[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #53642] Release Notes are truncated when displayed in the GUI

[Rik]

URL:
  <http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?53642>

                 Summary: Release Notes are truncated when displayed in the
GUI
                 Project: GNU Octave
            Submitted by: rik5
            Submitted on: Fri 13 Apr 2018 08:36:15 AM PDT
                Category: GUI
                Severity: 5 - Blocker
                Priority: 5 - Normal
              Item Group: Regression
                  Status: Confirmed
             Assigned to: None
         Originator Name: 
        Originator Email: 
             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
                 Release: 4.3.90
        Operating System: Any

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Details:

When choosing News->Release Notes from the GUI menubar a window is opened
which contains the contents of the NEWS file.  There seems to be a chunk
missing because it moves from talking about a Qt bug directly to quadcc.



** A known bug in Qt (https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-55357) is
    addressed by limiting GUI sub-panel relocation capabilities for Qt
    versions in the range >= 5.6.1 and  quadcc (f, a, b, [0, tol])

    A warning that a single tolerance input is now interpreted as an
    absolute tolerance will be issued in Octave versions 4.4 and 5,
    after which it will be removed.  The warning has ID
    "Octave:quadcc:RelTol-conversion" and can be disabled with


If I type 'news' in the Command Window then I get the complete file.

The issue appears to be that the NEWS file is a text file, but is being
interpreted as an HTML file, and there are various things like '<' and '>'
which make it appear as if the file is trying to use Markup.

Either these characters need to be escaped or the Qt reader in the GUI needs
to treat this file as plain text.






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