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## A. Change Log

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    Release 0.3.2:
    --------------

    - Add feature request #2052157 to have HTML table support
    - Full support of the --quiet option
    - Improve setup.py to make package building easier in a development environment
    - Improve the document title formatting, to render <superscript> for example.
    - Fix debian bug #629110 to work around an appendix package limitation with
      xetex
    - Fix bug #3094120 to work in paranoid mode (required for TexLive 2010)
    - Fix debian bug #623590 to format elements like <emphasis> contained
      in <filename>.
    - Fix a bug that prevented from putting and index at the highest level when
      preceded by a <part>.

      Release 0.3.1.1:
      ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    - Add feature request #2999505 to be able to pass a user index style file
    - Improve setup.py to be able to build and distribute a dblatex egg package
    - Fix bug #2941472: print out the procedure title
    - Fix a python deprecation warning in setup.py
    - Fix a bug in setup.py to install correctly the XHTML documentation
    - Fix a bug in sgmtag.xsl to have the right font type for <sgmltag>

    Release 0.3.1:
    --------------

    - Fix bug in referencing to external books when xref.hypermarkup=1.
    - Fix bug #2969329 to have sub-tables working
    - Fix bug #3006458 to support the &#x21B5; Unicode character
    - Fix bug #3038067 md5 python module deprecation warning
    - Fix bug #3039592 to pass correct parameters to inkscape when converting SVG
    - Fix bug #3072636 to process preface/info/title
    - Fix bug #3137026 to remove a babel setup side effect on tables
    - Fix Debian bug #609374 to have nested quotes working
    - Fix Debian bug #617842 to write HTML documentation in UTF-8 format
    - Fix some documentation errors
    - Fix <anchor> used in bibliography mode
    - Fix <qandadiv> title support to be robust to a missing title element
    - Fix Debian bug #622357 to make <filename> more robust in <footnote>
    - Add the parameters:
      * linenumbering.scope: which templates where linenumbering parameters apply
      * linenumbering.default: default linenumbering attribute value
      * linenumbering.everyNth: indicates which lines to number in verbatim blocks
    - Improve tables to support the tabularx environment (see documentation).
      Add the parameter:
      * table.default.tabstyle: default tabstyle to apply when no tabstyle attribute
        is defined.
    - Add a not fully implemented --quiet option

    Release 0.3:
    ------------

    - Make the latex style more robust to latex classes without abstract
      environment.
    - Partially Fix bug #2953261 to render elements under <methodsynopsis>
    - Fix bug #2969329 to allow a <screen> in an <entrytbl> (Pulchart's patch
      partially applied).
    - Fix bug #2820728 to correctly render caption elements.
    - Fix bug #2967024 to make cmdsynopsis working for DocBook 5.
    - Fix bug #2957897 to render the chapter/info/title node.
    - Fix Debian Bug #563659: adapt the url template behaviour to the installed
      Texlive version (2007 or 2009).
    - Apply the two Andreas's debian errorhandler patches (replace an obsoleted
      method).
    - Apply the Debian bug #570582 patch from Andreas.
    - Change the segmented list implentation to workaround a bug in processing DB5
      documents (use the Docbook Project implementation).
    - Add the default.table.width parameter (equivalent to the Docbook Project
      parameter).
    - Allow an autowidth setup local to a table through a Processing Instruction.
    - Convert latex logos to PDF-1.4 format supported by XeTeX.
    - Add parameter biblioentry.numbered to have bibliographic references numbered.
    - Apply bug #2891018 patch to improve biblio.xsl
    - Fix a bug to compute correctly the relative paths of <imagedata> filerefs.
      Apply the same templates than the DocBook Project (use of @xml:base)
    - Make xsltproc.py compatible with versions providing --xincludestyle
      or not (bug introduced with 0.2.12).
    - Fix bug #2955605 in setup.py that makes install crash under windows
      (bug introduced in 0.2.10).
    - Fix bug to handle correctly a relative XSL customization file path
      (use of the -p option).
    - Fix a bug that merged the example and equation floats in the same TOC
    - Add hyperlink to <xref> to books.
    - Move the book ID anchor so that an hyperlink to this anchor points to the
      beginning of the book and not after the Table of Content.
    - Change some output messages so that they don't appear as error messages.

