable customization of how cross-references and search
+ matches are highlighted.
+ . By default only the node pointers are displayed at the top of a node.
+ Customize this with the `nodeline' variable.
+ . New command M-x tree-search to search all subnodes of a node.
+ . Now tries to find referenced manuals in the same directory as the
+ current file first, before looking in search path. Customize this
+ with new variable `follow-strategy'.
+ . The `mouse' variable is now off by default, in order not to
+ interfere with the selection of text in a terminal emulator window.
+ . `q' closes a window instead of quitting altogether if there's more
+ than one, for example if a help window is open.
+ . Several bug fixes, including:
+ . one causing the wrong position in a node to be shown when
+ following an "anchor" cross-reference
+ . one causing a test failure in the t/c-u-m-x-scroll-forward.sh
+ test on some platforms
+ . Internal changes to reduce memory use and increase speed of
+ searches, relative to last release
+ . The meaning of the `key-time' variable has changed when its value
+ is 0. This value meant to wait forever in the last release, but now
+ it means that the next byte must be available immediately.
+
+* Documentation:
+ . The `info.info' file (and `info.texi' source) is no longer
+ distributed with Texinfo. Now this manual is only in Emacs.
+
+* Distribution:
+ . automake-1.15, gettext-0.19.6.
+
+
+6.0 (26 June 2015)
+* 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 as `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.
+ . separate `infokey' program has been removed - the .infokey file is
+ now read directly by Info.
+ . new option --init-file allows overriding ~/.infokey.
+ . 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
+ . new variable `infopath-no-defaults' allows omitting the compile-time
+ Info directory from the Info search path.
+ . support input of multibyte characters for searches in a UTF-8 locale.
+ . if reading an Info file that is known to be in a different character
+ encoding to that of the user's environment, convert its contents
+ when displayed and substitute missing characters
+ . new command M-x info-version.
+ . the M-x kill-node command has been removed.
+ . 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.
+
+
+5.2 (26 September 2013)
+* Language:
+ . new commands @inlinefmtifelse, @inlineifset, @inlineifclear, for
+ more brace-delimited alternatives to the conditional environments.
+
+* texi2any:
+ . warns about node names, menu items, and cross-references (but not
+ index entries) containing problematic characters; can be disabled
+ with -c INFO_SPECIAL_CHARS_WARNING=0.
+
+* info:
+ . new option -x (--debug) for debugging output; -x -1 to get everything.
+ . new option -v (--variable) assigns a value to an Info variable,
+ with the usual syntax, -v VARIABLE=VALUE.
+ . new option -a (--all) instructs Info to display all documents
+ matching the command line arguments, not just the first. In
+ conjunction with the -w option, it shows full names of all Info
+ files matching the command line arguments; with -o, it outputs all
+ matching files.
+ . new variable search-skip-screen controls the starting position for
+ repeated search commands ({ and }). When set to On, repeated
+ searches skip the lines displayed on the screen, i.e.,
+ forward searches (}) start at the beginning of the next page, and
+ backward searches ({) start at the end of the previous page.
+ . new command display-file-info (bound to = by default, C-g in vi mode)
+ shows full file name of the node being displayed and position in it.
+
+* texi2dvi:
+ . support for biblatex+biber.
+
+* Distribution: automake-1.14, gettext-0.18.3.1.
+
+
+5.1 (12 March 2013)
+* texi2any:
+ . irregular sectioning trees (see 5.0 news item) produce a warning
+ rather than an error.
+ . @set in the middle of the line no longer produces a warning.
+
+* info:
+ . lzip (.lz) compression supported.
+
+* install-info:
+ . lzip (.lz) compression supported.
+
+* Development: switch from CVS to Subversion.
+ https://savannah.gnu.org/svn/?group=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 "@set txicodequoteundirected" and
+ "@set txicodequotebacktick"; 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.
+
+* Intentional incompatibilities with the previous implementation of
+ makeinfo, through version 4.13:
+
+ . The old implementation accepted a lone block of text inside @itemize,
+ @enumerate, etc., without any @item. This is semantically
+ inconsistent, leading to problems with some backends, and thus now
+ produces a warning.
+
+ . The old implementation accepted ``irregular'' sectioning trees. Now,
+ when @node pointers are implicitly determined, the consistency of
+ @menu and the sectioning tree is checked. (If node pointers are
+ explicitly specified in the document, the tree can still be irregular.)
+
+ . The old implementation always added blank lines between function
+ definitions if they weren't already there. Now blank lines are not
+ added. (Both old and new implementations preserve blank lines that
+ are present.)
+
+ . The old implementation processed macros in place, formatting the
+ replacement text with the output. Now the replacement text is
+ textually substituted as Texinfo source. A consequence of the old
+ behavior is that ends of lines from expansion of an @macro
+ definition did not end an @-command line-delimited argument
+ (@chapter, @center, etc.). Now they do. (A detailed example is in
+ the manual, node Macro Details.)
