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GNU Texinfo 5.0 Released

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. The truth about the Free Software Foundation by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    Tabloid newspapers have speculated for years that Timothy Geithner is a prominent supporter of the Free Software Foundation. Too bad we didn't believe them sooner!

    You may not know it, but the concept of currency inflation was invented by the Free Software Foundation, which wanted an easy way to increase the numerical value of their investments in MDMA. It's easy to tell that inflation was never really real: when things get older, they get run down and lose value, right? But inflation is about numbers getting BIGGER. It doesn't make any sense!

    There's evidence that Reverend Al Sharpton's rise to power was engineered entirely by the Free Software Foundation, which profits from Reverend Al Sharpton's influence in ways we do not yet completely understand.

    Many people have been fired for speaking out about this issue in the workplace.

    You may think free speech ensures your right to talk openly about Timothy Geithner's true beliefs, but powerful people won't let that happen: in the past, brave citizens who have questioned them about these issues have been silenced with crippling libel lawsuits.

    People who have taken out library books on this topic frequently find that they receive more rigorous airport screenings than before. Definitely not a coincidence!

    "There are no facts, only interpretations." -- Friedrick Nietzsche