    Release 0.2.12:
    ---------------

    - Add support for feature #2836168 with the xref.hypermarkup parameter that
      wraps the whole xref markup with an hyperlink.
    - The <index> section can be unnumbered when the new parameter index.numbered
      is set to 0.
    - <bibliography> sections can be unnumbered when the new parameter
      bibliography.numbered is set to 0. The parameter
      bibliography.tocdepth is also given.
    - Basic <biblioref> support added. The specific attributes are not handled.
    - Allow the appendices to be followed by other sections.
    - Fix indexterm bug in titles.
    - Apply patch #2821475: add a converter to transform SVG graphics with
      Inkscape (thanks to David Necas)
    - Fix bug #2821901: <reference> headings to the right level
    - Fix bug #2818215: square brackets must be protected in <member>s
    - Fix bug #2819592: references working with xml:id (DocBook 5 compatibility)
    - Fix Debian bug #533332: wrong page numeration in PDF viewers with XeTeX
      backend
    - Fix Debian bug #528964: linebreaks preserved in formatted verbatim
      environment

    Release 0.2.11:
    ---------------

    - Improve the <set> support: dblatex can build all the PDF files (one per
      book) and the package xr is used to make cross-references between the books.
    - Improve the xetex font switch macros (experimental fontconfig support)
    - Format the elements contained in <ulink>s (not only text)
    - Add some hook to external error handlers +
      Add the Debian error handler in the repository (the maintainer is still
      A. Hoenen)
    - Change verbatim implementation in order to be able to easily add new
      elements embeddable in <programlisting>s
    - Optimize the pdftex backend by supporting the -draftmode option
      (experimental)
    - Fix documentation bug #1997998.
    - Fix bug #1831383: use \ref*{} to display <xref> in a TOC or LOT
    - Fix Debian bug #528849 about the <refclass> rendering, add the
      refclass.suppress parameter, and fix the <refpurpose> dash separator
      (use of &mdash; instead of &ndash;)
    - Fix the bug where \nolinkurl{} strips the spaces
    - Fix a bug annotation
    - Glossary headings are now rendered like refentry headings
      (add glossary.numbered and glossary.tocdepth parameters)
    - Add and modify scripts to synch SF CVS and Mercurial repositories

    Release 0.2.10:
    ---------------

    - Fix Debian bug #525692: remove babel shorthand for russian
    - Fix Debian bug #514932: apply XSLT options when building listing
      (thanks to W. Borgert's patch).
    - Fix Debian bug #499500: apply the A. Hoenen patch
    - Fix bug #2412650: make curly braces more robust in <indexterm>s.
    - Fix bug #2393435: handle <table> @pgwide for two column mode.
    - Fix bug #2381306: make <ulink>s more robust in <term>
    - Fix bug #2058771: use \ensuremath{} to make equations robust.
    - Fix bug #1987025: use @xml:id when provided to make labels.
    - Fix bug #1975259: apply general title template to handle escaped chars in
      qandaset titles.
    - Fix bug in handling @xreflabel in <xref>
    - Fix annotation bug: add a correct font setup to each annotation tex file
    - Fix some character translations: backtick (`), degree symbol
    - Fix SGML to XML conversion through osx
    - Use Info/title to render qansaset headings
    - Use \ensuremath{} to make latin1 from UTF8 conversion more robust
    - Add the parameters:
      * doc.layout: configure the overall document layout
        (deciding if it contains a coverpage, a toc, a frontmatter etc.)
      * variablelist.term.separator,
      * refentry.generate.name,
      * ulink.show (mechanism extended with @xrefstyle),
      * ulink.footnotes.
    - Remove useless parameters (rely on localized gentext instead):
      * refnamediv.title,
      * refsynopsis.title,
    - Move the 'qandaset.defaultlabel' parameter to 'qanda.defaultlabel' in
      order to be common with the DocBook Project XSL parameter.
    - By default, a document subset (i.e. no <article> or <book> root element
      is no more wrapped with an <article>. No more unexpected cover page and
      front matter.
    - Allow a tex equation in <alt> without latex math mode delimiters in both
      <equation> and <inlineequation>.
    - Add texmath PI in <alt> in order to avoid automatic math mode wrapping
    - Make XeTeX support more mature (but still experimental).
    - Change the documentation structure.

