texinfo 4.2e pretest available

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Hello Texinfo friends,

I've released texinfo pretest 4.2e to (gzip):
  ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/texinfo/texinfo.tar.gz
  http://texinfo.org/pretest/ftp/texinfo.tar.gz
and (bzip2):
  ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/texinfo/texinfo.tar.bz2
  http://texinfo.org/pretest/ftp/texinfo.tar.bz2

NEWS is below, such as it is.  This release is intended to be for bug
fixes, although a few new features crept in.  Please check the makeinfo
--html output in particular, this is where the majority of the changes
have taken place.

If nothing else comes up, I hope to make the release next week.

Please email me or the list ([email protected]) with questions
or problems.  Do not email the regular texinfo lists, they should remain
for official releases.

Thanks,
[email protected]


* Language:
  . new command @tie{} to do a real tie (unbreakable interword space).
* makeinfo:
  . html output for @defun and friends now has font changes.
  . html output has some class attributes.
* texinfo.tex:
  . new Italian translations, txi-it.tex.
  . pdf bookmarks for unnumbered sections work.
  . type name for @defun and friends no longer extends into margin.
* info:
  . automatic-footnotes now off by default, for emacs compatibility.
  . crash when MALLOC_CHECK_=2 fixed.
* install-info:
  . new option --infodir synonym for --info-dir, for compatibility with
    the Debian install-info.
  . support for bzip2-compressed files.
* texindex:
  . omit initial if the entire index is under one characters.
* Distribution:
 . development sources now available under CVS, see
   http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/texinfo/
 . Turkish message translation.
 . gettext 0.11.5, autoconf 2.54, automake 1.7.1.