FW: Announce: dblatex 0.1.6

[Michael Smith <smith@xml-doc.org>]

FYI: Benoit Guillon has released a new version of dblatex.

  http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/dblatex/dblatex-0.1.6.tar.bz2?download

(The "TBO" in the "TBO problem" he mentions stands for the "The
Big One" and is, I think, a problem related to processing of
instances of text content that contains multiple sequential line
breaks.)

Note that the package now includes the "bibtopic.sty" file. So if
you had tried to install a previous version of dblatex and had the
install fail with a message saying that it couldn't find
"bibtopic.sty", try again with the latest release. It should work
as expected now.

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To: "dblatex-users@lists.sourceforge.net" <dblatex-users@lists.sourceforge.net>
From: "benoit.guillon" <benoit.guillon@tele2.fr>
Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2005 01:00:04 +0200
Subject: [Dblatex-users] Announce: dblatex 0.1.6

Hello,

The dblatex 0.1.6 release is now available from http://dblatex.sf.net.

The main changes between this release and the release 0.1.5 are some bug  
fixes, and a better support of figures, programlisting, and screen  
elements. A verbatim layout style is used by default, but it can be  
changed by the user. Besides, if there is a consensus about how it should  
look like, I'm ready to change the default settings.

The release includes the patches recently sent on this list, but  
unfortunately does not fix the TBO problem yet.

Note that the dblatex home page is not yet updated, so the downloading  
need to go directly to the SF download page, or to use directly this URL:  
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/dblatex/dblatex-0.1.6.tar.bz2?download

Here is precisely the changes between 0.15 and 0.1.6:

* Better <figure> and <informalfigure> rendering:
  - consistent behaviour, where captions and title are printed separately.
  - possibility to ask for title below or above the image (parameter
    figure.title.top).
  - possibility to change the caption style (parameter
    mediaobject.caption.style).
  - imagedata.default.scale parameter added to have a default
    scaling rule applied on every imagedata that contains no
    scaling attribute. In  particular when set to 'pagebound' the
    images keep their natural size up to the  page boundaries.

* Better <programlisting> and <screen> rendering, thanks to the  
  listings.sty package possibilities:
  - all the attributes are supported.
  - a default rendering layout is proposed.
  - long lines are wrapped.
  - literal.width.ignore parameter added.
  - literal.layout.options parameter added to overwrite the
    default  verbatim style.
  - bibtopic.sty included for convenience.

* Minor improvements:
  - seg.item.separator parameter added to let the user choose the separator
    between several <segitem>s.
  - a breakline is forced after a <term> when it is followed by a list.
  - caption position can be choosed for tables (parameter table.title.top).
  - \nopagebreak put after list titles.
  - a FAQ section (quite small for the moment) added to the manual.
  - bibtopic.sty provided for convenience.

* Bug fixes:
  - texclean: caret ('^') handled correctly
  - texclean: bug in removing extra breaklines
  - texclean: table header parsed correctly
  - dblatex: compilation with some parameters (option -P) on a doc
    using  MathML fails.
  - biblio.xsl: biblioentry/edition escaping done.
  - inlined.xsl: <errortext> added.
  - inlined.xsl: the arrow separating <guimenu> and <guimenuitem>
    is  changed to a real LaTeX arrow.
  - misc.xsl: removing unexpected latex package inclusion (a4wide).
  - dbk_biblio.sty: removing unexpected latex package inclusion (fancyhdr).
  - lists.xsl: <term> is more robust, with the <term> content
    enclosed by  { }.

Regards,
BG

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