<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-Mail-URLShareWrapperClass" contenteditable="false"><span class="Apple-Mail-URLShareUserContentTopClass" style="line-height: 14px !important; color: black !important; text-align: left !important; " applecontenteditable="true">More Perl in the news, this time from Slashdot:</span></span><div><span class="Apple-Mail-URLShareWrapperClass" contenteditable="false"><span class="Apple-Mail-URLShareUserContentTopClass" style="line-height: 14px !important; color: black !important; text-align: left !important; " applecontenteditable="true"><br></span></span></div><blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;"><div><span class="Apple-Mail-URLShareWrapperClass" contenteditable="false"><span class="Apple-Mail-URLShareUserContentTopClass" style="line-height: 14px !important; color: black !important; text-align: left !important; " applecontenteditable="true"><span style="color: rgb(54, 54, 54); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">[...] The primary </span></span></span><a href="http://savannah.gnu.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=7507" style="outline: none; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; color: rgb(0, 47, 47); cursor: pointer; line-height: 19px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">highlight</a><span style="color: rgb(54, 54, 54); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "> is a new implementation of </span><tt style="outline: none; vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; color: rgb(54, 54, 54); line-height: 19px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">makeinfo</tt><span style="color: rgb(54, 54, 54); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "> info in Perl rather than C. Although slower, the new version offers </span><a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/manual/texinfo/html_node/History.html#History" style="outline: none; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; color: rgb(0, 47, 47); cursor: pointer; line-height: 19px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">several advantages</a><span style="color: rgb(54, 54, 54); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">: cleaner code using a structured representation of the input document, Unicode support, and saner support for multiple output backends. [...]</span></div></blockquote><div><span class="Apple-Mail-URLShareWrapperClass" contenteditable="false"><span class="Apple-Mail-URLShareUserContentTopClass" style="line-height: 14px !important; color: black !important; text-align: left !important; " applecontenteditable="true"><br></span><span class="Apple-Mail-URLShareSharedContentClass" style="position: relative !important; " applecontenteditable="true"><a href="http://news.slashdot.org/story/13/02/17/2126208/gnu-texinfo-50-released">http://news.slashdot.org/story/13/02/17/2126208/gnu-texinfo-50-released</a>
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