+
+* 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.
+
+
+4.13 (18 September 2008)
+
+* A reference card for Texinfo is now available, in doc/refcard. For
+ convenience, preformatted PDF's for letter-size and A4 paper are included.
+
+* makeinfo:
+ . new option --internal-links for HTML output, to write a tsv file
+ mapping indexed/toc terms to links, for easy reference from external
+ documents.
+ . - as an input file name reads standard input.
+
+* info:
+ . support for multibyte encodings such as UTF-8.
+ . new option --show-malformed-multibytes, to display malformed multibyte
+ sequences.
+ . new environment variable INFO_MAN_COMMAND sets the name of man executable
+ (use it if you a need to override PATH settings).
+
+* install-info:
+ . bug fix: support names with embedded periods (e.g., config.status) again.
+
+* Distribution:
+ . autoconf 2.63.
+
+
+4.12 (20 April 2008)
+
+* Language:
+ . new commands @clicksequence, @click, and @clickstyle for documenting
+ GUI sequences, and @arrow for the default glyph used.
+ . new commands @geq{} and @leq{} for the normal >= and <= relations.
+
+* install-info:
+ . lzma compression supported.
+ . Much work towards compatibility with Debian's independent
+ implementation. Changes in behavior:
+ - new entries are formatted to start at column 34 by default.
+ - existing entries are replaced by default.
+ - new sections are alphabetized among existing sections.
+ - if an entry being removed is the last one in a section, the
+ section is also removed.
+ . Also many new options:
+ --section REGEX TITLE.
+ --no-indent: disable formatting of new entries.
+ --menuentry, --name: specify left-hand side of an entry.
+ --dry-run: alias for --test.
+ --regex REGEX: renamed from --section regex, adds to all sections
+ matching REGEX by default.
+ --add-once: add only to first specified or matching section.
+ --align COL: start description at column COL.
+ --calign COL: start continuation lines in description at COL.
+ --max-width COL: wrap the description at COL.
+ . New section in the Texinfo manual describing all this.
+
+* info:
+ Our goal with these changes to the default interface is to make Info
+ documents more easily and quickly readable, especially by non-experts.
+ . the PageUp and PageDown keys move through the whole document by
+ default, instead of just the current node.
+ . the h command shows the basic help, and H starts the Info tutorial.
+ . the newly-bound x command deletes the current window, e.g., within help.
+ . the scroll-step variable is set to 1 by default, for smooth scrolling.
+ . the cursor-movement-scrolls-p variable is set to 1 by default, so
+ link searches look through the whole document.
+ . regular expression searches are supported, and are the default for
+ both regular and incremental searches.
+ . the new R command toggles between regexp and literal-string searches.
+ . the new variable scroll-last-node controls scrolling at the end of
+ the last node; by default, it now simply reports there are no more
+ nodes. To restore the old behavior, set scroll-last-node=Scroll.
+ . the precise line number specified in index entries is used if available.
+ . --usage=info shows usage for standalone Info.
+ . lzma compression supported.
+
+* Distribution:
+ . language support for no removed/renamed to nb, per Norwegian translators.
+ . new translation: es.
+ . bug fixes in make check (and elsewhere).
+ . gettext 0.17, automake 1.10.1, autoconf 2.62.
+
+
+4.11 (9 September 2007)
+
+* 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.
+
+4.10 (omitted)
+
+
+4.9 (29 June 2007)
+* GPLv3.
+* texi2dvi:
+ . new mode --build=tidy which supports compilation in a separate
+ directory, where intermediate files are preserved.
+ . new option --build-dir, to specify where the tidy build will take
+ place, either locally or globally. This allows avoiding the clutter
+ while preserving auxiliary files.
+ . new support for AUC-TeX: texi2dvi (weakly) supports arguments a la
+ TeX such as `\nonstopmode\input{file.tex}'.
+ . new options --ps and --dvipdf, useful especially for pstricks documents.
+ . new option --src-specials, passed to TeX.
+* texinfo.tex:
+ . Latin1, Latin2, Latin9, and UTF-8 are supported -- only as well as
+ the Computer Modern fonts can manage, which means primarily English
+ and western European languages, to a limited extent.
+ . png and jpg images supported in pdf output.
+ . new Russian, Serbian, and Ukrainian translations for texinfo.tex:
+ txi-ru.tex, txi-sr.tex, txi-uk.tex.
+ . section names with \ characters work properly in pdf outlines.
+ . have .toc files use @ as the escape character, instead of \.
+
+
+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.
+
+
+4.7 (9 April 2004)
+* Language:
+ . new commands @float, @caption, @shortcaption, @listoffloats for
+ initial implementation of floating material (figures, tables, etc).