    Release 0.2.9:
    --------------

    - Fix bug #1838293: <dedication> and <colophon> support where <title>s
      are optional.
    - Fix bug #1833581 (biblio elements).
    - Fix bug #1832623 (<userinput> rendering in normal mode).
    - Fix bug #1769020 (date in <biblioentry>).
    - Fix bug #1745318 with a minipage in \author{}.
      Fix the similar debian bug #465221.
    - Fix bug #1642442 (missing unicode characters).
    - Fix debian bug #466162 (German localization).
    - Fix debian bug #461919 (rendering abstract titles).
    - Fix debian bug #459474 (simplesect in appendix).
    - Fix unicode character encoding in TeX equations in <alt>.
    - Fix bug that transforms "<<" to french quotation marks.
    - Fix spurious spaces in inline graphics.
    - Fix to have frenchb 2.x support (option macros changed).
    - Add refentry.numbered and refentry.tocdepth parameters to have the
      refentry titles numbered (default) or not.
    - Add <partintro>s handling.
    - Add linking to <areaset>.
    - Add <emphasis> rendering in <programlisting> and <screen>.
    - Add some logic to handle the graphics in equations.
      Add the alt.use parameter.
    - Add some XeTeX support. One can use -b xetex to compile with
      xelatex. Add the xetex.font parameter too.
    - Add the "angle" attribute to the dblatex Processing Instruction.
      When set in an <imageobject>, you can rotate the image to the
      required angle.

    Release 0.2.8:
    --------------

    - Fix <userinput> in <programlisting> (#1832623)
    - Fix <literal> in <example> title (#1831391)
    - Fix <foreignphrase> in <example> title (#1831385)
    - Fix <indexterm> in <programlisting> (#1831374)
    - Fix UTF-8 encoding in olink target.db data (like <ttl>)
    - Fix <colophon> after the index. (Debian bug #447607)
    - Fix <title> in <sidebar>s. (Debian bug #447616)
    - Fix stuck <holder>s in <copyright> (Debian bug #446871)
    - Fix <question> italic bug. (#1800469)
    - Fix an <xref> bug to a biblioentry.
    - Fix setup.py to allow the --skip-build option. (#1790229)
    - Fix the portugese babel loading. (#1797774)
    - Fix <xref> to a <part>.
    - Fix some missing parameters used by gentext.xsl.
    - Fix a weird behaviour with \nolinkurl{} used in a table cell.
    - Fix the page.citation mode shown when $insert.xref.page.number = 'yes'.
    - Fix missing punct.honorific parameter.
    - Fix the <refentry> sections to the right nested level. (#1792996)
    - A list preamble (before the list items) is now processed. (#1783455)
    - Add lastpage.sty under latex/misc, for MikTeX distribs.
    - Add some table <entry> consistency check.
    - Add the parameters: equation.default.position and example.default.position.
    - Add the parameter: cjk.font.
    - Add pdftitle and pdfauthor in PDF document infos.

    Release 0.2.7:
    --------------

    * Improvements:
      - Xref completely refactored to work with the common
        DocBook Project XSL stylesheets version 1.72.
      - Olink and xrefstyle support added.

    * Minor changes:
      - dblatex accepts input data from stdin.
      - newtbl.bgcolor.thead added, to change the default table header color.
      - Italian translation added.
      - Several user stylesheets (option -p) can be passed.
      - In the docbook styles, the front matter page numbers are now in roman.
      - <biblioid> can be used instead of <pubsnumber> in the doc info,
        mostly for docbook 5 files.
      - monoseq.small parameter added (Michael Smith's patch)

