1$Id: NEWS,v 1.1.1.7 2006/07/17 16:03:14 espie Exp $ 2This file records noteworthy changes, very tersely. 3See the manual for detailed information. 4 5 Copyright (C) 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 6 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc. 7 8 Copying and distribution of this file, with or without modification, 9 are permitted in any medium without royalty provided the copyright 10 notice and this notice are preserved. 11 12 13*** IMPORTANT NEWS FOR ALL AUTHORS OF TEXINFO MANUALS *** 14 15As of version 4.2, Texinfo has a new command @copying to define the 16copyright and copying permissions for a manual. It's important to 17switch to using it as soon as possible (as in your next release), 18because the historical method of doing copyright permissions using 19@ifinfo failed to output copyright information in the HTML (or XML) 20formats. The manual has detailed explanations and examples. For 21convenience, here's a url to one of the relevant sections: 22 http://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/manual/texinfo/html_node/Document-Permissions.html 23 24------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 25 264.8 (31 December 2004) 27* Language: 28 . new command @euro for the Euro currency symbol, and 29 @documentencoding has some support for ISO-8859-15. 30 . new command @abbr for general abbreviations. 31 . new command @slanted to typeset text in a slanted font, 32 and @sansserif to typeset in a sans serif font. 33* makeinfo: 34 . An empty first argument to cross-reference commands, such as @xref, 35 causes an error. This change was made in 4.1, but not mentioned in NEWS. 36 . HTML output: 37 - <a name="..."> constructs are added for the old-style 38 conversion of node names to HTML names, so that external references 39 to them can continue to work. 40 - "g_t" prefixed to targets for node names beginning with a 41 nonletter, for XHTML compatibility. 42 . Docbook output: recognize more image formats. 43* texi2dvi: 44 . new option --recode, to call recode for input character translation. 45* Distribution: 46 . new convenience script texi2pdf, equivalent to texi2dvi --pdf (from tetex). 47 . some cross-compiling support in configure && make. 48 . new configure option --disable-install-warnings, for TeX. 49 distributions which do have the files installed. 50 . automake 1.9.4. 51 52 534.7 (9 April 2004) 54* Language: 55 . new commands @float, @caption, @shortcaption, @listoffloats for 56 initial implementation of floating material (figures, tables, etc). 57 Ironically, they do not yet actually float anywhere. 58 . new commands @docbook, @ifdocbook, @ifnotdocbook for conditional Docbook. 59 . new commands @ordf{} and @ordm{} for Spanish feminine/masculine ordinals. 60 . new commands @deftypecv[x] for class variables in typed OO languages. 61 . new command @registeredsymbol for the r-in-a-circle symbol. 62 . new command @headitem to make a heading row in @multitable. 63 . new command @LaTeX{} for the LaTeX logo. 64 . new command @comma{} to avoid comma-parsing problems. 65 . @url is now a synonym for @uref; new command @indicateurl has the 66 old meaning of just displaying a url as text. 67 . @quotation now accepts an optional argument for labelling the text 68 as a `Note', `Tip', etc. 69 . @defun (et al.) heading lines can now be continued with a lone @. 70 . @acronym accepts an optional argument for the meaning of the acronym. 71* makeinfo: 72 . New environment variable TEXINFO_OUTPUT_FORMAT determines the output 73 format at runtime, if no options are specified. 74 . New option --plaintext, equivalent to --no-headers with Info output. 75 . All outputs: 76 - sections are numbered by default. 77 . Info output: 78 - punctuation is inserted after @pxref and @ref, if needed to make 79 cross-references valid. 80 - line numbers included in index menus, so Info readers can go to 81 the exact line of an entry, not just a node. Also in plaintext output. 82 - ^@^H[index^@^H] cookie included in index menus, so Info readers 83 can handle the ] etc. commands better. 84 . HTML output: 85 - new algorithm for cross-references to other manuals, for maximum 86 portability and stability. 87 - include node name in <title> with split output. 88 - @multicolumn fractions become percentages. 89 - entities used for bullets, quotes, dashes, and others. 90 - index entries are links to the exact locations. 91 - <h4> and <h5> used for @sub and @subsubsections again. 92 - accented dotless i supported. 93 . XML output: many new tags and structure to preserve more source features. 