From 10a99e0de5c2d746a97c59d84bb2f8abccc73689 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Glenn Morris Date: Sat, 11 Jul 2009 03:06:44 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Comments on manual checking. --- admin/FOR-RELEASE | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/admin/FOR-RELEASE b/admin/FOR-RELEASE index 28c21d88b0e..ee31f98f1c2 100644 --- a/admin/FOR-RELEASE +++ b/admin/FOR-RELEASE @@ -2,8 +2,26 @@ Tasks needed before the next release. * TO BE DONE SHORTLY BEFORE RELEASE -** Check for widow and orphan lines in manuals; -make sure all the pages really look ok in the manual as formatted. +** Manuals +Check cross-references between the manuals (eg from emacs to elisp) +are correct. (Is there an automated way to do this?) + +make emacs.dvi, elisp.dvi, and deal with any errors (undefined +references etc) in the output. Break any overfull lines. +Underfull hboxes are not serious, but it can be nice to get rid of +them if a simple rephrasing or rearrangement will work. + +Update the master menu and detailed menu (eg the antinews version). +The command texinfo-multiple-files-update can do this, but you +probably want to apply the results selectively (eg the current master +menu has better line-breaks than the automatic version). It includes +the menu-entry name (if there is one) as well as the node name - using +only the latter looks better. Also, it doesn't seem to handle nested +includes, so will miss edebug.texi etc. + +Check for widow and orphan lines; make sure all the pages really look +ok in the manual as formatted. (AFAIK, there is no way to do this +except paging through the whole manual.) ** Regenerate the pdf versions of the reference cards in etc/refcards/. @@ -24,6 +42,8 @@ sk Miroslav Vaško ** Try to reorder NEWS: most important things first, related items together. +** Consider bumping customize-changed-options-previous-release. + * BUGS ** Does deleting frames run Lisp code? If so, can we get rid of that? -- 2.39.2