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GNU Texinfo 5.0 Released

Posted by Unknown on from the aged-to-perfection dept.

Four years after the last release, version 5.0 of Texinfo, the GNU documentation language, has been released. The primary highlight is a new implementation of makeinfo info in Perl rather than C. Although slower, the new version offers several advantages: cleaner code using a structured representation of the input document, Unicode support, and saner support for multiple output backends. There are over a dozen other improvements including better formatting of URLs, improved cross-manual references, and a program to convert Perl POD documentation to Texinfo.

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  1. Things you don't hear every day by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Nobody could understand the source code anymore without massive doses of caffeine... ao we decided to rewrite the whole thing in Perl."

  2. Re:Do not want by swillden · · Score: 4, Funny

    I do not have the time, once again, to look up those obscure keyboard commands so that I may navigate laboriously through the documentation.

    What obscure keyboard commands? They're just the keybindings for the help system of the One True Editor. If you are using something inferior and have therefore memorized some truly obscure keyboard commands instead, how is that their fault?

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