94 . Docbook output: 95 - upgraded DTD to Docbook XML 4.2, no longer using Docbook SGML. 96 - improved translation in general, for instance: 97 - line annotations and marked quotations. 98* texi2dvi: 99 . if available, use etex (pdfetex if --pdf) by default. 100 . if the input file includes thumbpdf.sty (for LaTeX), then run thumbpdf. 101 . more output if --debug. 102* texinfo.tex: 103 . @defun names are now printed in typewriter (instead of bold), and 104 within the arguments, @var text is printed in slanted typewriter. 105 . @tex code is executed inside a TeX group, so that any changes must 106 be prefixed with \global (or the equivalent) to be effective. (This 107 change was actually made years ago, but never made it into the NEWS.) 108* info: 109 . new option --where (aka --location, -w) to report where an Info file 110 would be found, instead of reading it. 111 . by default, output ANSI terminal escape sequences as-is; new option 112 --no-raw-escapes overrides this. 113 . use the newly-generated index line numbers. 114* Distribution: 115 . new script gendocs.sh (not installed), for use by GNU maintainers in 116 getting their manuals on the GNU web site. Documented in 117 maintain.texi (http://www.gnu.org/prep/maintain/). 118 . Most code uses ANSI C prototypes, to some extent. 119 . New translation: nb. 120 . automake 1.8.3, autoconf 2.59, gettext 0.14.1. 121 122 1234.6 (10 June 2003) 124* Language: 125 . new command @/ specifies an allowable breakpoint within a line. 126 . new command @dofirstparagraphindent to control whether the first 127 paragraph following a section heading is indented. Default is to 128 omit this indentation, unlike the output up to now. 129 . new command @indent for explicitly indenting a paragraph. 130 . makeinfo writes a new construct for @image in Info output, so that 131 graphical Info browsers (such as Emacs Info under X) can display an 132 actual image. (Standalone Info ignores this, since it runs in a tty.) 133* makeinfo: 134 . Common: 135 - search for image files in the include file search path. 136 - warns if @value is used on an undefined variable. 137 . Info output: 138 - default --split-size now 300,000 bytes, up from 50,000. 139 - with --enable-encoding and a given @documentencoding, 140 output a Local Variables section specifying that encoding, for use 141 with Emacs. 142 . HTML output: 143 - uses <h3> at the smallest. 144 - a few css <style> definitions are included to better 145 implement @format, @display, @small..., etc. 146 - new option --css-include=FILE includes FILE in the <style>. 147 - @cartouche now outputs a <table> with a border. 148* texinfo.tex: 149 . new Polish translation txi-pl.tex. 150* texi2dvi: 151 . --command=CMD replaces --texinfo=CMD; it inserts CMD at the first 152 line of LaTeX files now, or after the @setfilename for Texinfo files. 153* info: 154 . RET now goes to the nearest xref (rather like Emacs Info), 155 instead of the next xref starting on the current line. 156* Distribution: 157 . new Romanian (ro) translation. 158 . variables now declared const where appropriate. 159 . gettext 0.12.1, automake 1.7.5. 160 161 1624.5 (4 February 2003) 163* info: 164 . a bug in 4.4 prevented compressed info files from being found. 165* Distribution: 166 . detect sys/ptem.h on Solaris. 167 168 1694.4 (31 January 2003) 170* Language: 171 . The ' (ASCII apostrophe/right quote) character is finally allowed in 172 node and anchor names. Thus, after installing this texinfo.tex, 173 existing .aux files will cause errors! Remove them and rerun TeX to 174 generate good ones. 175 . @value constructs are now expanded in the filename arguments to 176 @include and @verbatiminclude. 177* makeinfo: 178 . @macro names may no longer include ^ or _, for the sake of math mode. 179 . bug fix: @copying text is now reflected in tag table positions; 180 before, nodes may not have been found with a long-enough @copying. 181 . bug fix: html @verb arg is quoted properly, and does not imply 182 a paragraph break. 183* texinfo.tex: 184 . @smallexample and the like now output in a smaller font (9pt) in all 185 paper formats, not just @smallbook and @afourpaper. 186 . new translation txi-tr.tex. 187 . bug fix: <>| and other characters do not disappear when they are 188 first on a line in @verbatim. 189* install-info: 190 . bug fix: don't translate the `* Menu' info keyword. 191* info: 192 . CTRL-H is treated like DEL in incremental search. 193 . arrow keys once again work in isearch contexts under Solaris. 194* infokey: 195 . use .info key bindings before defaults. 196 . allow prefix keys to be disabled. 