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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 * BUGS
  48
  49 ** Milan Zamazal's Aug 23 bug report about crashes with certain fonts.
  50
  51 ** C-g fails to interrupt accept-process-output in Gnus.
  52
  53 ** Implement buffer-chars-modified-tick.
  54
  55 ** henman@it.to-be.co.jp 09 Aug 2006: ispell.el problem.
  56
  57 ** Make key-binding use the maps specified by positions given in the events.
  58
  59
  60 * DOCUMENTATION
  61
  62 ** Check the Emacs Tutorial.
  63
  64 The first line of every tutorial must begin with text ending in a period
  65 (".", ASCII 0x2E) saying "Emacs Tutorial" in the respective language.
  66 This should be followed by "See end for copying conditions", likewise
  67 in the respective language.
  68
  69 After each file name, on the same line or the following line, come the
  70 names of the people who have checked it.
  71
  72 SECTION                  READERS
  73 ----------------------------------
  74 etc/TUTORIAL             rms
  75 etc/TUTORIAL.bg          Ognyan Kulev <ogi@fmi.uni-sofia.bg>
  76 etc/TUTORIAL.cn
  77 etc/TUTORIAL.cs          Pavel Janík <Pavel@Janik.cz>
  78 etc/TUTORIAL.de          Werner LEMBERG <wl@gnu.org>
  79 etc/TUTORIAL.es          Marcelo Toledo
  80 etc/TUTORIAL.fr          ttn
  81 etc/TUTORIAL.it          ttn
  82 etc/TUTORIAL.ja          Kenichi Handa <handa@m17n.org>
  83 etc/TUTORIAL.ko
  84 etc/TUTORIAL.nl          Lute Kamstra
  85 etc/TUTORIAL.pl          Slawomir Nowaczyk <slawek@cs.lth.se>
  86 etc/TUTORIAL.pt_BR       Marcelo Toledo
  87 etc/TUTORIAL.ro
  88 etc/TUTORIAL.ru          Alex Ott <alexott@gmail.com>
  89 etc/TUTORIAL.sk          Pavel Janík <Pavel@Janik.cz>
  90 etc/TUTORIAL.sl          Primoz PETERLIN <primoz.peterlin@biofiz.mf.uni-lj.si>
  91 etc/TUTORIAL.sv          Mats Lidell <matsl@contactor.se>
  92 etc/TUTORIAL.th          Virach Sornlertlamvanich <virach@tcllab.org>
  93 etc/TUTORIAL.zh
  94
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  97 mode: outline
  98 coding: utf-8
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