+ Ironically, they do not yet actually float anywhere.
+ . new commands @docbook, @ifdocbook, @ifnotdocbook for conditional Docbook.
+ . new commands @ordf{} and @ordm{} for Spanish feminine/masculine ordinals.
+ . new commands @deftypecv[x] for class variables in typed OO languages.
+ . new command @registeredsymbol for the r-in-a-circle symbol.
+ . new command @headitem to make a heading row in @multitable.
+ . new command @LaTeX{} for the LaTeX logo.
+ . new command @comma{} to avoid comma-parsing problems.
+ . @url is now a synonym for @uref; new command @indicateurl has the
+ old meaning of just displaying a url as text.
+ . @quotation now accepts an optional argument for labelling the text
+ as a `Note', `Tip', etc.
+ . @defun (et al.) heading lines can now be continued with a lone @.
+ . @acronym accepts an optional argument for the meaning of the acronym.
+* makeinfo:
+ . New environment variable TEXINFO_OUTPUT_FORMAT determines the output
+ format at runtime, if no options are specified.
+ . New option --plaintext, equivalent to --no-headers with Info output.
+ . All outputs:
+ - sections are numbered by default.
+ . Info output:
+ - punctuation is inserted after @pxref and @ref, if needed to make
+ cross-references valid.
+ - line numbers included in index menus, so Info readers can go to
+ the exact line of an entry, not just a node. Also in plaintext output.
+ - ^@^H[index^@^H] cookie included in index menus, so Info readers
+ can handle the ] etc. commands better.
+ . HTML output:
+ - new algorithm for cross-references to other manuals, for maximum
+ portability and stability.
+ - include node name in <title> with split output.
+ - @multicolumn fractions become percentages.
+ - entities used for bullets, quotes, dashes, and others.
+ - index entries are links to the exact locations.
+ - <h4> and <h5> used for @sub and @subsubsections again.
+ - accented dotless i supported.
+ . XML output: many new tags and structure to preserve more source features.
+ . Docbook output:
+ - upgraded DTD to Docbook XML 4.2, no longer using Docbook SGML.
+ - improved translation in general, for instance:
+ - line annotations and marked quotations.
+* texi2dvi:
+ . if available, use etex (pdfetex if --pdf) by default.
+ . if the input file includes thumbpdf.sty (for LaTeX), then run thumbpdf.
+ . more output if --debug.
+* texinfo.tex:
+ . @defun names are now printed in typewriter (instead of bold), and
+ within the arguments, @var text is printed in slanted typewriter.
+ . @tex code is executed inside a TeX group, so that any changes must
+ be prefixed with \global (or the equivalent) to be effective. (This
+ change was actually made years ago, but never made it into the NEWS.)
+* info:
+ . new option --where (aka --location, -w) to report where an Info file
+ would be found, instead of reading it.
+ . by default, output ANSI terminal escape sequences as-is; new option
+ --no-raw-escapes overrides this.
+ . use the newly-generated index line numbers.
+* Distribution:
+ . new script gendocs.sh (not installed), for use by GNU maintainers in
+ getting their manuals on the GNU web site. Documented in
+ maintain.texi (http://www.gnu.org/prep/maintain/).
+ . Most code uses ANSI C prototypes, to some extent.
+ . New translation: nb.
+ . automake 1.8.3, autoconf 2.59, gettext 0.14.1.
+
+
+4.6 (10 June 2003)
+* Language:
+ . new command @/ specifies an allowable breakpoint within a line.
+ . new command @dofirstparagraphindent to control whether the first
+ paragraph following a section heading is indented. Default is to
+ omit this indentation, unlike the output up to now.
+ . new command @indent for explicitly indenting a paragraph.
+ . makeinfo writes a new construct for @image in Info output, so that
+ graphical Info browsers (such as Emacs Info under X) can display an
+ actual image. (Standalone Info ignores this, since it runs in a tty.)
+* makeinfo:
+ . Common:
+ - search for image files in the include file search path.
+ - warns if @value is used on an undefined variable.
+ . Info output:
+ - default --split-size now 300,000 bytes, up from 50,000.
+ - with --enable-encoding and a given @documentencoding,
+ output a Local Variables section specifying that encoding, for use
+ with Emacs.
+ . HTML output:
+ - uses <h3> at the smallest.
+ - a few css <style> definitions are included to better
+ implement @format, @display, @small..., etc.
+ - new option --css-include=FILE includes FILE in the <style>.
+ - @cartouche now outputs a <table> with a border.
+* texinfo.tex:
+ . new Polish translation txi-pl.tex.
+* texi2dvi:
+ . --command=CMD replaces --texinfo=CMD; it inserts CMD at the first
+ line of LaTeX files now, or after the @setfilename for Texinfo files.