197* Distribution: 198 . update to GNU FDL 1.2 (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/fdl.html). 199 . getopt and other common library files updated from gnulib 200 (http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/gnulib/). 201 . autoconf 2.57, automake 1.7.2. 202 203 2044.3 (14 November 2002) 205* Language: 206 . new command @tie{} to do a real tie (unbreakable interword space). 207* makeinfo: 208 . html output for @defun and friends now has font changes. 209 . html output has some class attributes. 210 . xml and docbook output improved in many details. 211* texinfo.tex: 212 . new Italian translations, txi-it.tex. 213 . pdf bookmarks for unnumbered sections work. 214 . type name for @defun and friends no longer extends into margin. 215* info: 216 . automatic-footnotes now off by default, for emacs compatibility. 217 . crash when MALLOC_CHECK_=2 fixed. 218* install-info: 219 . new option --infodir synonym for --info-dir, for compatibility with 220 the Debian install-info. 221 . support for bzip2-compressed files. 222* texindex: 223 . omit initial if the entire index is under one character. 224* Distribution: 225 . development sources now available under CVS, see 226 http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/texinfo/ 227 . Turkish message translation. 228 . gettext 0.11.5, autoconf 2.54, automake 1.7.1. 229 230 2314.2 (1 April 2002) 232* Language: 233 . new command @copying to define copying permissions. See above. 234 . new conditionals @ifplaintext, @ifnotplaintext for the plain text 235 (--no-headers) output format. 236 . new command @\ to produce literal \ inside @math, since \ by itself 237 no longer works. 238* makeinfo: 239 . emit accesskey attributes for keyboard shortcuts to menu items. 240 . @{even,every,odd}{footing,header} are ignored by makeinfo now, so 241 they no longer need to be enclosed in @iftex. 242* texinfo.tex: 243 . bug fix for pdf-format table of contents. 244* info: 245 . bug fixes for -R (--raw-escapes). 246 . --help shows short option names. 247* Distribution: 248 . the doc.c, funs.h, and key.c files in info/ are no longer generated 249 at make time, to appease Automake's make distcheck. 250 . gettext 0.11.1, autoconf 2.53, automake 1.6 (with install-info kludge). 251 252 2534.1 (4 March 2002) 254* Language: 255 . new commands @verbatim and @verb for printing verbatim inserts. 256 . new command @verbatiminclude for verbatim include of files. 257 . new environment @documentdescription for defining the HTML description. 258 . new command @afivepaper for the A5 paper size. 259* makeinfo: 260 . supports xml and docbook output. 261 . supports HTML splitting by node, which is now the default. 262 . new option --split-size to control maximum size of split info files. 263 . new option --enable-encoding to enable 264* info: 265 . user-specified key bindings supported. 266 . ANSI escape sequences (as produced by groff) removed from man output 267 by default; use --raw-escapes to let them through if your terminal 268 supports them. 269 . RET terminates incremental search normally. 270* texinfo.tex: 271 . @math implies @tex, so all the usual plain TeX math is supported. 272 . smaller fonts for @smallexample, in all page sizes. 273 . improvements in the PDF support. 274* texi2dvi: 275 . new option -o to explicitly specify output filename. 276* Distribution: 277 . switch to GNU Free Documentation License (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/). 278 . update to GNU gettext 0.11, autoconf 2.52, and automake 1.5. 279 . Danish, Swedish, and Hebrew message translations. 280 281 2824.0 (28 September 1999) 283* Language: 284 . New command @anchor for cross references to arbitrary points. 285 . New commands @documentlanguage sets the main document language, 286 and @documentencoding sets the document input encoding (although not 287 much is done yet with either). 288 . New command @pagesizes allows limited control of text area for typesetting. 289 . New command @acronym for abbreviations in all caps, such as `NASA'. 290 . New command @alias for simple command aliases. 291 . New command @definfoenclose for better control of info output. 292 . New commands @deftypeivar for typed instance variables of a class 293 and @deftypeop for typed operations of a class. 294 . New command @novalidate suppresses cross-reference checking and (in 295 TeX) auxiliary file creation. 296 . New commands @setcontentsaftertitlepage and 297 @setshortcontentsaftertitlepage to force printing the table of 298 contents after @end titlepage. Also, @contents and @shortcontents 299 themselves can now appear at the beginning of the document as 300 well as the end. 301 . New markup commands: @env (for environment variables), @command (for 302 command names), @option (for command-line options). 