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Copyright (C) 1992, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 2000, 01, 02
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Free Software Foundation.
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Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document
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under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.1 or
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any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no
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This file records noteworthy changes.
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$Id: NEWS,v 1.103 2004/12/24 16:43:58 karl Exp $
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This file records noteworthy changes, very tersely.
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See the manual for detailed information.
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Copyright (C) 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000,
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2001, 2002, 2003, 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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Copying and distribution of this file, with or without modification,
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are permitted in any medium without royalty provided the copyright
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notice and this notice are preserved.
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*** IMPORTANT NEWS FOR ALL AUTHORS OF TEXINFO MANUALS ***
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As of version 4.2, Texinfo has a new command @copying to define the
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copyright and copying permissions for a manual. It's important to
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switch to using it as soon as possible (as in your next release),
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because the historical method of doing copyright permissions using
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@ifinfo failed to output copyright information in the HTML (or XML)
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formats. The manual has detailed explanations and examples. For
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convenience, here's a url to one of the relevant sections:
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http://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/manual/texinfo/html_node/Document-Permissions.html
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4.8 (31 December 2004)
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. new command @euro for the Euro currency symbol, and
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@documentencoding has some support for ISO-8859-15.
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. new command @abbr for general abbreviations.
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. new command @slanted to typeset text in a slanted font,
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and @sansserif to typeset in a sans serif font.
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. An empty first argument to cross-reference commands, such as @xref,
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causes an error. This change was made in 4.1, but not mentioned in NEWS.
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- <a name="..."> constructs are added for the old-style
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conversion of node names to HTML names, so that external references
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to them can continue to work.
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- "g_t" prefixed to targets for node names beginning with a
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nonletter, for XHTML compatibility.
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. Docbook output: recognize more image formats.
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. new option --recode, to call recode for input character translation.
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. new convenience script texi2pdf, equivalent to texi2dvi --pdf (from tetex).
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. some cross-compiling support in configure && make.
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. new configure option --disable-install-warnings, for TeX.
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distributions which do have the files installed.
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. new commands @float, @caption, @shortcaption, @listoffloats for
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initial implementation of floating material (figures, tables, etc).
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Ironically, they do not yet actually float anywhere.
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. new commands @docbook, @ifdocbook, @ifnotdocbook for conditional Docbook.
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. new commands @ordf{} and @ordm{} for Spanish feminine/masculine ordinals.
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. new commands @deftypecv[x] for class variables in typed OO languages.
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. new command @registeredsymbol for the r-in-a-circle symbol.
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. new command @headitem to make a heading row in @multitable.
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. new command @LaTeX{} for the LaTeX logo.
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. new command @comma{} to avoid comma-parsing problems.
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. @url is now a synonym for @uref; new command @indicateurl has the
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old meaning of just displaying a url as text.
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. @quotation now accepts an optional argument for labelling the text
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as a `Note', `Tip', etc.
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. @defun (et al.) heading lines can now be continued with a lone @.
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. @acronym accepts an optional argument for the meaning of the acronym.
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. New environment variable TEXINFO_OUTPUT_FORMAT determines the output
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format at runtime, if no options are specified.
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. New option --plaintext, equivalent to --no-headers with Info output.
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- sections are numbered by default.
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- punctuation is inserted after @pxref and @ref, if needed to make
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cross-references valid.
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- line numbers included in index menus, so Info readers can go to
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the exact line of an entry, not just a node. Also in plaintext output.
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- ^@^H[index^@^H] cookie included in index menus, so Info readers
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can handle the ] etc. commands better.
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- new algorithm for cross-references to other manuals, for maximum
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portability and stability.
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- include node name in <title> with split output.
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- @multicolumn fractions become percentages.
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- entities used for bullets, quotes, dashes, and others.
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- index entries are links to the exact locations.
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- <h4> and <h5> used for @sub and @subsubsections again.
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- accented dotless i supported.
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. XML output: many new tags and structure to preserve more source features.
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- upgraded DTD to Docbook XML 4.2, no longer using Docbook SGML.
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- improved translation in general, for instance:
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- line annotations and marked quotations.
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. if available, use etex (pdfetex if --pdf) by default.
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. if the input file includes thumbpdf.sty (for LaTeX), then run thumbpdf.
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. more output if --debug.
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. @defun names are now printed in typewriter (instead of bold), and
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within the arguments, @var text is printed in slanted typewriter.
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. @tex code is executed inside a TeX group, so that any changes must
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be prefixed with \global (or the equivalent) to be effective. (This
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change was actually made years ago, but never made it into the NEWS.)
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. new option --where (aka --location, -w) to report where an Info file
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would be found, instead of reading it.
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. by default, output ANSI terminal escape sequences as-is; new option
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--no-raw-escapes overrides this.