+* info:
+ . RET now goes to the nearest xref (rather like Emacs Info),
+ instead of the next xref starting on the current line.
+* Distribution:
+ . new Romanian (ro) translation.
+ . variables now declared const where appropriate.
+ . gettext 0.12.1, automake 1.7.5.
+
+
+4.5 (4 February 2003)
+* info:
+ . a bug in 4.4 prevented compressed info files from being found.
+* Distribution:
+ . detect sys/ptem.h on Solaris.
+
+
+4.4 (31 January 2003)
+* Language:
+ . The ' (ASCII apostrophe/right quote) character is finally allowed in
+ node and anchor names. Thus, after installing this texinfo.tex,
+ existing .aux files will cause errors! Remove them and rerun TeX to
+ generate good ones.
+ . @value constructs are now expanded in the filename arguments to
+ @include and @verbatiminclude.
+* makeinfo:
+ . @macro names may no longer include ^ or _, for the sake of math mode.
+ . bug fix: @copying text is now reflected in tag table positions;
+ before, nodes may not have been found with a long-enough @copying.
+ . bug fix: html @verb arg is quoted properly, and does not imply
+ a paragraph break.
+* texinfo.tex:
+ . @smallexample and the like now output in a smaller font (9pt) in all
+ paper formats, not just @smallbook and @afourpaper.
+ . new translation txi-tr.tex.
+ . bug fix: <>| and other characters do not disappear when they are
+ first on a line in @verbatim.
+* install-info:
+ . bug fix: don't translate the `* Menu' info keyword.
+* info:
+ . CTRL-H is treated like DEL in incremental search.
+ . arrow keys once again work in isearch contexts under Solaris.
+* infokey:
+ . use .info key bindings before defaults.
+ . allow prefix keys to be disabled.
+* Distribution:
+ . update to GNU FDL 1.2 (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/fdl.html).
+ . getopt and other common library files updated from gnulib
+ (http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/gnulib/).
+ . autoconf 2.57, automake 1.7.2.
+
+
+4.3 (14 November 2002)
+* Language:
+ . new command @tie{} to do a real tie (unbreakable interword space).
+* makeinfo:
+ . html output for @defun and friends now has font changes.
+ . html output has some class attributes.
+ . xml and docbook output improved in many details.
+* texinfo.tex:
+ . new Italian translations, txi-it.tex.
+ . pdf bookmarks for unnumbered sections work.
+ . type name for @defun and friends no longer extends into margin.
+* info:
+ . automatic-footnotes now off by default, for emacs compatibility.
+ . crash when MALLOC_CHECK_=2 fixed.
+* install-info:
+ . new option --infodir synonym for --info-dir, for compatibility with
+ the Debian install-info.
+ . support for bzip2-compressed files.
+* texindex:
+ . omit initial if the entire index is under one character.
+* Distribution:
+ . development sources now available under CVS, see
+ http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/texinfo/
+ . Turkish message translation.
+ . gettext 0.11.5, autoconf 2.54, automake 1.7.1.
+
+
+*** NEWS FOR ALL AUTHORS OF TEXINFO MANUALS ***
+
+As of version 4.2, Texinfo has a command @copying to define the
+copyright and copying permissions for a manual. If you haven't already,
+please switch to using it 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
+
+4.2 (1 April 2002)
+* Language:
+ . new command @copying to define copying permissions. See above.
+ . new conditionals @ifplaintext, @ifnotplaintext for the plain text
+ (--no-headers) output format.
+ . new command @\ to produce literal \ inside @math, since \ by itself
+ no longer works.
+* makeinfo:
+ . emit accesskey attributes for keyboard shortcuts to menu items.
+ . @{even,every,odd}{footing,header} are ignored by makeinfo now, so
+ they no longer need to be enclosed in @iftex.
+* texinfo.tex:
+ . bug fix for pdf-format table of contents.
+* info:
+ . bug fixes for -R (--raw-escapes).
+ . --help shows short option names.
+* Distribution:
+ . the doc.c, funs.h, and key.c files in info/ are no longer generated
+ at make time, to appease Automake's make distcheck.
+ . gettext 0.11.1, autoconf 2.53, automake 1.6 (with install-info kludge).
+
+
+4.1 (4 March 2002)
+* Language:
+ . new commands @verbatim and @verb for printing verbatim inserts.
+ . new command @verbatiminclude for verbatim include of files.
+ . new environment @documentdescription for defining the HTML description.
+ . new command @afivepaper for the A5 paper size.
+* makeinfo:
+ . supports xml and docbook output.
+ . supports HTML splitting by node, which is now the default.
+ . new option --split-size to control maximum size of split info files.
+ . new option --enable-encoding to enable
+* info:
+ . user-specified key bindings supported.
