texinfo-7.3

[Bruce Dubbs]

New minor version.

[Xi Ruoyao]

The sed should be removed now.

[Bruce Dubbs]

7.3 (02 March 2026)

• Language
  • new commands for title page creation: @documentinfo, @publication, and @maketitle- you can use these instead of explicit formatting inside @titlepage-
  • you can use heading commands such as @heading after @node. nodes defined this way are not part of the chapter structure of the document (unlike if @section etc- were used).
  • new command @xrefname can follow @node in place of a heading command. this is for when you do not want any heading at all to be displayed-
  • new command @namedanchor for defining text to be used for a cross- reference to an anchor (with @xrefautomaticsectiontitle on)
  • new command @thispart to print part name in headings or footings
  • deprecate @clickstyle
  • if there is no @documentlanguage, the language is unspecified, rather than en_US- (texi2any will still use English strings by default, but will not put en_US in the output, depending on output format-)

• texi2any
  • texi2any uses the Perl extensions in C for converters when possible, which results in a large speed-up for HTML output- set the `TEXINFO_XS_CONVERT' environment variable to 0 for pure Perl-
  • optional experimental texi2any program implementation in C embedding Perl. use --enable-using-c-texi2any to prefer the C implementation-
  • report leading directory components of input file names in messages (this reverses 6-8 release change, 2021).
  • when CHECK_NORMAL_MENU_STRUCTURE is on, give the line number of the problem menu entry
  • DUMP_TREE should now be a file name, or - to output to standard error
  • remove USE_REL_REV variable; former effect is now always on
  • (API only) rename LINKS_BUTTONS customization variable to LINKS_DIRECTIONS
  • (API only) rename space direction ' ' to 'Space'
  • HTML output:
    • the HIGHLIGHT_SYNTAX variable can be used for syntax highlighting of code samples- this feature was present in earlier releases but is no longer marked as experimental-
    • do not wrap the contents of <style> elements in an HTML comment, as this is no longer needed for browser compatibility
    • the --transliterate-file-names option (which sets the TRANSLITERATE_FILE_NAMES variable) is now off by default-
    • when creating redirection files with --node-files (the default), ignore the settings of TRANSLITERATE_FILE_NAMES, BASEFILENAME_LENGTH, and EXTENSION-
    • likewise, ignore these variables for links to external manuals (they are still used for the file names generated for the converted manual content)-
    • the default setting of WORDS_IN_PAGE has changed from 300 to 200. this means that a navigation panel is more likely to be output at the bottom of fairly short nodes-
    • use the last @printindex in the input file for the Index direction
    • only output 'accesskey' attributes when splitting by node
    • for locations of external manuals, use files ending with the -cnf extension in the htmlxref.d directories (in addition to files called htmlxref-cnf). this should make it easier to combine information on HTML cross-references from different sources-
    • in an htmlxref file, you can explicity trigger a link to a local manual by using an empty URL
    • you can set FORMAT_MENU to 'menu_no_detailmenu' to omit an automatically generated @detailmenu from the Top node
    • info.js (with INFO_JS_DIR) fixes and improvements:
      • avoid pop-up over Top node and display the correct title
    • --internal-links outputs more types of internal link, including anchors, sections and floats- the possible type names reported in the second column have changed-
    • USE_NEXT_HEADING_FOR_LONE_NODE removed. former effect is now always on-
    • (API only) remove the buttons specifications with scalar references, direction text or functions references should be used instead
    • (API only) remove the Texinfo::TeX4HT customization package
  • Info output:
    • new experimental variable INFO_MATH_IMAGES allows outputting images for mathematics notation
  • LaTeX output:
    • use UTF-8 encoding for output by default, regardless of input encoding- override with OUTPUT_ENCODING_NAME.
  • XML output:
    • use HTML entities names for @H and @dotaccent accents types

• texinfo-tex
  • add entries in PDF outline for index initials
  • use Unicode in PDF outline for input documents encoded in UTF-8
  • '@set xrefautomaticsectiontitle on' does not affect cross-references

to anchors, matching the HTML output

• separate adjacent footnote markers with commas, e.g. '1, 2' not '1 2'

• info
  • you can use hook scripts to handle an info manual not being found. these hooks can provide a message to the user with information on how to install the manual-
  • when run as 'info TOPIC INDEX-ENTRY', prefer index entries that refer to the node that would be loaded by 'info TOPIC'- this aids in retrieving documentation of command-line options when multiple programs are documented in the same manual- for example, 'info cp -- -s' goes to the documentation of the -s option for the cp program in the coreutils manual, rather than the -s option of any other program-
  • list all customizable variables in help buffer including how they got their values
  • reuse introductory text in dir file rather than supplying our own text, as was the case in older version of info and is the case in Emacs
  • removed fallback if a node is not found in a cross-reference to searching for a file of the same name- e.g. "* Foo::" in a menu would go to a file called "Foo", if no node called "Foo" was found- now only the node is looked for-
  • new variable 'raw-utf8-output' supports viewing UTF-8 Info files on MS-Windows

[Bruce Dubbs]

Fixed at commit 0be125fdfc.