Texinfo 7.0 released

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Nov 07, 2022,
updated Nov 08, 2022

We have released version 7.0 of Texinfo, the GNU documentation format.

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• Texinfo 7.0 released

  We have released version 7.0 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.
  
  
    http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/texinfo/texinfo-7.0.tar.xz
    http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/texinfo/texinfo-7.0.tar.gz
  
  
  If automatic redirection fails, the list of mirrors is at:
    https://www.gnu.org/prep/ftp.html
  
  
  Failing that, you can use the main server:
    https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/texinfo/texinfo-7.0.tar.xz
    https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/texinfo/texinfo-7.0.tar.gz
  
  
  In this release, texi2any now supports LaTeX and EPUB 3 as output
  formats. There are many other changes; see the list below.
  
  
  Special thanks to Patrice Dumas for the many improvements to the
  texi2any program. Thanks to all whose work is in this release: who
  contributed fixes, tested or reported problems, or contributed
  translations.
  
  
  Please email any comments to bug-texinfo@gnu.org.
  
  
  The Texinfo web page: https://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/
  
  
  Support free software ~ https://www.fsf.org/ ~ https://www.gnu.org/
  
  
  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  tag for the output of @t and @verb instead of 
       . use  for @acronym instead of 
       . 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