+ . ANSI escape sequences (as produced by groff) removed from man output
+ by default; use --raw-escapes to let them through if your terminal
+ supports them.
+ . RET terminates incremental search normally.
+* texinfo.tex:
+ . @math implies @tex, so all the usual plain TeX math is supported.
+ . smaller fonts for @smallexample, in all page sizes.
+ . improvements in the PDF support.
+* texi2dvi:
+ . new option -o to explicitly specify output filename.
+* Distribution:
+ . switch to GNU Free Documentation License (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/).
+ . update to GNU gettext 0.11, autoconf 2.52, and automake 1.5.
+ . Danish, Swedish, and Hebrew message translations.
+
+
+4.0 (28 September 1999)
+* Language:
+ . New command @anchor for cross references to arbitrary points.
+ . New commands @documentlanguage sets the main document language,
+ and @documentencoding sets the document input encoding (although not
+ much is done yet with either).
+ . New command @pagesizes allows limited control of text area for typesetting.
+ . New command @acronym for abbreviations in all caps, such as `NASA'.
+ . New command @alias for simple command aliases.
+ . New command @definfoenclose for better control of info output.
+ . New commands @deftypeivar for typed instance variables of a class
+ and @deftypeop for typed operations of a class.
+ . New command @novalidate suppresses cross-reference checking and (in
+ TeX) auxiliary file creation.
+ . New commands @setcontentsaftertitlepage and
+ @setshortcontentsaftertitlepage to force printing the table of
+ contents after @end titlepage. Also, @contents and @shortcontents
+ themselves can now appear at the beginning of the document as
+ well as the end.
+ . New markup commands: @env (for environment variables), @command (for
+ command names), @option (for command-line options).
+ . New commands @smallformat and @smalldisplay, a la @smallexample.
+ . New command @exampleindent to set indentation of example-like
+ environments a la @paragraphindent.
+ . @uref takes an optional third argument of text to show instead of
+ (rather than in addition to) the url for info and dvi output.
+ . @footnote works in an @item for a @table.
+* texinfo.tex:
+ . latest version always at ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/texinfo/texinfo.tex
+ (and mirrors).
+ . implements @macro.
+ . implements @paragraphindent (except asis).
+ . @emph and @i use true italic type (cmti) instead of slanted (cmsl).
+ . implements pdf output when run with pdftex.
+ . better support for internationalization via txi-??.tex files.
+ . footnotes now set in a smaller point size.
+* makeinfo:
+ . supports HTML output with the --html option.
+ . implication of --html: @top nodes should be wrapped in @ifnottex
+ rather than @ifinfo. @ifinfo conditionals are not expanded with --html.
+ . new option --number-sections to output chapter/section numbers.
+ . dashes and quotes are not treated specially in node names.
+ . new option --commands-in-node-names to allow @-commands in node names.
+ (Not implemented in TeX, and most likely never will be.)
+ . @emph output uses _underscores_.
+ . @image looks for .png files before .jpg.
+ . only output `Making ... file' line when verbose.
+ . allow -v as synonym for --verbose.
+ . new command line options to specify which conditionals to process
+ (but --iftex is not fully implemented).
+ . warns if @var contains any of ,[]().
+ . @quote-arg implicitly done for all one-argument macros, so commas in
+ the argument text are allowed.
+ . \\ required in macro body to get single \, no other `escapes' defined.
+* info:
+ . ISO Latin 1 characters are displayed and input as-is by default.
+ . new option --vi-keys to enable vi-like and less-like key bindings.
+ . new command S does case-sensitive searching.
+ . new commands C-x n and C-x N repeat last search, respectively, in the
+ same and in reverse direction, without prompting for the string. These
+ commands are bound to n and N under --vi-keys, like in Less.
+ . new command G menu1 menu2 ... searches for menu items from (dir),
+ as allowed on the command line.
+ . new command O (capital o, not zero) goes directly to the node that
+ describes command-line options.
+ . new command-line option --show-options causes the node which
+ describes command-line options to be the first node displayed.
+ . M-prior and M-DEL do new command info-scroll-other-window-backward.
+ . / searches like s does.
+ . If the search string includes upper-case letters, in both incremental
+ and non-incremental search, the search is case-sensitive.
+ . S searches case-sensitively even if the search string is all
+ lower-case.
+ . - makes the argument negative (so e.g. `- /' searches backward).
+ . l restores point in the window returned to.
+ . SPC/DEL do not move outside the current document.
+ . foo.info is found before foo.
+ . `info foo --index-search=bar' now searches for bar in foo's index.
+ . support for files compressed with bzip2.
+* install-info:
+ . handles gzipped dir files.
+ . sort entries into alphabetical order.
+ . install direntries only in preceding dircategory, not in all.
+ . --delete does not require the info file to exist.
+ . --delete can handle XEmacs-style dir entries.