    * Bug fixes:
      - Fix bug with german babel (e.g '"S' becomes 'SS').
      - Fix Author listing bug.
      - Fix <screen> in <footnote>s, in simple cases.
      - Fix footmisc package inclusion bug (must be loaded before hyperref).
      - Fix bibliomixed/bibliomset text bug (tex characters must be escaped).
      - Fix xref to a callout.
      - Fix the use of <alt> in equations: when <alt> is used, the other
        elements must not be processed. Parameter tex.math.in.alt added
        to choose if <alt> should be used by default.
      - Fix empty MathML equation case.
      - Fix bug #1778655: added anchors in <para> having an id
      - Fix bug #1777645: footnotes with id handled correctly
      - Fix bug #1777575: an <indexterm> between paragraphs don't stick the
        paragraphs anymore.
      - Fix bug #1777364: <thead> no more duplicated in nested tables.
      - Fix bug #1745309: <author>s under docinfo are not concatenated.
      - Fix the last page bug shown with a recent texlive
      - Fix bug about changebars for consecutive paragraphs
      - Ulinks shown as hot links in biblio enties.
      - Fix index bug to front matter pages (when front page numbers are in
        roman).

    Release 0.2.6:
    --------------

    * Minor improvements:
      - Headings code refactored.
      - Unnumbered sections (e.g. preface) can be put in TOC. Add the parameters:
        * preface.tocdepth
        * dedication.tocdepth
        * colophon.tocdepth
      - Basic <itermset> support
      - Basic <beginpage> support (start a new page only at the current page)
      - Parameter monoseq.hyphenation added to handle SF bug #1727482
      - Add draft.watermark={0|1} and draft.mode=maybe, allowing to deduce the
        draft mode from the @status='draft' attribute, and allowing to print
        the "DRAFT" text as a watermark on every page. (thanks to Colin Marquardt's
        patch)

    * Bug fixes:
      - Fix display of several <glossseealso>s in <glossentry>
      - Fix <para> output in list items (<listitem>, <step>)
      - Fix unicode bug in <step>/<title>s
      - Fix <footnoteref> bug in <table>s (thanks to Colin Marquardt's patch)
      - Fix setup.py to make bdist_rpm work (thanks to Tim Fuehner's patch)
      - Fix some missing characters (euro, etc.) by using the pifont and textcomp
        packages.
      - Fix unicode bug in some verbatim environment.
      - Fix bug #1727472 (glossentry without acronym has no line break).
      - Fix URL bug under Windows. (dbtex.py)
      - Add some missing greek symbols in unicode mapping. (unient.py)

    Release 0.2.5:
    --------------

    * Improvements:
      - Basic support for CJK languages. Use the CJK package and the cyberbit fonts.
        The HLatex package is not supported yet.
      - Support native UTF-8 latex compilation, thanks to the ucs package.
      - Add the -s, --texstyle option.
      - Preamble handling refactored. The expected benefit is to make dblatex more
        customizable.
      - Drop the docbook style 'article' or 'report' option. It is up to the style
        to find out if it is an article or not (if needed).
      - Support @valign combined with @morerow.
      - Better URL handling in tables (special characters like '%').
      - Better dblatex package precedence, to ensure that the dblatex specific
        packages have always precedence over the system wide package.
      - Figure captions take into account the inline docbook elements.

    * Bug fixes:
      - Restore the -r, --texpost option.
      - Fix use of compact itemizes in french.
      - Fix --tmpdir bug for relative paths.
      - Fix a small synopsis bug.
      - Fix SF bug #1672862. Change the parsing separators to some non-human
        writable pattern.
      - Fix the block display of MathML equations put in an <informalequation>.
      - Fix <programlisting> latex translation bug.
      - Remove unexpected space strippings in <title>s.
      - Fix bug about locale formatting (in l10n.xsl).

    Release 0.2.4:
    --------------

    * Minor improvements:
      - Basic DocBook 5 support (namespace stripping)
      - More consistent console output (use of logging)
      - Add general parser/encoding mechanism (to fix <programlisting> encoding
        troubles)
      - Better <calloulist> item indentation. The calloutlist.style parameter is
        provided to change the rendering.

