We have released version 6.4 of Texinfo, the GNU documentation format. 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.
The release is available at the following locations: http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/texinfo/texinfo-6.4.tar.xz http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/texinfo/texinfo-6.4.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-6.4.tar.xz http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/texinfo/texinfo-6.4.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: * texi2any: . for HTML output, place section names before the manual in page titles, instead of after them, so it is easier to distinguish pages if titles are truncated . starting points for ordered lists beginning with 0 or a letter of the alphabet are output as attributes on the <ol> tag, as was case for Texinfo 4.13 and earlier . a bit faster . some discrepancies in paragraph formatting between Perl extension modules and interpreted Perl modules have been fixed . `MACRO_BODY_IGNORES_LEADING_SPACE' customization variable removed, and `indent_menu_descriptions' is no longer a possible value for `TREE_TRANSFORMATIONS' (as these features did not work as documented) * info: . the `up-line' and `down-line' commands now are like the other scrolling commands and are no longer confined to a single node (depending on the value of `scroll-behaviour') . supplying the --all option with --index-search displays a list of matching index entries . the style variables like `link-style' can now be set while info is running . display bug fixed where color could be turned off prematurely . several other bugs fixed . better portability in test suite . do not fall back to showing the dir node if a manual isn't found . Do not attempt any kind of conversion of CR LF line endings, except on MS-DOS/Windows, when it is done unconditionally. (This replaces a more complicated approach, where this conversion would take place if there was a problem finding a node in a file.) The main effect of this change is that Info files with CR LF line endings, which would have been produced on MS-DOS/Windows with old versions of makeinfo, are only supported on such operating systems. . a few of the key bindings under --vi-keys have been changed for consistency or to match the documentation * texinfo.tex . a DVI file with a single empty page can be output again, which restores the behavior from Texinfo 6.0 and earlier -- 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.
