- Update from version 7.0.3 to 7.1
- Update of rootfile
- Changelog
7.1 (18 October 2023)
* Language
. new generic definition commands, @defblock, @defline and @deftypeline,
for definitions without automatic index entries
. new @linemacro facility eases use of generic definition commands
. new command @link creates plain links (supported output formats only)
. @cartouche takes an argument to specify the cartouche title
. you can use the new commands @nodedescription and @nodedescriptionblock
to give text to be used in menu descriptions in Info and HTML output
* texi2any
. @itemx at the beginning of a @table is now an error, not a warning
. better validity checking of deeply nested commands
. check that @set and @clear only appear at the start of a line
. warn about missing menu entries even if CHECK_NORMAL_MENU_STRUCTURE is
not set. you can turn this off by setting CHECK_MISSING_MENU_ENTRY to 0.
. no longer use --enable-encoding and --disable-encoding to determine
whether to output encoded characters (instead of entities or commands)
for HTML, XML, DocBook and LaTeX; instead, use the value of the
OUTPUT_CHARACTERS customization variable.
. stricter checks on input encoding, in particular more warnings and
errors with malformed UTF-8
. support any input file encoding if support exists in the operating
system, not just a selected list of encodings
. resolve an alias referring to another alias at definition time
. internally, use "source marks" to keep all Texinfo source information that
is not in the final tree (location of macros, values and included files
expansion, @if* blocks, DEL comment, and @ protecting end of line on @def*
lines)
. HTML output:
. format @subentry and index entries with @seealso or @seeentry in a more
similar way to printed output
. output @shortcontents before @contents by default
. omit colons after index entries by default. this can still be
configured with INDEX_ENTRY_COLON.
. add @example syntax highlighting as a texi2any extension
. no more capitalization of @sc argument in HTML Cross-references
. change @point expansion to U+22C6 in HTML Cross-references
. if a @node is not associated with a sectioning command but is
followed by a heading command not usually associated to nodes
such as @heading and this command appears before other formatted
content, the heading command is assumed to supply the node heading.
you can customize this with USE_NEXT_HEADING_FOR_LONE_NODE.
. Info output:
. new variable ASCII_DASHES_AND_QUOTES, on by default,
outputs ASCII characters for literal quote or hyphen characters
in source, rather than UTF-8. this makes it easier to search
Info files.
. new ASCII_GLYPH variable for using ASCII renditions for glyph
commands (like @bullet)
. ASCII_PUNCTUATION still includes the effect of these new variables.
. new variables AUTO_MENU_DESCRIPTION_ALIGN_COLUMN and AUTO_MENU_MAX_WIDTH
control the format of descriptions in generated menus
. XML output:
. place menu leading text and menu separators in elements instead
of attributes
* texi2dvi
. macro expansion with texi2any requires at least version 5.0 (only
happens with --expand option or with very old texinfo.tex)
* texinfo.tex
. in @code, ` and ' output by default with backtick and undirected
single quote glyphs in the typewriter font. you can still configure
this using the @codequoteundirected/@codequotebacktick commands.
. do not insert a space for @ def line continuation, matching the behavior
of texi2any
. align section titles in table of contents when more than 10 sections
. microtype is off by default, for speed
. page headings generation is no longer linked to the @titlepage command
* info
. when going Up, position cursor on menu entry for current node
. allow mouse scrolling support regardless of termcap entries. this
supports some more xterm configurations.
. do not use "/index" as a possible file extension for Info files
* Distribution
. autoconf 2.71, automake 1.16.5, gettext 0.21
Signed-off-by: Adolf Belka <adolf.belka@ipfire.org>
- Update from version 6.8 to 7.0.2
- Update of rootfile
- Removal of patch which was needed due to inability to build texinfo-6.8 with glibc-2.34
Problem was fixed for building with glibc-2.34 and onwards with texinfo-7.0
- Changelog
7.0.2 (22 January 2023)
This is a bug-fix release with minimal changes.
* texi2any
. do not distribute architecture-dependent files
. build fixed on OpenIndiana 11
* info
. further fix of recoding of UTF-8 files to ASCII
. fix check for presence of man pages on Solaris
* install-info
. fix build by avoiding function name clash on some platforms
. compiler warning re strncat silenced
7.0.1 (30 November 2022)
This is a bug-fix release with minimal changes.
* texi2any
. avoid crashes on empty @image argument and other potential crashes
(with "Can't use an undefined value as an ARRAY reference" message)
. avoid hang on @ref command inside section command
* info
. fix recoding of UTF-8 files to ASCII when run in C locale
* js
. index search fixed for new HTML output
. some obsolete files removed from distribution
7.0 (7 November 2022)
* texi2any
. LaTeX added as an output format, selected with --latex
. EPUB 3 added as an output format, selected with --epub3
. reform throughout the code in general
. thorough review of character encoding issues
. new customization variables involved with character encoding:
INPUT_FILE_NAME_ENCODING, OUTPUT_FILE_NAME_ENCODING,
DOC_ENCODING_FOR_INPUT_FILE_NAME, DOC_ENCODING_FOR_OUTPUT_FILE_NAME,
MESSAGE_ENCODING and COMMAND_LINE_ENCODING
. warn if full-text commands (@ref, @footnote, @anchor) appear in @w
. new variable NO_TOP_NODE_OUTPUT
. IGNORE_BEFORE_SETFILENAME variable removed. former effect
is now always on.