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. use the newly-generated index line numbers.
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. new script gendocs.sh (not installed), for use by GNU maintainers in
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getting their manuals on the GNU web site. Documented in
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maintain.texi (http://www.gnu.org/prep/maintain/).
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. Most code uses ANSI C prototypes, to some extent.
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. New translation: nb.
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. automake 1.8.3, autoconf 2.59, gettext 0.14.1.
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. new command @/ specifies an allowable breakpoint within a line.
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. new command @dofirstparagraphindent to control whether the first
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paragraph following a section heading is indented. Default is to
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omit this indentation, unlike the output up to now.
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. new command @indent for explicitly indenting a paragraph.
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. makeinfo writes a new construct for @image in Info output, so that
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graphical Info browsers (such as Emacs Info under X) can display an
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actual image. (Standalone Info ignores this, since it runs in a tty.)
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- search for image files in the include file search path.
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- warns if @value is used on an undefined variable.
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- default --split-size now 300,000 bytes, up from 50,000.
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- with --enable-encoding and a given @documentencoding,
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output a Local Variables section specifying that encoding, for use
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- uses <h3> at the smallest.
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- a few css <style> definitions are included to better
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implement @format, @display, @small..., etc.
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- new option --css-include=FILE includes FILE in the <style>.
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- @cartouche now outputs a <table> with a border.
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. new Polish translation txi-pl.tex.
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. --command=CMD replaces --texinfo=CMD; it inserts CMD at the first
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line of LaTeX files now, or after the @setfilename for Texinfo files.
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. RET now goes to the nearest xref (rather like Emacs Info),
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instead of the next xref starting on the current line.
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. new Romanian (ro) translation.
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. variables now declared const where appropriate.
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. gettext 0.12.1, automake 1.7.5.
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4.5 (4 February 2003)
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. a bug in 4.4 prevented compressed info files from being found.
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. detect sys/ptem.h on Solaris.
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4.4 (31 January 2003)
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. The ' (ASCII apostrophe/right quote) character is finally allowed in
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node and anchor names. Thus, after installing this texinfo.tex,
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existing .aux files will cause errors! Remove them and rerun TeX to
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. @value constructs are now expanded in the filename arguments to
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@include and @verbatiminclude.
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. @macro names may no longer include ^ or _, for the sake of math mode.
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. bug fix: @copying text is now reflected in tag table positions;
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before, nodes may not have been found with a long-enough @copying.
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. bug fix: html @verb arg is quoted properly, and does not imply
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. @smallexample and the like now output in a smaller font (9pt) in all
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paper formats, not just @smallbook and @afourpaper.
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. new translation txi-tr.tex.
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. bug fix: <>| and other characters do not disappear when they are
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first on a line in @verbatim.
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. bug fix: don't translate the `* Menu' info keyword.
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. CTRL-H is treated like DEL in incremental search.
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. arrow keys once again work in isearch contexts under Solaris.
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. use .info key bindings before defaults.
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. allow prefix keys to be disabled.
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. update to GNU FDL 1.2 (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/fdl.html).
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. getopt and other common library files updated from gnulib
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(http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/gnulib/).
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. autoconf 2.57, automake 1.7.2.
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4.3 (14 November 2002)
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. new command @tie{} to do a real tie (unbreakable interword space).
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. html output for @defun and friends now has font changes.
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. html output has some class attributes.
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. xml and docbook output improved in many details.
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. new Italian translations, txi-it.tex.
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. pdf bookmarks for unnumbered sections work.
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. type name for @defun and friends no longer extends into margin.
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. automatic-footnotes now off by default, for emacs compatibility.
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. crash when MALLOC_CHECK_=2 fixed.
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. new option --infodir synonym for --info-dir, for compatibility with
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the Debian install-info.
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. support for bzip2-compressed files.
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. omit initial if the entire index is under one character.
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. development sources now available under CVS, see
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http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/texinfo/
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. Turkish message translation.
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. gettext 0.11.5, autoconf 2.54, automake 1.7.1.
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. new command @copying to define copying permissions. See above.
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. new conditionals @ifplaintext, @ifnotplaintext for the plain text
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(--no-headers) output format.
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. new command @\ to produce literal \ inside @math, since \ by itself
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. emit accesskey attributes for keyboard shortcuts to menu items.
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. @{even,every,odd}{footing,header} are ignored by makeinfo now, so
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they no longer need to be enclosed in @iftex.
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. bug fix for pdf-format table of contents.
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. bug fixes for -R (--raw-escapes).
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. --help shows short option names.
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. the doc.c, funs.h, and key.c files in info/ are no longer generated
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at make time, to appease Automake's make distcheck.
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. gettext 0.11.1, autoconf 2.53, automake 1.6 (with install-info kludge).
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