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   1 Tasks needed before the next release.
   2
   3 * TO BE DONE SHORTLY BEFORE RELEASE
   4
   5 ** Check for widow and orphan lines in manuals;
   6 make sure all the pages really look ok in the manual as formatted.
   7
   8 ** Cleanup temporary +++/--- lines in etc/NEWS.
   9
  10 ** Regenerate the postscript files of the reference cards in etc.
  11
  12 ** Ask maintainers of refcard translations to update them.
  13
  14 Requests to have been sent out on 2006-05-23 (Reiner Steib).
  15
  16 LANG    Translator            Status
  17 cs      Pavel Janík           Can't work on it now.
  18 de      Sven Joachim          Done
  19 fr      Eric Jacoboni         Done
  20 pl      Włodek Bzyl           Done
  21 pt-br   Rodrigo Real          Done
  22 ru      Alex Ott              Done
  23 sk      Miroslav Vaško        No response
  24
  25 Reminders sent out on 2006-06-08.
  26
  27 ** Send an email to the various distributions, including the GNOME
  28 and KDE projects, to use the new Emacs icons in etc/images/icons.
  29
  30 * WINDOWS SUPPORT BUGS.
  31
  32 These don't need to be fixed before a release, but we call the
  33 attention of Windows users to fixing them.
  34
  35 ** Drew Adams 12 Aug bug rpt: overlay  display artifact: trace left behind
  36 Windows only bug. Bug appears only when Cleartype enabled, probably related
  37 to the hack introduced on 2005-07-01 to fix some other Cleartype problem.
  38
  39 ** henman@it.to-be.co.jp 09 Aug 2006: ispell.el problem on Cygwin.
  40   (Did we decide that is unreproducible?)
  41
  42 * BUGS
  43
  44 ** spurious scrolling bug
  45 RMS has seen this too, happening during idle time, but cannot reproduce it.
  46
  47 ** lennart.borgman@gmail.com, Apr 11: before-string in overlay
  48 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-pretest-bug/2007-04/msg00153.html
  49
  50 ** cyd@stupidchicken.com, Apr 12: display margin errors on a tty
  51 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-pretest-bug/2007-04/msg00272.html
  52
  53 * DOCUMENTATION
  54
  55 ** Check the Emacs Tutorial.
  56
  57 The first line of every tutorial must begin with text ending in a
  58 period (".", ASCII 0x2E) saying "Emacs Tutorial" in the respective
  59 language.  This should be followed by "See end for copying
  60 conditions", likewise in the respective language.
  61
  62 After each file name, on the same line or the following line, come the
  63 names of the people who have checked it.
  64
  65 SECTION                  READERS
  66 ----------------------------------
  67 etc/TUTORIAL             rms
  68 etc/TUTORIAL.bg          Ognyan Kulev <ogi@fmi.uni-sofia.bg>
  69 etc/TUTORIAL.cn
  70 etc/TUTORIAL.cs          Pavel Janík <Pavel@Janik.cz>
  71 etc/TUTORIAL.de          Werner LEMBERG <wl@gnu.org>
  72 etc/TUTORIAL.eo
  73 etc/TUTORIAL.es          Marcelo Toledo
  74 etc/TUTORIAL.fr          ttn
  75 etc/TUTORIAL.it          ttn
  76 etc/TUTORIAL.ja          Kenichi Handa <handa@m17n.org>
  77 etc/TUTORIAL.ko
  78 etc/TUTORIAL.nl          Lute Kamstra
  79 etc/TUTORIAL.pl          Slawomir Nowaczyk <slawek@cs.lth.se>
  80 etc/TUTORIAL.pt_BR       Marcelo Toledo
  81 etc/TUTORIAL.ro
  82 etc/TUTORIAL.ru          Alex Ott <alexott@gmail.com>
  83 etc/TUTORIAL.sk          Pavel Janík <Pavel@Janik.cz>
  84 etc/TUTORIAL.sl          Primoz PETERLIN <primoz.peterlin@biofiz.mf.uni-lj.si>
  85 etc/TUTORIAL.sv          Mats Lidell <matsl@contactor.se>
  86 etc/TUTORIAL.th          Virach Sornlertlamvanich <virach@tcllab.org>
  87 etc/TUTORIAL.zh
  88
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  91 mode: outline
  92 coding: utf-8
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