303 . New commands @smallformat and @smalldisplay, a la @smallexample. 304 . New command @exampleindent to set indentation of example-like 305 environments a la @paragraphindent. 306 . @uref takes an optional third argument of text to show instead of 307 (rather than in addition to) the url for info and dvi output. 308 . @footnote works in an @item for a @table. 309* texinfo.tex: 310 . latest version always at ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/texinfo/texinfo.tex 311 (and mirrors). 312 . implements @macro. 313 . implements @paragraphindent (except asis). 314 . @emph and @i use true italic type (cmti) instead of slanted (cmsl). 315 . implements pdf output when run with pdftex. 316 . better support for internationalization via txi-??.tex files. 317 . footnotes now set in a smaller point size. 318* makeinfo: 319 . supports HTML output with the --html option. 320 . implication of --html: @top nodes should be wrapped in @ifnottex 321 rather than @ifinfo. @ifinfo conditionals are not expanded with --html. 322 . new option --number-sections to output chapter/section numbers. 323 . dashes and quotes are not treated specially in node names. 324 . new option --commands-in-node-names to allow @-commands in node names. 325 (Not implemented in TeX, and most likely never will be.) 326 . @emph output uses _underscores_. 327 . @image looks for .png files before .jpg. 328 . only output `Making ... file' line when verbose. 329 . allow -v as synonym for --verbose. 330 . new command line options to specify which conditionals to process 331 (but --iftex is not fully implemented). 332 . warns if @var contains any of ,[](). 333 . @quote-arg implicitly done for all one-argument macros, so commas in 334 the argument text are allowed. 335 . \\ required in macro body to get single \, no other `escapes' defined. 336* info: 337 . ISO Latin 1 characters are displayed and input as-is by default. 338 . new option --vi-keys to enable vi-like and less-like key bindings. 339 . new command S does case-sensitive searching. 340 . new commands C-x n and C-x N repeat last search, respectively, in the 341 same and in reverse direction, without prompting for the string. These 342 commands are bound to n and N under --vi-keys, like in Less. 343 . new command G menu1 menu2 ... searches for menu items from (dir), 344 as allowed on the command line. 345 . new command O (capital o, not zero) goes directly to the node that 346 describes command-line options. 347 . new command-line option --show-options causes the node which 348 describes command-line options to be the first node displayed. 349 . M-prior and M-DEL do new command info-scroll-other-window-backward. 350 . / searches like s does. 351 . If the search string includes upper-case letters, in both incremental 352 and non-incremental search, the search is case-sensitive. 353 . S searches case-sensitively even if the search string is all 354 lower-case. 355 . - makes the argument negative (so e.g. `- /' searches backward). 356 . l restores point in the window returned to. 357 . SPC/DEL do not move outside the current document. 358 . foo.info is found before foo. 359 . `info foo --index-search=bar' now searches for bar in foo's index. 360 . support for files compressed with bzip2. 361* install-info: 362 . handles gzipped dir files. 363 . sort entries into alphabetical order. 364 . install direntries only in preceding dircategory, not in all. 365 . --delete does not require the info file to exist. 366 . --delete can handle XEmacs-style dir entries. 367* texi2dvi: 368 . bug fixed: now uses only the @iftex and @tex parts of the source. 369 . process LaTeX source as well as Texinfo source. 370 . output PDF (using pdftex) with new option --pdf. 371 . handles --OPTION=ARG style of command line arguments. 372 . new option --batch for progress reports but no interaction. 373 . new option --clean to remove all auxiliary files. 374 . new option --quiet for silence (unless there are errors). 375 . new option -I for specifying directories for @include to search. 376 . handles LaTeX files (running BibTeX etc.). 377* Fixes to util/gen-dir-node and util/fix-info-dir (formerly util/update-info). 378* Distribution: 379 . Man pages included. 380 . Czech and Norwegian message translations. 381 . Various translations for texinfo.tex fixed words included. 382 . DJGPP support. 383 384 3853.12 (3 March 1998) 386* Elisp files removed, since they are only usefully distributed with Emacs. 