* TO BE DONE SHORTLY BEFORE RELEASE
-** Check for widow and orphan lines in manuals;
-make sure all the pages really look ok in the manual as formatted.
-
-** Regenerate the pdf versions of the reference cards in etc/refcards/.
+** Manuals
+Check cross-references between the manuals (eg from emacs to elisp)
+are correct. You can use something like the following in the info
+directory in the Emacs build tree:
+
+emacs -Q --eval "(setq Info-default-directory-list '(\".\"))" \
+ -f info-xref-check-all
+
+make emacs.dvi, elisp.dvi, and deal with any errors (undefined
+references etc) in the output. Break any overfull lines.
+Underfull hboxes are not serious, but it can be nice to get rid of
+them if a simple rephrasing or rearrangement will work.
+
+Update the master menu and detailed menu (eg the antinews version).
+The command texinfo-multiple-files-update can do this, but you
+probably want to apply the results selectively (eg the current master
+menu has better line-breaks than the automatic version). It includes
+the menu-entry name (if there is one) as well as the node name - using
+only the latter looks better. Also, it doesn't seem to handle nested
+includes, so will miss edebug.texi etc.
+
+Check for widow and orphan lines in the printed manual; make sure all
+the pages really look ok in the manual as formatted. Orphans/widows
+are cases where the first/last line of a paragraph is on its own at
+the end/start of a page, or where the last word in a paragraph is on
+its own at the start of a line. It looks better if you reword/respace
+things to avoid these. (AFAIK, there is no way to find these except
+paging through the whole manual.) This should be the very last thing
+you do, since any change can alter the layout.
+
+** Check the keybindings in the refcards are correct, and add any new ones.
+Regenerate the pdf versions in etc/refcards/.
+What paper size are the English versions supposed to be on?
+On Debian testing, the packages texlive-lang-czechslovak and
+texlive-lang-polish will let you generate the cs-* and sk-* pdfs.
+The Makefile rules did not work for me, I had to use something like:
+csplain -output-format=pdf cs-refcard
** Ask maintainers of refcard translations to update them.
** Try to reorder NEWS: most important things first, related items together.
+** Consider bumping customize-changed-options-previous-release.
+
* BUGS
** Does deleting frames run Lisp code? If so, can we get rid of that?
SECTION READERS
----------------------------------
-etc/TUTORIAL
+etc/TUTORIAL rgm (but see Bug#3783)
etc/TUTORIAL.bg
etc/TUTORIAL.cn
etc/TUTORIAL.cs
-etc/TUTORIAL.de
+etc/TUTORIAL.de Werner Lemberg
etc/TUTORIAL.eo
etc/TUTORIAL.es
etc/TUTORIAL.fr
indent.texi -- cyd
killing.texi -- cyd
kmacro.texi -- cyd
-macos.texi -- contents need to be evaluated and see what is still
- relevant after the NS merge.
+macos.texi -- davidswelt
maintaining.texi -- cyd
major.texi -- cyd
mark.texi -- cyd
mini.texi -- cyd
misc.texi -- cyd
-msdog.texi
-msdog-xtra.texi
+msdog.texi -- eliz
+msdog-xtra.texi -- eliz
mule.texi -- cyd
m-x.texi -- cyd
programs.texi -- cyd
** Check the Lisp manual.
-abbrevs.texi
+abbrevs.texi -- cyd
advice.texi -- cyd
-anti.texi
+anti.texi -- cyd
back.texi
backups.texi -- cyd
buffers.texi -- cyd
display.texi -- cyd
edebug.texi
elisp.texi
-errors.texi
+errors.texi -- cyd
eval.texi -- cyd
files.texi -- cyd
frames.texi -- cyd
loading.texi -- cyd
locals.texi -- cyd
macros.texi -- cyd
-maps.texi
+maps.texi -- cyd
markers.texi -- cyd
minibuf.texi -- cyd
modes.texi -- cyd
text.texi -- cyd
tips.texi -- cyd
variables.texi -- cyd
-windows.texi
+windows.texi -- rudalics
* PLANNED ADDITIONS