- 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>
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