387* Restore inclusion of compile-time $(infodir) to INFOPATH. 388* install-info creates a proper dir file. 389* Various portability fixes. 390 391 3923.11 (31 July 1997) 393* New commands: 394 - @uref to make a reference to a url; @url now only indicates such. 395 - @image to include graphics (epsf for TeX). 396 - @deftypemethod and @deftypemethodx to document methods in strongly 397 typed object-oriented languages, such as C++. 398 - @html for raw HTML. 399 - @ifnothtml @ifnotinfo @ifnottex for more precise conditionals. 400 - @kbdinputstyle to control when @kbd uses the slanted typewriter font. 401 - @email takes second optional argument. 402* texinfo.tex reads texinfo.cnf (if present) for site-wide TeX 403 configuration; for example, A4 paper sizes. 404* info: 405 - arrow keys supported. 406 - trailing : in INFOPATH appends default path. 407 - new option --index-search for online help support. 408* makeinfo: 409 - output files removed if errors unless (new option) --force. 410 - new option -P to prepend to search path. 411 - macro expansion file can be standard output. 412* install-info creates a new dir file if necessary. 413* update-info script to create a dir file from all info files. 414* Elisp: texnfo-tex.el and detexinfo.el removed from the distribution; 415 - texnfo-tex features are now part of standard TeX & Texinfo packages; 416 - makeinfo --no-headers does a better job than detexinfo.el. 417* Documentation: 418 - Updates, revisions, corrections in the manual. 419 - makeinfo.texi removed, as it was a copy of what was in texinfo.texi. 420* gettext support in sources, French and German translations included. 421* info man page removed; use the Texinfo manual. 422* Automake used, other portability fixes. 423 4243.10 (nonexistent) 425 426 4273.9 (4 October 1996) 428* makeinfo: 429 - Give a suppressible (with --no-validate) error for references 430 outside of any node. 431 - Keep track of multitable output correctly for split files; this 432 caused nodes after the first multitable to be ``undefined''. 433* install-info: 434 - Rename --infodir option to --info-dir. 435 - More robust error checking to avoid various crashes. 436* configure: Include replacements for memcpy and memmove functions in 437 the distribution, in case they are missing. 438 439 4403.8 (30 September 1996) 441* Define and/or document new and/or previously existing commands: 442 Accents: @" @' @, @" @= @^ @` @~ @H @d @dotaccent @dotless @ringaccent 443 @tieaccent @u @ubaraccent @v 444 Special characters: @AA @AE @L @O @OE @aa @ae @exclamdown @l @o @oe 445 @pounds @questiondown @ss 446 Special punctuation: @! @? @enddots 447 dir file maintenance: @dircategory @direntry; also new program, install-info 448 HTML support: @email @url @ifhtml...@end ifhtml 449 Macros: @macro @unmacro 450 Tables: @multitable @tab 451 Hyphenation: @- @hyphenation 452 Spacing: @ @<TAB> @<NEWLINE> 453 Sectioning: 454 @headings singleafter/doubleafter (change heading style after current page) 455 @centerchap 456 @setchapterstyle 457 Other: 458 @shorttitlepage (simple title pages) 459 @detailmenu...@end detailmenu (help makeinfo parse master menus) 460* Makeinfo prefers an input file named `foo.texinfo' or `foo.texi' or 461 `foo.txinfo' to just `foo' (the latter most likely being an executable). 462* Makeinfo implements @. @! @? correctly, as end-of-sentence punctuation. 463* @key marks its argument with a lozenge in TeX and <...> in Info. 464* TeX output has substantially decreased interline spacing and other 465 formatting changes. 466* Remove these obsolete and never-documented commands: 467 @infotop 468 @infoappendix @infoappendixsec @infoappendixsubsec @infoappendixsubsubsec 469 @infochapter @infosection @infosubsection @infosubsubsection 470 @infounnumbered @infounnumberedsec @infounnumberedsubsec 471 @infounnumberedsubsubsec 472 @input 473 @smallbreak @medbreak 474 @overfullrule 475 @br 476* Deprecate these obsolete commands, to be removed in the next release: 477 @ctrl 478 @infoinclude 479 @iappendix @iappendixsection @iappendixsec @iappendixsubsec 480 @iappendixsubsubsec 481 @ichapter @isection @isubsection @isubsubsection 482 @iunnumbered @iunnumberedsec @iunnumberedsubsec @iunnumberedsubsubsec 483 @setchapterstyle 484 @titlespec 485 486 4873.7 (24 December 1995) 488* Have --version print texinfo release number as well as the individual 489 program version. 490* Better man page cleaning. 491* Update Elisp files from current Emacs release. 492 493 4943.6 (21 June 1995) 495* Unmatched brace error reporting improved. 