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You can get the latest version of Texinfo via its home page, <a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo">http://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo</a>. </p> <span id="index-Checklist-for-bug-reports"></span> <p>For bug reports, please include enough information for the maintainers to reproduce the problem. Generally speaking, that means: </p> <ul> <li> The version number of Texinfo and the program(s) or manual(s) involved. </li><li> The contents of any input files necessary to reproduce the bug. </li><li> Precisely how you ran any program(s) involved. </li><li> A description of the problem and samples of any erroneous output. </li><li> Hardware and operating system names and versions. </li><li> Anything else that you think would be helpful. </li></ul> <p>When in doubt whether something is needed or not, include it. It’s better to include too much than to leave out something important. </p> <p>It is critical to send an actual input file that reproduces the problem. What’s not critical is to “narrow down” the example to the smallest possible input—the actual input with which you discovered the bug will suffice. (Of course, if you do do experiments, the smaller the input file, the better.) </p> <p>Any problems with the Info reader in Emacs should be reported to the Emacs developers: see <a data-manual="emacs" href="../emacs/Bugs.html#Bugs">Bugs</a> in <cite>The GNU Emacs Manual</cite>. </p> <span id="index-Patches_002c-contributing"></span> <p>Patches are most welcome; if possible, please make them with ‘<samp>diff <span class="nolinebreak">-c</span><!-- /@w --></samp>’ (see <cite><a data-manual="diffutils" href="../diffutils/index.html#Top">Comparing and Merging Files</a></cite>) and include <samp>ChangeLog</samp> entries (see <a data-manual="emacs" href="../emacs/Change-Log.html#Change-Log">Change Log</a> in <cite>The GNU Emacs Manual</cite>), and follow the existing coding style. </p> </div> <hr> <div class="header"> <p> Next: <a href="Output-Formats.html">Output Formats</a>, Up: <a href="Overview.html">Overview of Texinfo</a> [<a href="index.html#SEC_Contents" title="Table of contents" rel="contents">Contents</a>][<a href="Command-and-Variable-Index.html" title="Index" rel="index">Index</a>]</p> </div> </body> </html>