[texinfo-pretest] texinfo 4.7.90 pretest available

[karl at gnu.org]

Hello Texinfo friends,

I've released texinfo 4.7.90, the first pretest for the next Texinfo
version to (gzip):
  ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/texinfo/texinfo-4.7.90.tar.gz
  http://texinfo.org/pretest/ftp/texinfo.tar.gz
and (bzip2):
  ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/texinfo/texinfo-4.7.90.tar.bz2
  http://texinfo.org/pretest/ftp/texinfo.tar.bz2

NEWS below.

Unfortunately, I am leaving an even larger backlog of bug reports and
feature requests than usual, but I wanted to make a release for the
upcoming teTeX 3.0.  If any of you need something strongly, please let
me know.

Please test if time and inclination, and report problems to
texinfo-pretest at texinfo.org.


Thanks,
karl at gnu.org

* Language:
  . new command @euro for the Euro currency symbol, and
    @documentencoding has some support for ISO-8859-15.
  . new command @abbr for general abbreviations.
  . new command @slanted to typeset text in a slanted font,
    and @sansserif to typeset in a sans serif font.
* makeinfo:
  . HTML output: <a name="..."> constructs are added for the old-style
    conversion of node names to HTML names, so that external references
    to them can continue to work.
* texi2dvi:
  . new option --recode, to call recode for input character translation.
* Distribution:
  . new convenience script texi2pdf, equivalent to texi2dvi --pdf (from tetex).
  . some cross-compiling support in configure && make.
  . new configure option --disable-install-warnings, for TeX
    distributions which do have the files installed.
  . automake 1.9.3.