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Comments on manual checking.
author Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
date Sat, 11 Jul 2009 03:06:44 +0000
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1 Tasks needed before the next release. 1 Tasks needed before the next release.
2 2
3 * TO BE DONE SHORTLY BEFORE RELEASE 3 * TO BE DONE SHORTLY BEFORE RELEASE
4 4
5 ** Check for widow and orphan lines in manuals; 5 ** Manuals
6 make sure all the pages really look ok in the manual as formatted. 6 Check cross-references between the manuals (eg from emacs to elisp)
7 are correct. (Is there an automated way to do this?)
8
9 make emacs.dvi, elisp.dvi, and deal with any errors (undefined
10 references etc) in the output. Break any overfull lines.
11 Underfull hboxes are not serious, but it can be nice to get rid of
12 them if a simple rephrasing or rearrangement will work.
13
14 Update the master menu and detailed menu (eg the antinews version).
15 The command texinfo-multiple-files-update can do this, but you
16 probably want to apply the results selectively (eg the current master
17 menu has better line-breaks than the automatic version). It includes
18 the menu-entry name (if there is one) as well as the node name - using
19 only the latter looks better. Also, it doesn't seem to handle nested
20 includes, so will miss edebug.texi etc.
21
22 Check for widow and orphan lines; make sure all the pages really look
23 ok in the manual as formatted. (AFAIK, there is no way to do this
24 except paging through the whole manual.)
7 25
8 ** Regenerate the pdf versions of the reference cards in etc/refcards/. 26 ** Regenerate the pdf versions of the reference cards in etc/refcards/.
9 27
10 ** Ask maintainers of refcard translations to update them. 28 ** Ask maintainers of refcard translations to update them.
11 29
21 sk Miroslav Vaško 39 sk Miroslav Vaško
22 40
23 ** Remove temporary +++/--- lines in NEWS. 41 ** Remove temporary +++/--- lines in NEWS.
24 42
25 ** Try to reorder NEWS: most important things first, related items together. 43 ** Try to reorder NEWS: most important things first, related items together.
44
45 ** Consider bumping customize-changed-options-previous-release.
26 46
27 * BUGS 47 * BUGS
28 48
29 ** Does deleting frames run Lisp code? If so, can we get rid of that? 49 ** Does deleting frames run Lisp code? If so, can we get rid of that?
30 It is a dangerous design. 50 It is a dangerous design.