    * Bug fixes:
      - <releaseinfo> displayed in a biblioentry.
      - draft.mode parameter more consistent.
      - <biblioid> support in biblioentry.
      - Fix regression bug (introduced in 0.2.3): ps building possible again
      - Fix bug about image conversion combined with -bdvips
      - Indexterm taken into account when in <refmeta>
      - Use of subprocess instead of os.system() to have a portable latex
        compilation.
      - Add -R0 to dvips to work with 5.95b (thanks to Andreas Hoenen)
      - Fix URL UTF-8 to Latin1 encoding
      - Fix bug in dumping latex errors when latex fails
      - <programlisting> characters now encoded to Latin1
      - Basic <highlights> support

    Release 0.2.3:
    --------------

    * Improvements:
      - Experimental annotation support (enabled when annotation.support=1)
      - Add imageobjectco.hide={0|1} to hide the callout numbers on the image.

    * Setup changes and fixes:
      - Check the available XSLTs (xsltproc is not required if 4Suite
        is available) (SF Bug #1617458).
      - Avoid optional package dependency (unicode.sty)
      - Add the --use-python-path to use the path of the python interpreter that
        runs setup.py, instead of relying on env to locate python
        (thanks to Max Horn, the Fink packager)
      - Fix the wrapper script building when --root is used
        (thanks to Max Horn, the Fink packager)

    * Minor changes:
      - When <releaseinfo> is set, but empty, the box in the header is removed.
      - Add doc.toc.show={0|1} to let user skip the TOC.
      - Add draft.mode={'yes'|'no'} to print or not the <releaseinfo> content in the
        header of each page (SF Request #1600886).

    * Bug fixes:
      - Some locale elements translated to iso-latin1.
      - Locale mappings updated for 'de' and 'es'.
      - Spanish babel setup added, to workaround some of the bugs introduced by
        spanish.
      - Load babel before the docbook style, to work around the babel/3875 bug.
      - Xref to a term containing empty lines.
      - String-replace origin detailed in COPYRIGHT.
      - <abstract> duplication fixed (SF Bug #1560164).
      - Spurious space fix.
      - Make the -B option actually work.

    Release 0.2.2:
    --------------

    * BibTeX support.
      - Some bibliography databases can be specified in <?bibtex?>
      - A bibliography style can be specified in <?bibtex?>
      - A global style can be defined with the latex.biblio.style parameter
      - Options -L bib_path and -l bst_path added
      - Bibtex is automatically called when the file is compiled

    * Table changes:
      - Longtables can be used to have formal tables across several pages. Use
        table.in.float=0 for this (Bug SF #1463054).
      - Automatic table width allowed with newtbl.autowidth={default|all}
      - Footnotes in tables are possible.
      - Basic programlisting/screen support in table.

    * Other changes:
      - Better cited bibliography support.
      - Possible use of natbib citation styles (belgabor patch)
      - Better MathML entity mapping.
      - Footnote in programlisting possible.

    * Bug fixes:
      - Fix about tilde translation.
      - Check if a title is numbered or not for TOC filtering.
      - Bug SF #1587091: link to formalpara (and refsection)
      - Bug SF #1600124: correct URI from pathname in XSL parameter file
      - Bug SF #1600441: handle image files with spaces in the path
      - Bug SF #1606166: verbatim in legalnotice
      - Catch a 'Rerun' asked by bibtopic or changebar packages
      - Xref to a formal table fixed
      - Escape characters in some biblio elements.
      - Glossary title fix.
      - Better MathML entity mapping.
      - Added calloutlist title.
      - Handles UTF-8 indexterms
      - Fix anchor in glossterms
      - Extends unicode support (with passivetex packages). It is activated with
        latex.unicode.use=1
      - Handles callout list titles
      - Handles xref to a glossentry

    Release 0.2.1:
    --------------

    * Python code improvements:
      - Use of codecs for better and systematic unicode support.
      - Extensible XSLT engines, loaded as plugins.
      - Option -m added to select the XSLT to use.
      - XSLT module using 4Suite (http://4suite.org) added.
      - Possibility to have user and/or system-wide configuration files.

    * XSL improvements:
      - UTF-8 XML output.
      - Hexadecimal color like <?dblatex bgcolor="#cceeff"?> supported.
      - Named color like <?dblatex bgcolor="blue"?> supported.
      - lang.xsl: contains all lang stuff and calls the babel setup hook.
      - newtbl.xsl: @cellpadding used for horizontal padding.
      - pdf.annot.options parameter added to customize the PDF text annotation
        rendering (width, height, depth, title).
      - latex.class.book and latex.class.article parameters added to let user
        choose an alternative document class.