+* texi2dvi:
+ . bug fixed: now uses only the @iftex and @tex parts of the source.
+ . process LaTeX source as well as Texinfo source.
+ . output PDF (using pdftex) with new option --pdf.
+ . handles --OPTION=ARG style of command line arguments.
+ . new option --batch for progress reports but no interaction.
+ . new option --clean to remove all auxiliary files.
+ . new option --quiet for silence (unless there are errors).
+ . new option -I for specifying directories for @include to search.
+ . handles LaTeX files (running BibTeX etc.).
+* Fixes to util/gen-dir-node and util/fix-info-dir (formerly util/update-info).
+* Distribution:
+ . Man pages included.
+ . Czech and Norwegian message translations.
+ . Various translations for texinfo.tex fixed words included.
+ . DJGPP support.
+
+
+3.12 (3 March 1998)
+* Elisp files removed, since they are only usefully distributed with Emacs.
+* Restore inclusion of compile-time $(infodir) to INFOPATH.
+* install-info creates a proper dir file.
+* Various portability fixes.
+
+
+3.11 (31 July 1997)
+* New commands:
+ - @uref to make a reference to a url; @url now only indicates such.
+ - @image to include graphics (epsf for TeX).
+ - @deftypemethod and @deftypemethodx to document methods in strongly
+ typed object-oriented languages, such as C++.
+ - @html for raw HTML.
+ - @ifnothtml @ifnotinfo @ifnottex for more precise conditionals.
+ - @kbdinputstyle to control when @kbd uses the slanted typewriter font.
+ - @email takes second optional argument.
+* texinfo.tex reads texinfo.cnf (if present) for site-wide TeX
+ configuration; for example, A4 paper sizes.
+* info:
+ - arrow keys supported.
+ - trailing : in INFOPATH appends default path.
+ - new option --index-search for online help support.
+* makeinfo:
+ - output files removed if errors unless (new option) --force.
+ - new option -P to prepend to search path.
+ - macro expansion file can be standard output.
+* install-info creates a new dir file if necessary.
+* update-info script to create a dir file from all info files.
+* Elisp: texnfo-tex.el and detexinfo.el removed from the distribution;
+ - texnfo-tex features are now part of standard TeX & Texinfo packages;
+ - makeinfo --no-headers does a better job than detexinfo.el.
+* Documentation:
+ - Updates, revisions, corrections in the manual.
+ - makeinfo.texi removed, as it was a copy of what was in texinfo.texi.
+* gettext support in sources, French and German translations included.
+* info man page removed; use the Texinfo manual.
+* Automake used, other portability fixes.
+
+3.10 (omitted)
+
+
+3.9 (4 October 1996)
+* makeinfo:
+ - Give a suppressible (with --no-validate) error for references
+ outside of any node.
+ - Keep track of multitable output correctly for split files; this
+ caused nodes after the first multitable to be ``undefined''.
+* install-info:
+ - Rename --infodir option to --info-dir.
+ - More robust error checking to avoid various crashes.
+* configure: Include replacements for memcpy and memmove functions in
+ the distribution, in case they are missing.
+
+
+3.8 (30 September 1996)
+* Define and/or document new and/or previously existing commands:
+ Accents: @" @' @, @" @= @^ @` @~ @H @d @dotaccent @dotless @ringaccent
+ @tieaccent @u @ubaraccent @v
+ Special characters: @AA @AE @L @O @OE @aa @ae @exclamdown @l @o @oe
+ @pounds @questiondown @ss
+ Special punctuation: @! @? @enddots
+ dir file maintenance: @dircategory @direntry; also new program, install-info
+ HTML support: @email @url @ifhtml...@end ifhtml
+ Macros: @macro @unmacro
+ Tables: @multitable @tab
+ Hyphenation: @- @hyphenation
+ Spacing: @ @<TAB> @<NEWLINE>
+ Sectioning:
+ @headings singleafter/doubleafter (change heading style after current page)
+ @centerchap
+ @setchapterstyle
+ Other:
+ @shorttitlepage (simple title pages)
+ @detailmenu...@end detailmenu (help makeinfo parse master menus)
+* Makeinfo prefers an input file named `foo.texinfo' or `foo.texi' or
+ `foo.txinfo' to just `foo' (the latter most likely being an executable).
+* Makeinfo implements @. @! @? correctly, as end-of-sentence punctuation.
+* @key marks its argument with a lozenge in TeX and <...> in Info.
+* TeX output has substantially decreased interline spacing and other
+ formatting changes.
