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Using Texinfo 4.2 @copying
- From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28 at cam dot ac dot uk>
- To: <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Tue, 24 Dec 2002 18:47:02 +0000 (GMT)
- Subject: Using Texinfo 4.2 @copying
I'll shortly be sending to gcc-patches a series of four patches to
increase the minimum Texinfo version requirement to 4.2 and use the
Texinfo 4.2 @copying feature. (The current requirement is 4.1; the
current GNU release is 4.3.) Patches 1 and 2 will just be applied to
mainline, patch 3 with the actual configure change needs review and
patch 4 will be applied once patch 3 is. If Mark approves they will
also be applied to the 3.3 branch. To quote the Texinfo NEWS file,
*** IMPORTANT NEWS FOR ALL AUTHORS OF TEXINFO MANUALS ***
As of version 4.2, Texinfo has a new command @copying to define the
copyright and copying permissions for a manual. It's important to
switch to using it as soon as possible (as in your next release),
because the historical method of doing copyright permissions using
@ifinfo failed to output copyright information in the HTML (or XML)
formats. The manual has detailed explanations and examples. For
convenience, here's a url to one of the relevant sections:
http://texinfo.org/manual/Document-Permissions.html
--
Joseph S. Myers
jsm28@cam.ac.uk