[5182] mention incompatibilities of text outside @ item and irregular sectioning

[karl]

Revision: 5182
          http://svn.sv.gnu.org/viewvc/?view=rev&root=texinfo&revision=5182
Author:   karl
Date:     2013-02-21 17:16:26 +0000 (Thu, 21 Feb 2013)
Log Message:
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mention incompatibilities of text outside @item and irregular sectioning

Modified Paths:
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    trunk/ChangeLog
    trunk/NEWS

Modified: trunk/ChangeLog
===================================================================
--- trunk/ChangeLog     2013-02-21 00:03:52 UTC (rev 5181)
+++ trunk/ChangeLog     2013-02-21 17:16:26 UTC (rev 5182)
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2013-02-21  Karl Berry  <address@hidden>
+
+       * NEWS: mention incompatibilities of text outside @item
+       and irregular sectioning trees.
+
 2013-02-20  Patrice Dumas  <address@hidden>
 
        * Makeinfo.am, texi2html/test/*/Makefile.am, tp/tests/*/Makefile.am,

Modified: trunk/NEWS
===================================================================
--- trunk/NEWS  2013-02-21 00:03:52 UTC (rev 5181)
+++ trunk/NEWS  2013-02-21 17:16:26 UTC (rev 5182)
@@ -73,6 +73,18 @@
   the C program was.  We hope all the many improvements make the new
   version worthwhile for users nevertheless.
 
+* Intentional incompatibilities:
+  . The previous makeinfo implementation accepted text inside @itemize,
+    @enumerate, etc., not within the scope of an @item.  This is
+    semantically inconsistent, leading to problems with some backends,
+    and thusnow produces a warning.
+    
+  . The previous makeinfo accepted ``irregular'' sectioning trees, for
+    example, when @top is not associated with the first node,
+    subsections are written directly under chapters (skipping levels),
+    and so on.  This produces an error in 5.0 and will be a warning in
+    the next release.
+  
 * pod2texi is a new (Perl) program that uses the capabilities of
   texi2any to translate Perl pod documentation to Texinfo.