-This is m4.info, produced by makeinfo version 6.1 from m4.texi.
+This is m4.info, produced by makeinfo version 6.7 from m4.texi.
-This manual (31 December 2016) is for GNU M4 (version 1.4.18), a package
+This manual (28 May 2021) is for GNU M4 (version 1.4.19), a package
containing an implementation of the m4 macro language.
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+ section entitled “GNU Free Documentation License.”
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* M4: (m4). A powerful macro processor.
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some of the longer examples in this manual are also distributed in the
-directory 'm4-1.4.18/examples/', where a more permissive license is in
+directory ‘m4-1.4.19/examples/’, where a more permissive license is in
effect when copying just the examples.
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Preserve its Title (section 1) will typically require changing the
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* Menu:
-* Macro index:: Index for all 'm4' macros
+* Macro index:: Index for all ‘m4’ macros
* Concept index:: Index for many concepts
\1f
File: m4.info, Node: Macro index, Next: Concept index, Up: Indices
-C.1 Index for all 'm4' macros
+C.1 Index for all ‘m4’ macros
=============================
-This index covers all 'm4' builtins, as well as several useful composite
+This index covers all ‘m4’ builtins, as well as several useful composite
macros. References are exclusively to the places where a macro is
introduced the first time.
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