texinfo-7.0

[Bruce Dubbs]

New major version.

[Bruce Dubbs]

7.0 (7 November 2022)

• texi2any
  • LaTeX added as an output format, selected with --latex
  • EPUB 3 added as an output format, selected with --epub3
  • reform throughout the code in general
  • thorough review of character encoding issues
  • new customization variables involved with character encoding:

INPUT_FILE_NAME_ENCODING, OUTPUT_FILE_NAME_ENCODING, DOC_ENCODING_FOR_INPUT_FILE_NAME, DOC_ENCODING_FOR_OUTPUT_FILE_NAME, MESSAGE_ENCODING and COMMAND_LINE_ENCODING

• warn if full-text commands (@ref, @footnote, @anchor) appear in @w
• new variable NO_TOP_NODE_OUTPUT
• IGNORE_BEFORE_SETFILENAME variable removed. former effect is now always on-
• HTML output:
  • use manual_name_html as output directory for split HTML instead of manual_name or manual_name-html
  • default DOCTYPE declaration changed to plain HTML5 style rather than HTML4 DTD reference
  • output only the CSS rules that are needed in an output file
  • remove CSS_LINES variable and add SHOW_BUILTIN_CSS_RULES (custom CSS can still be output using EXTRA_HEAD)
  • use <code> tag for the output of @t and @verb instead of <tt>
  • use <abbr> for @acronym instead of <acronym>
  • link to table of contents from short table of contents only if a table of contents is actually output
  • prefix classes from @example arguments with `user-'
  • percent encode URL in @url/@uref, @email, @image and external manual file
  • new USE_XML_SYNTAX, HTML_ROOT_ELEMENT_ATTRIBUTES and NO_CUSTOM_HTML_ATTRIBUTE variables can be used to output valid XHTML
  • systematic addition of classes attribute in HTML elements based on the Texinfo @-command names- renaming of class attributes to avoid confusion with @-commands formatting and describe the role in the document rather than the formatting style-
  • COPIABLE_ANCHORS renamed to COPIABLE_LINKS
  • do not add a title by default; SHOW_TITLE or NO_TOP_NODE_OUTPUT has to be set
  • USE_TITLEPAGE_FOR_TITLE is now true by default
  • L2H variable removed, replaced by HTML_MATH set to `l2h'
  • rename OVERVIEW_LINK_TO_TOC to SHORT_TOC_LINK_TO_TOC
  • rename BEFORE_OVERVIEW to BEFORE_SHORT_TOC_LINE
  • rename AFTER_OVERVIEW to AFTER_SHORT_TOC_LINES
  • remove PRE_ABOUT, AFTER_ABOUT, and add PROGRAM_NAME_IN_ABOUT
  • remove KEEP_TOP_EXTERNAL_REF
  • new variables IGNORE_REF_TO_TOP_NODE_UP, CONVERT_TO_LATEX_IN_MATH, HTMLXREF_MODE and HTMLXREF_FILE
• DocBook output:
  • do not output Top node or text before the first @node or sectioning @-command- NO_TOP_NODE_OUTPUT can be set to false to output Top node for now-
  • replace @definfocenlose defined @-commands by the argument as-is to be more consistent with printed output
• HTML/DocBook output:
  • USE_NUMERIC_ENTITY changed to mean to use numeric entities instead of named entities- former effect is now always on.
  • ENABLE_ENCODING_USE_ENTITY variable removed. former effect is now always off-
• Info output
  • quote problematic node names (with :, comma...) by default
  • new customization variable ASCII_PUNCTUATION to use plain ASCII characters for quotation marks and a few other symbols

• texinfo-tex
  • `@microtype on' uses microtypography in formatting for pdfTeX and LuaTeX
  • do not ignore @part page immediately following Top node
  • do `@set txicodevaristt' to get slanted typewriter for @var in code, `@clear txicodevaristt' to use slanted, variable-width roman font for @var everywhere- flag is @set by default, but we may turn this off in the future-
  • new file doc/texinfo-zh.tex for Texinfo documents in Chinese. new support file doc/txi-zh-tex for Chinese. doc/short-sample-zh.texi is a sample document-

• info
  • better support for index entries containing parentheses
  • better support for getting bold text etc. when displaying manpages
  • bug fixed where the first index entry in a file could be ignored
  • M-C-f closes as well as opens footnotes window
  • do not crash if run in Brazilian Portuguese locale

• Language
  • @deftype* commands use typewriter font in argument list
  • new commands @latex, @iflatex, @ifnotlatex for new LaTeX output format
  • do `@set txidefnamenospace' to omit space after a definition name

• Other
  • build fixed for glibc 2.34

[Xi Ruoyao]

Fixed at r11.2-173-g9292384ba.