496* Missing comment terminator prevented compilation. 497 498 4993.5 (20 June 1995) 500* Autoconf update. 501* Support for parallel makes. 502* make install does not install Elisp files. 503 504 5053.4 (19 June 1995) 506* Handle @ifhtml in Elisp. 507* Update FSF address. 508 509 5103.3 (15 June 1995) 511* Portability changes. 512* Compile Elisp files. 513* Don't distribute .info* files. 514 515 5163.2 (9 June 1995) 517* Standalone Info can read Unix man pages. 518* New commands: @! @? @^ @" @enddots. 519* makeinfo -E does macro expansion (and nothing else). 520 521 5223.1 (23 May 1993) 523Just bug fixes, see ChangeLog for full details. 524 525 5263.0: first release of Texinfo version 2, with many new commands. 527 528 529 530Here is the separate NEWS for old releases of Info: 531 532Version 2.11, Sat Apr 1 09:15:21 1995 533 534Changes since 2.7 beta: 535 536Although the basic code remains the same, there are numerous nits 537fixed, including some display bugs, and a memory leak. Some changes 538that have taken place with larger impact include the way in which the 539(dir) node is built; I have added in support for "localdir" 540directories among other things. Info files may be stored in 541compressed formats, and in their own subdirectories; menu items which 542do not explicitly name the node to which they are attached have the 543menu item name looked up as an Info file if it is not found within the 544current document. This means that the menu item: 545 546* Info:: The Info documentation reader. 547 548in (dir) refers to the info node "(info)Top". 549 550Please see the ChangeLog and documentation for details on other 551changes. 552 553Version 2.7 beta, Wed Dec 30 02:02:38 1992 554Version 2.6 beta, Tue Dec 22 03:58:07 1992 555Version 2.5 beta, Tue Dec 8 14:50:35 1992 556Version 2.4 beta, Sat Nov 28 14:34:02 1992 557Version 2.3 beta, Fri Nov 27 01:04:13 1992 558Version 2.2 beta, Tue Nov 24 09:36:08 1992 559Version 2.1 beta, Tue Nov 17 23:29:36 1992 560 561Changes since 2.5 beta: 562 563Note that versions 2.6 and 2.7 Beta were only released to a select group. 564 565* "info-" removed from the front of M-x commands. 566 567* Automatic footnote display. When you enter a node which contains 568 footnotes, and the variable "automatic-footnotes" is "On", Info pops 569 up a window containing the footnotes. Likewise, when you leave that 570 node, the window containing the footnotes goes away. 571 572* Cleaner built in documentation, and documentation functions. 573 574 Use: 575 o `M-x describe-variable' to read a variable's documenation 576 o `M-x describe-key' to find out what a particular keystroke does. 577 o `M-x describe-function' to read a function's documentation. 578 o `M-x where-is' to find out what keys invoke a particular function. 579 580* Info can "tile" the displayed windows (via "M-x tile-windows"). If 581 the variable "automatic-tiling" is "On", then splitting a window or 582 deleting a window causes the remaining windows to be retiled. 583 584* You can save every keystroke you type in a "dribble file" by using the 585 `--dribble FILENAME' option. You can initially read keystrokes from an 586 alternate input stream with `--restore FILENAME', or by redirecting 587 input on the command line `info < old-dribble'. 588 589* New behaviour of menu items. If the label is the same as the 590 target node name, and the node couldn't be found in the current file, 591 treat the label as a file name. For example, a menu entry in "DIR" 592 might contain: 593 594 * Emacs:: Cool text-editor. 595 596 Info would not find the node "(dir)Emacs", so just plain "(emacs)" 597 would be tried. 598 599* New variable "ISO-Latin" allows you to use European machines with 600 8-bit character sets. 601 602* Cleanups in echo area reading, and redisplay. Cleanups in handling the 603 window which shows possible completions. 604 605* Info can now read files that have been compressed. An array in filesys.c 606 maps extensions to programs that can decompress stdin, and write the results 607 to stdout. Currently, ".Z"/uncompress, ".z"/gunzip, and ".Y"/unyabba are 608 supported. The modeline for a compressed file shows "zz" in it. 609 610* There is a new variable "gc-compressed-files" which, if non-zero, says 611 it is okay to reclaim the file buffer space allocated to a file which 612 was compressed, if, and only if, that file's contents do not appear in 613 any history node. 614 615* New file `nodemenu.c' implements a few functions for manipulating 616 previously visited nodes. `C-x C-b' (list-visited-nodes) produces a 617 menu of the nodes that could be reached by info-history-node in some 618 window. `C-x b' (select-visited-node) is similar, but reads one of 619 the node names with completion. 