    * Latex improvements:
      - Cleaner locale handling.
      - New latex commands to customize the babel setup.
      - Default babel setup for french.
      - Remark/comment rendered as PDF text annotations. Fixes Bug #374210 and
        allows remark in boxes/minipages like a note.

    * Bug fixes:
      - Cross-references use of key() instead of id().
      - newtbl.xsl, xref.xsl: more conformant XSL code.
      - dbk_core.sty: use enumitem instead of enumerate (simple style).
      - biblio.xsl: bibliographic title fixed for an article (use of \refname).
      - dbtex.py: bug fix when both -Tstyle -Pparam are used.
      - legalnotice.xsl: bug shown by xsltproc-1.1.18 fixed.
      - graphic.xsl: escape graphic filenames.

    Release 0.2:
    ------------

    * Better osx(1) integration. The SDATA entities are translated to the equivalent
      Unicode characters.

    * Better windows compatibility thanks to the Nicolas Pernetty's patches:
      - Use of a portable 'which' during the install dependency check.
      - Use of shutil instead of unix equivalent commands.
      - Portable TEXINPUTS variable setup.
      - Compatible figure path setup.
      - Compatible package paths.
      - Correct URI put in the customized XSL stylesheets.

    * Better table support:
      - Verbatim (litterallayout, address, synopsis, classsynopsis) in tables
        now work.
      - Informaltable nesting is possible.
      - Basic <entrytbl> support.
      - Better @valign support.
      - Column, row and entry can be coloured in tables by using
        <?dblatex bgcolor="..."?>. The alternative hhline package can be used to
        have row lines properly printed (newtbl.use.hhline='1')
      - Basic support of @float and @floatstyle in <table>.

    * Minor imageobject/figure improvements:
      - Basic support of @float and @floatstyle in <figure>.
      - Possibility to use imageobject/@role='dblatex' to select the image to
        process.
      - Alternative <imageobject>s in a <mediaobjectco> are supported (DocBook 5).

    * Some cleanups and bug fixes.
      - latex compilation cycle bug fix.
      - logparser bug fix (rerun for table)
      - dbk_fonts.sty now contains the font setup
      - coref/@linkend fix.
      - user manual documentation reorganized
      - PDF manual installed in a proper way
      - Debian manpage added to the package and used in the dblatex manual
      - latex.figure.boxed parameter changed to imagedata.boxed
      - latex.figure.position parameter changed to figure.default.position
      - table.default.position added
      - table counter bug fix
      - <filename> in section title bug fix
      - mklistings.xsl: URI fix when the path contains some spaces
      - imagedata.py: robust to paths containing spaces
      - \vdots supported in MathML

    Release 0.2pre:
    ---------------

    * Major change: publishing code (except XSL) is re-written in Python. Perl,
      GNU make and shell scripts are no more used.

    * Minor improvements:
      - list @continuation, @numeration, @spacing attributes now handled.
      - filename.as.url parameter added to avoid forced hyphenation with spurious
        '-' characters.

    * Bug fixes:
      - <alt> not printed in verbatim mode, and only in <*equation> elements.
      - Entities &#8217; and &#8230; correctly mapped.
      - db2latex.sty, docbook.sty: uses \examplename (locale).
      - <uri>, <tag> defined.

    Release 0.1.10:
    ---------------

    * Minor improvements:
      - Special 'maxwidth' and 'maxheight' imagedata.default.scale setup added.
      - glossterm.auto.link={0|1} parameter added.
      - Add bookinfo spanish locale.

    * Bug fixes:
      - Scripts handle correctly spaces in file paths (Debian bug [1]).
      - Itemize fix, to be compatible with french babel (Debian bug [2]).
      - Multiple copyrights correctly handled (Debian bug [3])
      - Latex files cleanup (remove pslatex, epsfig, etc. Debian bug [4]).
      - Several paragraphs correctly handled in table cells.
      - Cross-references, like <xref> or <link>, correctly handled in table cells.
      - <ulink> with URL containing the character '#' correctly handled in table
        cells.

