<?xml version='1.0' encoding="utf-8"?> <!DOCTYPE article SYSTEM "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.3/docbookx.dtd"> <article> <articleinfo> <title>DocBook DSSSL Stylesheet Release Notes</title> <pubdate>03 November 2004</pubdate> <releaseinfo role="cvs">$Id: RELEASE-NOTES.xml,v 1.1 2004/11/04 11:34:01 xmldoc Exp $</releaseinfo> <corpauthor>DocBook Open Repository Team</corpauthor> </articleinfo> <para>These are the release notes for the DocBook DSSSL Stylesheets. At a minimum, this file attempts to document changes to the public APIs and provide a high-level overview of the features added in each release.</para> <section> <title>Release 1.79</title> <para>This release contains fixes for a number of long-standing bugs. See the <ulink url="WhatsNew"/> file for more details. Among the user-visible changes are:</para> <itemizedlist> <listitem> <formalpara> <title>HTML stylesheets</title> <para> <itemizedlist> <listitem> <para>The doctype definition in the HTML output now contains a system identifier, required for better parsing in contemporary browsers.</para> </listitem> <listitem> <para>CSS decoration has been added to procedure steps.</para> </listitem> <listitem> <para>Uses of <VAR> in HTML output (often rendered in italic) have been changed to something more appropriate</para> </listitem> <listitem> <para>The last character of the version was cut off in previous releases.</para> </listitem> <listitem> <para>Processing instruction parsing has been made more robust against arbitrarily formed PIs.</para> </listitem> <listitem> <para>Callout graphics and admonition graphics share a single variable, %stock-graphics-extension%.</para> </listitem> <listitem> <para>The value of the VALIGN attribute has been corrected to MIDDLE instead of CENTER.</para> </listitem> </itemizedlist> </para> </formalpara> </listitem> <listitem> <formalpara> <title>Print stylesheets</title> <para> <itemizedlist> <listitem> <para>Admonition titles and contents are kept together.</para> </listitem> <listitem> <para>Programlistings with callouts now honor the width attribute.</para> </listitem> <listitem> <para>The rendering of othercredit has been made more useful.</para> </listitem> <listitem> <para>Excessive after spacing when a listitem contains multiple paras or verbatim environments has been fixed.</para> </listitem> <listitem> <para>Empty ulinks don't generate footnotes, so they are now omitted from the footnote counting.</para> </listitem> <listitem> <para>Some cases where components were restarting the page numbering were fixed.</para> </listitem> <listitem> <para>article-titlepage-recto-elements has been made to match the HTML version.</para> </listitem> <listitem> <para>Support for revdescription inside revison on titlepages has been added.</para> </listitem> </itemizedlist> </para> </formalpara> </listitem> <listitem> <formalpara> <title>General</title> <para> <itemizedlist> <listitem> <para>"pc" is now allowed as abbreviation for "pica".</para> </listitem> <listitem> <para>The return value of my-debug has been fixed.</para> </listitem> <listitem> <para>A Bosnian translation has been added.</para> </listitem> <listitem> <para>A Bulgarian translation has been added.</para> </listitem> </itemizedlist> </para> </formalpara> </listitem> </itemizedlist> </section> </article>