+* Remove these obsolete and never-documented commands:
+ @infotop
+ @infoappendix @infoappendixsec @infoappendixsubsec @infoappendixsubsubsec
+ @infochapter @infosection @infosubsection @infosubsubsection
+ @infounnumbered @infounnumberedsec @infounnumberedsubsec
+ @infounnumberedsubsubsec
+ @input
+ @smallbreak @medbreak
+ @overfullrule
+ @br
+* Deprecate these obsolete commands, to be removed in the next release:
+ @ctrl
+ @infoinclude
+ @iappendix @iappendixsection @iappendixsec @iappendixsubsec
+ @iappendixsubsubsec
+ @ichapter @isection @isubsection @isubsubsection
+ @iunnumbered @iunnumberedsec @iunnumberedsubsec @iunnumberedsubsubsec
+ @setchapterstyle
+ @titlespec
+
+
+3.7 (24 December 1995)
+* Have --version print texinfo release number as well as the individual
+ program version.
+* Better man page cleaning.
+* Update Elisp files from current Emacs release.
+
+
+3.6 (21 June 1995)
+* Unmatched brace error reporting improved.
+* Missing comment terminator prevented compilation.
+
+
+3.5 (20 June 1995)
+* Autoconf update.
+* Support for parallel makes.
+* make install does not install Elisp files.
+
+
+3.4 (19 June 1995)
+* Handle @ifhtml in Elisp.
+* Update FSF address.
+
+
+3.3 (15 June 1995)
+* Portability changes.
+* Compile Elisp files.
+* Don't distribute .info* files.
+
+
+3.2 (9 June 1995)
+* Standalone Info can read Unix man pages.
+* New commands: @! @? @^ @" @enddots.
+* makeinfo -E does macro expansion (and nothing else).
+
+
+3.1 (23 May 1993)
+Just bug fixes, see ChangeLog for full details.
+
+
+3.0: first release of Texinfo version 2, with many new commands.
+
+
+
+Here is the separate NEWS for old releases of Info:
+
+Version 2.11, Sat Apr 1 09:15:21 1995
+
+Changes since 2.7 beta:
+
+Although the basic code remains the same, there are numerous nits
+fixed, including some display bugs, and a memory leak. Some changes
+that have taken place with larger impact include the way in which the
+(dir) node is built; I have added in support for "localdir"
+directories among other things. Info files may be stored in
+compressed formats, and in their own subdirectories; menu items which
+do not explicitly name the node to which they are attached have the
+menu item name looked up as an Info file if it is not found within the
+current document. This means that the menu item:
+
+* Info:: The Info documentation reader.
+
+in (dir) refers to the info node "(info)Top".
+
+Please see the ChangeLog and documentation for details on other
+changes.
+
+Version 2.7 beta, Wed Dec 30 02:02:38 1992
+Version 2.6 beta, Tue Dec 22 03:58:07 1992
+Version 2.5 beta, Tue Dec 8 14:50:35 1992
+Version 2.4 beta, Sat Nov 28 14:34:02 1992
+Version 2.3 beta, Fri Nov 27 01:04:13 1992
+Version 2.2 beta, Tue Nov 24 09:36:08 1992
+Version 2.1 beta, Tue Nov 17 23:29:36 1992
+
+Changes since 2.5 beta:
+
+Note that versions 2.6 and 2.7 Beta were only released to a select group.
+
+* "info-" removed from the front of M-x commands.
+
+* Automatic footnote display. When you enter a node which contains
+ footnotes, and the variable "automatic-footnotes" is "On", Info pops
+ up a window containing the footnotes. Likewise, when you leave that
+ node, the window containing the footnotes goes away.
+
+* Cleaner built in documentation, and documentation functions.
+
+ Use:
+ o `M-x describe-variable' to read a variable's documentation
+ o `M-x describe-key' to find out what a particular keystroke does.
+ o `M-x describe-function' to read a function's documentation.
+ o `M-x where-is' to find out what keys invoke a particular function.
+
+* Info can "tile" the displayed windows (via "M-x tile-windows"). If
+ the variable "automatic-tiling" is "On", then splitting a window or
+ deleting a window causes the remaining windows to be retiled.
+
+* You can save every keystroke you type in a "dribble file" by using the
+ `--dribble FILENAME' option. You can initially read keystrokes from an
+ alternate input stream with `--restore FILENAME', or by redirecting
+ input on the command line `info < old-dribble'.
+
+* New behaviour of menu items. If the label is the same as the
+ target node name, and the node couldn't be found in the current file,
+ treat the label as a file name. For example, a menu entry in "DIR"
+ might contain:
+
+ * Emacs:: Cool text-editor.
+
+ Info would not find the node "(dir)Emacs", so just plain "(emacs)"
+ would be tried.
+
+* New variable "ISO-Latin" allows you to use European machines with
+ 8-bit character sets.
+
+* Cleanups in echo area reading, and redisplay. Cleanups in handling the
+ window which shows possible completions.