    [1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=366721
    [2] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=374215
    [3] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=374212
    [4] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=376418

    Release 0.1.9:
    --------------

    * Minor improvements:
      - make.year.ranges and the make.single.year.ranges parameters added.
      - equations without title are now latex equations (not formula in a float).
      - xref to <varlistentry> or <term> now works.
      - newtbl is updated and becomes the default table implementation used.
        It now handles some tricky cell spanning cases.

    * Bug fix:
      - en.xml: chapter en appendix xref labelling fix.
      - de.xml: nested quotes fix.
      - dbk_hyper.sty: PDF compilation test fix (use of the package ifpdf).
      - texclean: <xt> parsing recoded to make it safer.
      - texclean: handle entities in table cells.
      - texclean: \pm added.
      - db2latex.sty: equation counter level fix (set to chapter instead of article)
      - bug fix about the text of a link to a <term> containing <ulink> or <link>
      - qandaset.xsl: wrong test to close a list
      - verbatimco.xsl, mklistings.xsl: correct identifier to listing
      - xref.xsl: escape characters of refname cross-reference

    Release 0.1.8:
    --------------

    * Minor improvements:
      - doc.alignment parameter added. It defines the text alignment for the whole
        document.
      - Better programlisting, screen support:
        inlinegraphic[@format='linespecific'] is handled.
      - The book or article wrapper inherits from the root element information.
      - Better newtbl table support: the case colwidth="1em+5*" is correctly handled.
      - xref to refnamediv is now possible.
      - imagedata.file.check parameter added. It checks if the referenced image file
        exists. If not, the mediaobject alternative (textobject) is used. Set to 1
        by default. (equation.[001-004])
      - titleabbrev.in.toc parameter added. When set to 1 the titleabbrev content
        is put in the TOC instead of the title. Set to 1 by default. (article.[004-005])
      - dblatex does not convert images when output is latex only.
      - GIF images are converted on the fly to PDF.
      - <emphasis role="underline"> is supported.
      - <trademark class="service"> is supported.
      - set.book.num parameter added. When the root element is a set, this
        parameter can be used to select the book to print. Set to 1 by default.
      - doc.lot.show parameter added, to ask for printing some LoTs. The value is
        a comma separated list that can contain "figure", "table", "equation",
        "example". The order of the names is the order of the LoTs.
        Example:
        doc.lot.show=figure,table asks for printing only the List of Figures and the
        List of Tables, in this order.
      - qandaset.defaultlabel parameter added to define a default label when the
        attribute is not defined. Default is 'number'.
      - <bibliolist> support.
      - Automatic biblioentry abbreviation used if <abbrev> and @id are not defined.
      - date removed from the native style cover page

    * Bug fix:
      - COPYRIGHT: contains LGPL text to respect the Debian constraints
      - db2latex.sty: to have \RaggedRight working
      - dbk_graphic.sty: wrong \imgheight setting
      - sections.xsl: section level is now correct under an appendix within an
        article
      - mediaobject.xsl: imageobjectco is now handled when embedded in a
        mediaobject.
      - mediaobject.xsl: having both contentwidth="x%" and contentdepth="y%" is
        now possible. @entityref used before @fileref.
      - mediaobject.xsl: having @width or @depth and @scalefit=1 is now considered
        as if the image with its natural size is in a viewport defined by width
        and/or depth.
      - runlatex: compile twice to have the correct number of pages when there is an
        index.
      - docbook.sty: an index in an article is correctly handled.
      - lists.xsl: simplelist[@inline] bug fix. Weird vertical space removed
      - lists.xsl: list nesting depth is now checked, to prevent latex compilation
        crash. (orderedlist.004, orderedlist.005)
      - dbk_item.sty: include enumerate package to handle orderedlist/@numeration.
      - sgml2xml.pl: empty anchor element supported.
      - biblio.xsl: a default title bibliography is provided (part.001)
      - xref.xsl, labelid.xsl: the titles can now contain things like xref, link,
        anchor, inlinegraphic or inlinemediaobject.
      - common/<lang>.xml: replace some unicode values by latex equivalent.
      - qandaset.xsl: the list environment used for numbered <qandaentry>s was
        not properly used.
      - db2latex.sty, dbsimple.sty, docbook.sty: sidebar changed to an environment
        that can contain verbatim stuff. (lot.001)
      - xref.xsl: xref to a biblioentry is now the same as a citation

    Release 0.1.7:
    --------------

    * Callout support:
      - <programlistingco> and <screenco> supported, even for external files.
      - <mediaobjectco> supported.