620 621* Keystroke `M-r' (move_to_screen_line) allows the user to place the cursor at 622 the start of a specific screen line. Without a numeric argument, place the 623 cursor on the center line; with an arg, place the cursor on that line. 624 625* Interruptible display implemented. Basic display speedups and hacks. 626* The message "*** Tags Out of Date ***" now means what it says. 627* Index searching with `,' (info-index-next) has been improved. 628* When scrolling with C-v, C-M-v, or M-v, only "Page Only" scrolling 629 will happen. 630 631* Continous scrolling (along with `]' (info-global-next) and `[' 632 (info-global-prev) works better. `]' and `[' accept numeric 633 arguments, moving that many nodes in that case. 634 635* `C-x w' (info-toggle-wrap) controls how lines wider than the width 636 of the screen are displayed. If a line is too long, a `$' is 637 displayed in the rightmost column of the window. 638 639* There are some new variables for controlling the behaviour of Info 640 interactively. The current list of variables is as follows: 641 642 Variable Name Default Value Description 643 ------------- ------------- ----------- 644 `automatic-footnotes' On When "On", footnotes appear and 645 disappear automatically. 646 647 `automatic-tiling' Off When "On", creating of deleting a 648 window resizes other windows. 649 650 `visible-bell' Off If non-zero, try to use a visible bell. 651 652 `errors-ring-bell' On If non-zero, errors cause a ring. 653 654 `show-index-match' On If non-zero, the portion of the string 655 matched is highlighted by changing its 656 case. 657 658 `scroll-behaviour' Continuous One of "Continuous", "Next Only", or 659 "Page Only". "Page Only" prevents you from 660 scrolling past the bottom or top of a node. 661 "Next Only" causes the Next or Prev node to 662 be selected when you scroll past the bottom 663 or top of a node. "Continous" moves 664 linearly through the files hierchichal 665 structure. 666 667 `scroll-step' 0 Controls how scrolling is done for you when 668 the cursor moves out of the current window. 669 Non-zero means it is the number of lines 670 you would like the screen to shift. A 671 value of 0 means to center the line 672 containing the cursor in the window. 673 674 `gc-compressed-files' Off If non-zero means it is okay to reclaim the 675 file buffer space allocated to a file which 676 was compressed, if, and only if, that 677 file's contents do not appear in the node 678 list of any window. 679 680 `ISO-Latin' Off Non-zero means that you are using an ISO 681 Latin character set. By default, standard 682 ASCII characters are assumed. 683________________________________________ 684This release of Info is version 2.5 beta. 685 686Changes since 2.4 beta: 687 688* Index (i) and (,) commands fully implemented. 689* "configure" script now shipped with Info. 690* New function "set-variable" allows users to set various variables. 691* User-settable behaviour on end or beginning of node scrolling. This 692 supercedes the SPC and DEL changes in 2.3 beta. 693 694________________________________________ 695This release of Info is version 2.4 beta. 696 697Changes since 2.3 beta: 698 699* info-last-node now means move to the last node of this info file. 700* info-history-node means move backwards through this window's node history. 701* info-first-node moves to the first node in the Info file. This node is 702 not necessarily "Top"! 703* SPC and DEL can select the Next or Prev node after printing an informative 704 message when pressed at the end/beg of a node. 705 706---------------------------------------- 707This release of Info is version 2.3 beta. 708 709Changes since 2.2 beta: 710 711* M-x command lines if NAMED_COMMANDS is #defined. Variable in Makefile. 712* Screen height changes made quite robust. 713* Interactive function "set-screen-height" implements user height changes. 714* Scrolling on some terminals is faster now. 715* C-l with numeric arguement is fixed. 716 717---------------------------------------- 718This release of Info is version 2.2 beta. 719 720Changes since 2.0: 721 722* C-g can now interrupt multi-file searches. 723* Incremental search is fully implemented. 724* Loading large tag tables is much faster now. 725* makedoc.c replaces shell script, speeding incremental builds. 726* Scrolling in redisplay is implemented. 727* Recursive uses of the echo area made more robust. 728* Garbage collection of unreferenced nodes. 729