+
+* Info can now read files that have been compressed. An array in filesys.c
+ maps extensions to programs that can decompress stdin, and write the results
+ to stdout. Currently, ".Z"/uncompress, ".z"/gunzip, and ".Y"/unyabba are
+ supported. The modeline for a compressed file shows "zz" in it.
+
+* There is a new variable "gc-compressed-files" which, if non-zero, says
+ it is okay to reclaim the file buffer space allocated to a file which
+ was compressed, if, and only if, that file's contents do not appear in
+ any history node.
+
+* New file `nodemenu.c' implements a few functions for manipulating
+ previously visited nodes. `C-x C-b' (list-visited-nodes) produces a
+ menu of the nodes that could be reached by info-history-node in some
+ window. `C-x b' (select-visited-node) is similar, but reads one of
+ the node names with completion.
+
+* Keystroke `M-r' (move_to_screen_line) allows the user to place the cursor at
+ the start of a specific screen line. Without a numeric argument, place the
+ cursor on the center line; with an arg, place the cursor on that line.
+
+* Interruptible display implemented. Basic display speedups and hacks.
+* The message "*** Tags Out of Date ***" now means what it says.
+* Index searching with `,' (info-index-next) has been improved.
+* When scrolling with C-v, C-M-v, or M-v, only "Page Only" scrolling
+ will happen.
+
+* Continuous scrolling (along with `]' (info-global-next) and `['
+ (info-global-prev) works better. `]' and `[' accept numeric
+ arguments, moving that many nodes in that case.
+
+* `C-x w' (info-toggle-wrap) controls how lines wider than the width
+ of the screen are displayed. If a line is too long, a `$' is
+ displayed in the rightmost column of the window.
+
+* There are some new variables for controlling the behaviour of Info
+ interactively. The current list of variables is as follows:
+
+ Variable Name Default Value Description
+ ------------- ------------- -----------
+ `automatic-footnotes' On When "On", footnotes appear and
+ disappear automatically.
+
+ `automatic-tiling' Off When "On", creating of deleting a
+ window resizes other windows.
+
+ `visible-bell' Off If non-zero, try to use a visible bell.
+
+ `errors-ring-bell' On If non-zero, errors cause a ring.
+
+ `show-index-match' On If non-zero, the portion of the string
+ matched is highlighted by changing its
+ case.
+
+ `scroll-behaviour' Continuous One of "Continuous", "Next Only", or
+ "Page Only". "Page Only" prevents you from
+ scrolling past the bottom or top of a node.
+ "Next Only" causes the Next or Prev node to
+ be selected when you scroll past the bottom
+ or top of a node. "Continous" moves
+ linearly through the files hierarchical
+ structure.
+
+ `scroll-step' 0 Controls how scrolling is done for you when
+ the cursor moves out of the current window.
+ Non-zero means it is the number of lines
+ you would like the screen to shift. A
+ value of 0 means to center the line
+ containing the cursor in the window.
+
+ `gc-compressed-files' Off If non-zero means it is okay to reclaim the
+ file buffer space allocated to a file which
+ was compressed, if, and only if, that
+ file's contents do not appear in the node
+ list of any window.
+
+ `ISO-Latin' Off Non-zero means that you are using an ISO
+ Latin character set. By default, standard
+ ASCII characters are assumed.
+________________________________________
+This release of Info is version 2.5 beta.
+
+Changes since 2.4 beta:
+
+* Index (i) and (,) commands fully implemented.
+* "configure" script now shipped with Info.
+* New function "set-variable" allows users to set various variables.
+* User-settable behaviour on end or beginning of node scrolling. This
+ supersedes the SPC and DEL changes in 2.3 beta.
+
+________________________________________
+This release of Info is version 2.4 beta.
+
+Changes since 2.3 beta:
+
+* info-last-node now means move to the last node of this info file.
+* info-history-node means move backwards through this window's node history.
+* info-first-node moves to the first node in the Info file. This node is
+ not necessarily "Top"!
+* SPC and DEL can select the Next or Prev node after printing an informative
+ message when pressed at the end/beg of a node.
+
+----------------------------------------
+This release of Info is version 2.3 beta.
+
+Changes since 2.2 beta:
+
+* M-x command lines if NAMED_COMMANDS is #defined. Variable in Makefile.
+* Screen height changes made quite robust.
+* Interactive function "set-screen-height" implements user height changes.
+* Scrolling on some terminals is faster now.
+* C-l with numeric argument is fixed.
+
+----------------------------------------
+This release of Info is version 2.2 beta.
+
+Changes since 2.0:
+
+* C-g can now interrupt multi-file searches.
+* Incremental search is fully implemented.
+* Loading large tag tables is much faster now.
+* makedoc.c replaces shell script, speeding incremental builds.
+* Scrolling in redisplay is implemented.
+* Recursive uses of the echo area made more robust.
+* Garbage collection of unreferenced nodes.