Re: texinfo-6.4.92 pretest

2017-09-04 Thread Assaf Gordon
Hello, On 04/09/17 01:51 PM, Gavin Smith wrote: > https://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/texinfo/texinfo-6.4.92.tar.xz No test failures on the following: CentOS 6.5 (x86_64) CentOS 7.0.1406 (x86_64) Debian 8.1 (x86_64) Debian 8.9 (i686) Debian 8.9 (i686) Debian 9.1 (x86_64,CC=clang-3.8) Debian 9

Re: texinfo-6.4.91 pretest

2017-08-27 Thread Assaf Gordon
Hello Gavin, On Sun, Aug 27, 2017 at 11:58 AM, Gavin Smith wrote: > https://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/texinfo/texinfo-6.4.91.tar.xz The following 5 tests fail on several systems: FAIL: t/c-u-m-x-scroll-forward.sh FAIL: t/inc-sea-forward.sh FAIL: t/inc-sea-forward-nonregex.sh FAIL: t/inc-sea-insensitive

Re: [GSoC] Javascript for info-style navigation

2017-06-28 Thread Assaf Gordon
Hello, On Jun 28, 2017, at 09:30, Gavin Smith wrote: On Fri, Jun 16, 2017 at 08:22:25PM +0200, Mathieu Lirzin wrote: This summer I am doing a Google Summer of Code to implement a Javascript UI for manuals generated with GNU Texinfo [1]. Suggestions or comments are welcome. http://www.gnu.org

alternative for @U{} for older texinfo

2017-06-05 Thread Assaf Gordon
Hi, In gnu sed we recently expanded the manual with unicode content (e.g. '@U{FFFD}' commands in the texinfo file). A user alerted us that this fails with older texinfo (5.2): https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/sed-devel/2017-06/msg2.html Checking the logs I see that @U{} was added circa 20

Re: texinfo-6.3.91 pretest

2017-05-20 Thread Assaf Gordon
Hello, > On May 20, 2017, at 12:58, Gavin Smith wrote: > > http://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/texinfo/texinfo-6.3.91.tar.xz Known failures (previously reported for older versions): AIX and MINIX: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-texinfo/2016-02/msg2.html http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug

Re: [platform-testers] texinfo-6.3.90 pretest

2017-04-23 Thread Assaf Gordon
Hello, > On Apr 23, 2017, at 13:00, Gavin Smith wrote: > > http://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/texinfo/texinfo-6.3.90.tar.xz The test 'tests/texi2dvi_empty_text.sh' requires the 'tex' binary to be installed. This results in failures on many systems: FAIL: tests/texi2dvi_empty_text.sh

Re: Links in print and online

2016-11-26 Thread Assaf Gordon
> On Nov 26, 2016, at 12:45, Gavin Smith wrote: > [...] > I've got another idea: what about adding an option to miss out all the > page numbers in cross-references in the TeX output in case someone > wants to produce a PDF they only want to read online? That could allow > you to get a link in a P

Re: A Roadmap for TexInfo without Info

2016-11-25 Thread Assaf Gordon
Hello, > On Nov 25, 2016, at 04:00, Gavin Smith wrote: > > On 24 November 2016 at 19:55, Assaf Gordon wrote: >> one minor annoyance that stems from the "info" format: the references >> (@ref/@xref/@pxref). > > As Eli said, the main problem with the above

Re: A Roadmap for TexInfo without Info

2016-11-24 Thread Assaf Gordon
Hello, > On Nov 24, 2016, at 03:16, Gavin Smith wrote: > > On 23 November 2016 at 19:33, Per Bothner wrote: >> I've talked before about getting rid of the info format. >> >> Comments? > >> Its weakness is the “info” file format > > Why is that a weakness? Surely people can ignore the "info"

Re: texinfo-6.1.91 pretest

2016-09-05 Thread Assaf Gordon
Hello, > On Sep 5, 2016, at 17:35, Gavin Smith wrote: > > The next pretest for the next Texinfo release has been uploaded to > > http://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/texinfo/texinfo-6.1.91.tar.xz known failures (like previous pre-release): AIX and MINIX: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-texinfo/20

Re: texinfo-6.1.90 pretest

2016-08-14 Thread Assaf Gordon
Hello, > On Aug 13, 2016, at 07:28, Gavin Smith wrote: > > The first pretest for the next Texinfo release has been uploaded to > > http://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/texinfo/texinfo-6.1.90.tar.xz > ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/texinfo/texinfo-6.1.90.tar.xz > > Please send bug reports and general feedback to

Re: [platform-testers] texinfo-6.0.93 pretest

2016-02-01 Thread Assaf Gordon
Hello, On 01/31/2016 07:47 AM, Gavin Smith wrote: The next pretest for the upcoming Texinfo 6.1 release has been uploaded to http://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/texinfo/texinfo-6.0.93.tar.xz No test failures on these systems: Fedora-21, ppc64le Fedora-20, ppc64 Ubuntu-14, aarch64 OpenSolaris

Re: [bug #46481] install-info can "corrupt" dir file if interrupted.

2015-11-20 Thread Assaf Gordon
Hello, Regarding a 'safer' way to replace files during installation: On 11/20/2015 06:22 PM, Gavin Smith wrote: On 20 November 2015 at 22:53, Karl Berry wrote: 3) all that said, writing to a temp file and renaming is at least viable, although rather a pain and susceptible to many hard-to-pin-

Re: Bug#779885: info: Does not display a info-file from the start, if it contains (some) multibyte characters

2015-06-06 Thread Assaf Gordon
Hello, On 06/06/2015 06:13 AM, Gavin Smith wrote: Looking at the dir file you attached, there are the following entries: * Coreutils: (coreutils). Core GNU (file, text, shell) utilities. * coreutils: (coreutils)coreutils invocation. Multi-call program. The two labels are "Coreutils" an