texinfo 4.1 available

[Karl Berry]

I have released version 4.1 of Texinfo, the GNU documentation format
with supporting programs.  The news for this release is appended.

You can get it by anonymous ftp from
  ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/texinfo/texinfo-4.1.tar.gz
  and its mirrors worldwide (see http://www.gnu.org/order/ftp.html).

Texinfo also has small web pages at http://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo
and http://texinfo.org/.

I'd like to specially thank Eli Zaretskii for his large and sustained
contributions to Texinfo.  

Please email bugs or suggestions to address@hidden,
general discussion to address@hidden

Peace,
address@hidden

* Language:
  . new commands @verbatim and @verb for printing verbatim inserts.
  . new command @verbatiminclude for verbatim include of files.
  . new environment @documentdescription for defining the HTML description.
  . new command @afivepaper for the A5 paper size.
* makeinfo:
  . supports xml and docbook output.
  . supports HTML splitting by node, which is now the default.
  . new option --split-size to control maximum size of split info files.
* info:
  . user-specified key bindings supported.
  . ANSI escape sequences (as produced by groff) removed from man output
    by default; use --raw-escapes to let them through if your terminal
    supports them.
* texinfo.tex:
  . @math implies @tex, so all the usual plain TeX math is supported.
  . smaller fonts for @smallexample, in all page sizes.
  . improvements in the PDF support.
* texi2dvi:
  . new option -o to explicitly specify output filename.
* Distribution:
  . switch to GNU Free Documentation License (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/).
  . update to GNU gettext 0.11, autoconf 2.52, and automake 1.5.
  . Danish, Swedish, and Hebrew message translations.