texinfo NEWS,1.16,1.17

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*** NEWS        6 Feb 2004 01:29:19 -0000       1.16
--- NEWS        20 Feb 2004 13:34:13 -0000      1.17
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*** 40,50 ****
  * makeinfo:
    . New environment variable TEXINFO_OUTPUT determines default output format.
    . All outputs:
      - sections are numbered by default.
-     - @ref warns if character after is not . or , or ), since the Info
-       readers don't support anything else there.
    . Info output:
      - punctuation is inserted after @pxref and @ref, if needed to make
        cross-references valid.
    . HTML output:
      - include node name in <title> with split output.
--- 40,51 ----
  * makeinfo:
    . New environment variable TEXINFO_OUTPUT determines default output format.
+   . New option --plaintext, equivalent to --no-headers with Info output.
    . All outputs:
      - sections are numbered by default.
    . Info output:
      - punctuation is inserted after @pxref and @ref, if needed to make
        cross-references valid.
+     - line numbers included in index menus, so Info readers can go to
+       the exact line of an entry, not just a node.  Also in plaintext output.
    . HTML output:
      - include node name in <title> with split output.
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--- 70,78 ----
      change was actually made years ago, but never made it into the NEWS.)
  * info:
+   . new option --where (aka --location, -w) to report where an Info file
+     would be found, instead of reading it.
    . by default, output ANSI terminal escape sequences as-is; new option
      --no-raw-escapes overrides this.
+   . use the newly-generated index line numbers.
  * Distribution:
    . new script gendocs.sh (not installed), for use by GNU maintainers in