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   1 Tasks needed before the next release.
   2
   3 * TO BE DONE SHORTLY BEFORE RELEASE
   4
   5 ** Update release dates of manuals.
   6
   7 ** Check for widow and orphan lines in manuals;
   8 make sure all the pages really look ok in the manual as formatted.
   9
  10 ** Update AUTHORS.
  11
  12 ** Regenerate the postscript files of the reference cards in etc.
  13
  14 ** Ask maintainers of refcard translations to update them.
  15
  16 Requests to have been sent out on 2006-05-23 (Reiner Steib).
  17
  18 LANG    Translator            Status
  19 cs      Pavel Janík           Can't work on it now.
  20 de      Sven Joachim          Done
  21 fr      Eric Jacoboni         Done        (layout might be improved)
  22 pl      Włodek Bzyl           Done
  23 pt-br   Rodrigo Real          Done
  24 ru      Alex Ott              Done
  25 sk      Miroslav Vaško        No response
  26
  27 Reminders sent out on 2006-06-08.
  28
  29 ** Send an email to the various distributions, including the GNOME
  30 and KDE projects, to use the new Emacs icons in etc/images/icons.
  31
  32 * WINDOWS SUPPORT BUGS.
  33 These don't need to be fixed to start pretest, but we call the
  34 attention of Windows users to fixing them.
  35
  36 ** Markus Gritsch's report about Emacs looping on Windoze with the following
  37 .emacs file, and then reduce Emacs frame width to "something quite narrow":
  38         (setq-default truncate-lines t)
  39         (custom-set-variables
  40          '(hscroll-margin 20)
  41          '(hscroll-step 1)
  42         )
  43
  44 ** Drew Adams 12 Aug bug rpt: overlay  display artifact: trace left behind
  45 Windows only bug.
  46
  47 ** henman@it.to-be.co.jp 09 Aug 2006: ispell.el problem on Cygwin.
  48   (Did we decide that is unreproducible?)
  49
  50 * BUGS
  51
  52 ** Field handling in C-n.
  53
  54 ** C-g fails to interrupt accept-process-output in Gnus.
  55   (Is that fixed?)
  56
  57 ** ispell.el: no option for no flyspell on non-ASCII
  58
  59 ** allout.el patch from Manheimer to be installed.
  60
  61 ** regex char class matching needs a call to char-syntax.
  62
  63 ** regex char class matching breaks if you change entries
  64 in the syntax table.
  65
  66 ** Handa's Sep 6 compilation font lock bug report.
  67
  68 ** Michael Cadilhac's Sep 7 bug report about set-input-method.
  69
  70 ** Xt timer runs very often, all the time.
  71
  72
  73 * DOCUMENTATION
  74
  75 ** Check the Emacs Tutorial.
  76
  77 The first line of every tutorial must begin with text ending in a period
  78 (".", ASCII 0x2E) saying "Emacs Tutorial" in the respective language.
  79 This should be followed by "See end for copying conditions", likewise
  80 in the respective language.
  81
  82 After each file name, on the same line or the following line, come the
  83 names of the people who have checked it.
  84
  85 SECTION                  READERS
  86 ----------------------------------
  87 etc/TUTORIAL             rms
  88 etc/TUTORIAL.bg          Ognyan Kulev <ogi@fmi.uni-sofia.bg>
  89 etc/TUTORIAL.cn
  90 etc/TUTORIAL.cs          Pavel Janík <Pavel@Janik.cz>
  91 etc/TUTORIAL.de          Werner LEMBERG <wl@gnu.org>
  92 etc/TUTORIAL.es          Marcelo Toledo
  93 etc/TUTORIAL.fr          ttn
  94 etc/TUTORIAL.it          ttn
  95 etc/TUTORIAL.ja          Kenichi Handa <handa@m17n.org>
  96 etc/TUTORIAL.ko
  97 etc/TUTORIAL.nl          Lute Kamstra
  98 etc/TUTORIAL.pl          Slawomir Nowaczyk <slawek@cs.lth.se>
  99 etc/TUTORIAL.pt_BR       Marcelo Toledo
 100 etc/TUTORIAL.ro
 101 etc/TUTORIAL.ru          Alex Ott <alexott@gmail.com>
 102 etc/TUTORIAL.sk          Pavel Janík <Pavel@Janik.cz>
 103 etc/TUTORIAL.sl          Primoz PETERLIN <primoz.peterlin@biofiz.mf.uni-lj.si>
 104 etc/TUTORIAL.sv          Mats Lidell <matsl@contactor.se>
 105 etc/TUTORIAL.th          Virach Sornlertlamvanich <virach@tcllab.org>
 106 etc/TUTORIAL.zh
 107
 108 \f
 109 Local variables:
 110 mode: outline
 111 coding: utf-8
 112 end: