We have released version 6.2 of Texinfo, the GNU documentation system. This package contains tools to produce documentation in various formats, including HTML and PDF, from source files in the Texinfo format. Texinfo is a text-based format with commands for marking text, document structuring and indexing. This package also includes programs for reading and installing files in the Info format, which is another format into which Texinfo files can be converted.
The release is available at the following locations: http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/texinfo/texinfo-6.2.tar.xz http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/texinfo/texinfo-6.2.tar.gz If automatic redirection fails, the list of mirrors is at: http://www.gnu.org/prep/ftp.html Failing that, you can use the main FTP server: http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/texinfo/texinfo-6.2.tar.xz http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/texinfo/texinfo-6.2.tar.gz Or via rsync://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/texinfo/; some mirrors also support rsync. The .xz file is smaller, but .gz is provided as well. Please email any comments to bug-texi...@gnu.org. The Texinfo web page: https://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/ Here is a list of some of the changes since the last release: * Language: . The commands `@setcontentsaftertitlepage' and `@setshortcontentsaftertitlepage' have been removed. . @-commands are no longer supported within `@errormsg'. * texinfo.tex: . For a couple of characters (opening and closing braces), use glyphs from the standard TeX math fonts instead of using EC fonts which are less likely to be installed. . Use of user-defined macros in the text of an index entry is more reliable when the text contains Texinfo @-commands. . @synindex and @syncodeindex have been fixed (broken in the last release). . Support added for native UTF-8 support with XeTeX and LuaTeX. . Support of PDF output with XeTeX improved. . You can use a new file doc/texinfo-ja.tex for Texinfo documents in Japanese. doc/short-sample-ja.tex is a sample document. New support file doc/txi-ja.tex for Japanese. * texi2any: . Fix handling of compiler options when building Perl extension modules. * texi2dvi: . Can now process files whose absolute paths contain space characters, as long a relative path to the file is given. Better support of files with unusual characters in their names. . No longer exits prematurely in some circumstances (due to the script running under "set -e"). . Bug fixed which made the `--command' and `--tidy' options incompatible. * info: . Handling of "invalid" value in infokey file fixed. -- 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.
