Spelling fixes.

[bpt/emacs.git] / admin / FOR-RELEASE

diff --git a/admin/FOR-RELEASE b/admin/FOR-RELEASE
index 0821593..8b6bddb 100644 (file)
--- a/admin/FOR-RELEASE
+++ b/admin/FOR-RELEASE
@@ -2,7 +2,13 @@ Tasks needed before the next release.
 
 * TO BE DONE SHORTLY BEFORE RELEASE
 
+** Either update, test, and support the old w32 build method, or remove it.
+
 ** Manuals
+Check for node names using problematic characters:
+  find doc -name '*.texi' -exec grep '^@node[^,]*[:.()]' {} +
+Sadly makeinfo does not warn about such characters.
+
 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:
@@ -18,6 +24,20 @@ in the web pages repository.  E.g.:
 Redirect /software/emacs/manual/html_mono/automake.html /software/automake/manual/automake.html
 Redirect /software/emacs/manual/html_node/automake/ /software/automake/manual/html_node/
 
+Another tool you can use to check links is gnu.org's linc.py:
+http://www.gnu.org/server/source/
+
+You run this something like:
+
+cd /path/to/cvs/emacs-www
+linc.py -o /path/to/output-dir --url http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/ .
+
+Be warned that it is really, really slow (as in, can take ~ a full day
+to check the manual/ directory).  It is probably best to run it on a
+single directory at a time from eg manual/html_node.  It is very
+inefficient, but may reveal a few things that info-xref does not.
+
+
 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
@@ -50,7 +70,6 @@ I think this is different to what you get if you just use eg `make
 emacs.pdf' (e.g., enable "smallbook").
 
 ** 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.
@@ -120,7 +139,7 @@ SECTION                  READERS
 ----------------------------------
 TUTORIAL             cyd
 TUTORIAL.bg          ogi
-TUTORIAL.cn
+TUTORIAL.cn          xfq
 TUTORIAL.cs          
 TUTORIAL.de          wl
 TUTORIAL.eo
@@ -128,7 +147,7 @@ TUTORIAL.es
 TUTORIAL.fr          
 TUTORIAL.he          eliz
 TUTORIAL.it          
-TUTORIAL.ja             
+TUTORIAL.ja          
 TUTORIAL.ko
 TUTORIAL.nl         Pieter Schoenmakers
 TUTORIAL.pl          
@@ -199,7 +218,6 @@ xresources.texi   cyd
 ** Check the Lisp manual.
 
 abbrevs.texi      rgm
-advice.texi       cyd
 anti.texi         rgm
 back.texi         rgm
 backups.texi      cyd