    * Better <programlisting> or <screen> support:
      - External files (eg, in <textdata>) are handled.
      - literal.lines.showall parameter added, to remove the empty last
        lines, when set to 0. Set by default to 1.

    * Legalnotices are printed in the native docbook style.

    * An abstract in an article is printed.

    * Better <xref> support:
      - <xref> to a list with a title is possible.
      - <xref> to a refentry is possible.

    * Other improvements:
      - term.breakline parameter added to have the <listitem> on a new line below
        the <term>.
      - Hyphenation forced for text using a typewriter font. Moreover the font is
        smaller.
      - doc.publisher.show parameter added, to print the dblatex logo on the cover
        page.
      - doc.pdfcreator.show parameter added, to have the fill the Creator field in
        PDF information section.
      - Running dblatex on a root element different from article or book does not
        fail anymore, except for <set>.

    * Bug fixes:
      - dbk_table.sty: make \@xmultirow long.
      - sgml2xml.pl: empty textdata element handled.

    Release 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.

    * 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 { }.

    Release 0.1.5:
    --------------

    * dblatex supports the new option -T <target_style>. It specifies which
      latex style is to be used for format the output. The default available
      latex styles are:
      - simple: the rendering is very close to original latex rendering
      - native: the rendering is the original rendering used to produce the
        manual (default one)
      - db2latex: the rendering tries to be as close as possible to the
        DB2LaTeX formatting.

    * The configure script can select the default latex style to use with the
      option --target:
      Example:
      ./configure --prefix=/where/to/install --target=simple

    * The use of make instead of gmake is now detected by configure.

    * Other changes:
      - possibility to define the figures to use in admonitions,
      - \textregistered and \copyright robustness improved,
      - <legalnotice> support,
      - <footnote> support improved: it can be used in <term>s and in <title>s,
      - better <subscript> and <superscript> support,
      - <caption> in <mediaobject> is displayed (when <figure> not used)
      - <pubdate> and <copyright> mapped to latex macros
      - <xref> works in <term>s
      - parameter latex.class.options added
      - texclean optimisation, to convert a figure only once
      - bug fix in specread (XslParam parsing)
      - native table improvement (support any size units)

    Release 0.1.5pre:
    -----------------

    * Any document language should be well supported, since babel is now included
      for the related language.

    * Some latex rendering aspects are removed from the XSL stylesheets (they should
      never have been in these stylesheets): \parindent value, \parskip value,
      \thispagestyle{fancy} for pages containing chapters.

    * The following XSL parameters are added:
      - latex.babel.use={0|1(default)}: set to 0 the babel package is not included
        whatever the document language is.
      - latex.babel.language: empty by default, this parameter forces the use of
        the specified babel language whatever the document language is.
      - newtbl.use={0(default)|1}: set to one use the David Hedley table support
        (very good and no Perl parsing needed).

    * New table support, completely re-written by David Hedley. One can use this
      new XSL table code by setting the parameter newtbl.use=1.

    * XML source files with any extension are correctly handled. Previously one
      needed to give XML files with extension .xml.

    * &ndash; and &mdash; entities support (texclean).

    * Bug fixes:
      - <indexterm> were not put under their alphabetical letter.
      - <indexterm> special characters '@', '!', '|' correctly handled.
      - <personname> is now supported.
      - <ulink> URL hyphenation is now correctly handled.
      - <ulink> without text is correctly handled (use of @url content).
      - template "scape" was defined twice (it fails with recent xsltproc).
      - <refentrytitle> and <refname> correctly handled.
      - patch for colortbl package bug (latex/3797)

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