. HTML output:
. use manual_name_html as output directory for split HTML instead of
manual_name or manual_name.html
. default DOCTYPE declaration changed to plain HTML5 style rather than
HTML4 DTD reference
. output only the CSS rules that are needed in an output file
. remove CSS_LINES variable and add SHOW_BUILTIN_CSS_RULES
(custom CSS can still be output using EXTRA_HEAD)
. use <code> tag for the output of @t and @verb instead of <tt>
. use <abbr> for @acronym instead of <acronym>
. link to table of contents from short table of contents only if a
table of contents is actually output
. prefix classes from @example arguments with `user-'
. percent encode URL in @url/@uref, @email, @image and external
manual file
. new USE_XML_SYNTAX, HTML_ROOT_ELEMENT_ATTRIBUTES and
NO_CUSTOM_HTML_ATTRIBUTE variables can be used to output
valid XHTML
. systematic addition of classes attribute in HTML elements based on the
Texinfo @-command names. renaming of class attributes to avoid
confusion with @-commands formatting and describe the role in the
document rather than the formatting style.
. COPIABLE_ANCHORS renamed to COPIABLE_LINKS
. do not add a title by default; SHOW_TITLE or NO_TOP_NODE_OUTPUT has
to be set
. USE_TITLEPAGE_FOR_TITLE is now true by default
. L2H variable removed, replaced by HTML_MATH set to `l2h'
. rename OVERVIEW_LINK_TO_TOC to SHORT_TOC_LINK_TO_TOC
. rename BEFORE_OVERVIEW to BEFORE_SHORT_TOC_LINE
. rename AFTER_OVERVIEW to AFTER_SHORT_TOC_LINES
. remove PRE_ABOUT, AFTER_ABOUT, and add PROGRAM_NAME_IN_ABOUT
. remove KEEP_TOP_EXTERNAL_REF
. new variables IGNORE_REF_TO_TOP_NODE_UP, CONVERT_TO_LATEX_IN_MATH,
HTMLXREF_MODE and HTMLXREF_FILE
. DocBook output:
. do not output Top node or text before the first @node or sectioning
@-command. NO_TOP_NODE_OUTPUT can be set to false to output Top node
for now.
. replace @definfocenlose defined @-commands by the argument as-is
to be more consistent with printed output
. HTML/DocBook output:
. USE_NUMERIC_ENTITY changed to mean to use numeric entities instead
of named entities. former effect is now always on.
. ENABLE_ENCODING_USE_ENTITY variable removed. former effect is now
always off.
. Info output
. quote problematic node names (with :, comma...) by default
. new customization variable ASCII_PUNCTUATION to use plain ASCII
characters for quotation marks and a few other symbols
* texinfo.tex
. `@microtype on' uses microtypography in formatting for pdfTeX and LuaTeX
. do not ignore @part page immediately following Top node
. do `@set txicodevaristt' to get slanted typewriter for @var in code,
`@clear txicodevaristt' to use slanted, variable-width roman font for
@var everywhere. flag is @set by default, but we may turn this off
in the future.
. new file doc/texinfo-zh.tex for Texinfo documents in Chinese.
new support file doc/txi-zh.tex for Chinese. doc/short-sample-zh.texi is
a sample document.
* info
. better support for index entries containing parentheses
. better support for getting bold text etc. when displaying manpages
. bug fixed where the first index entry in a file could be ignored
. M-C-f closes as well as opens footnotes window
. do not crash if run in Brazilian Portuguese locale
* Language
. @deftype* commands use typewriter font in argument list
. new commands @latex, @iflatex, @ifnotlatex for new LaTeX output format
. do `@set txidefnamenospace' to omit space after a definition name
* Other
. build fixed for glibc 2.34
Signed-off-by: Adolf Belka <adolf.belka@ipfire.org>
- Update from 6.7 to 6.8
- Update rootfile
- Changelog is too large to include here. Full details can be found in the
ChangeLog file in the source tarball
Following is the content of the NEWS file from the source tarball which highlights
noteworthy changes, very tersely.
6.8 (3 July 2021)
* Language
. new command @displaymath for formatting of mathematical notation
. @example takes an argument to specify the language
. mark these commands as deprecated, not to be used:
@centerchap, @definfoenclose, @refill, @inforef.
. new paper size @bsixpaper
* texi2any
. should be faster as Perl XS parser is enabled by default
. SHOW_MENU customization variable replaced by FORMAT_MENU.
FORMAT_MENU set to 'menu' is the same as SHOW_MENU set to 1, and
FORMAT_MENU set to 'nomenu' is the same as SHOW_MENU set to 0.
. only check menu structure if CHECK_NORMAL_MENU_STRUCTURE variable is set
. changes to HTML output:
. MathJax support for display of math. new variables HTML_MATH,
MATHJAX_SCRIPT and MATHJAX_SOURCE.
. new variables JS_WEBLABELS and JS_WEBLABELS_FILE to support
JavaScript License Web Labels
. by default, use sectional tables of contents instead of menus
. use section names in links by default (configure with
xrefautomaticsectiontitle customization variable)
. CONTENTS_OUTPUT_LOCATION sets location of table of contents
. document sections wrapped in <div> elements
. new variable USE_NODE_DIRECTIONS to use node or section structure
for node directions
. copiable anchor links for definitions with COPIABLE_ANCHORS variable
. experimental JavaScript browsing interface enabled with INFO_JS_DIR
. don't add an extra period before file extension given as an argument
to @image if image file is not found
* info
. support compressed dir files
* texi2dvi
. stop on first error in input file
* texinfo.tex
. put logical page numbers into PDF's ('page labels')
. put chapter numbers in the PDF outline
. new Finnish translation
* Distribution
. autoconf 2.71, automake 1.16.3, gettext 0.21
Signed-off-by: Adolf Belka <adolf.belka@ipfire.org>
Signed-off-by: Arne Fitzenreiter <arne_f@ipfire.org>
