We have released version 6.0 of Texinfo, the GNU documentation format. It is available at
http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/texinfo/texinfo-6.0.tar.xz http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/texinfo/texinfo-6.0.tar.gz if automatic redirection fails, the list of mirrors is at: http://www.gnu.org/prep/ftp.html Failing that, you can use GNU's main FTP server: http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/texinfo/texinfo-6.0.tar.xz http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/texinfo/texinfo-6.0.tar.gz Or via rsync://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/texinfo/; some mirrors also support rsync. Please send any comments to bug-texi...@gnu.org. The Texinfo web page: http://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/ News below. 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. -- If you have a working or partly working program that you'd like to offer to the GNU project as a GNU package, see https://www.gnu.org/help/evaluation.html.
