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  1. <?xml version='1.0' encoding="utf-8"?>
  2. <!DOCTYPE article SYSTEM "http://docbook.org/xml/4.4/docbookx.dtd">
  3. <article>
  4. <articleinfo>
  5. <title>DocBook Slides Release Notes</title>
  6. <pubdate><?dbtimestamp format="Y-m-d"?></pubdate>
  7. <releaseinfo role="cvs">$Id: RELEASE-NOTES.xml 9639 2012-10-22 18:41:00Z stefan $</releaseinfo>
  8. <corpauthor>DocBook Project Development Team</corpauthor>
  9. </articleinfo>
  10. <para>These are the release notes for the DocBook Slides
  11. distribution. This file provides a high-level overview of features
  12. and API changes in each release.</para>
  13. <para>Bug fixes are (mostly) not documented here. For a complete
  14. list of changes, including descriptions of bug fixes, see the <ulink
  15. url="NEWS"/> file, which is auto-generated from the commit
  16. descriptions for changes in the project CVS repository.</para>
  17. <section>
  18. <title>Release 3.4.0</title>
  19. <para>This is a feature release that includes some significant
  20. schema changes as well as fixes for a few bugs. The feature
  21. changes include newly added support for generating presentations
  22. in HTML Help format. There are also experimental versions of
  23. stylesheets for generating presentations in Keynote and SVG
  24. formats. It also includes a new (and still experimental)
  25. <filename><ulink url="install.sh" >install.sh</ulink></filename>
  26. script to facilitate XML catalog and locating-rules setup.</para>
  27. <section id="V340_schema">
  28. <title>Schemas</title>
  29. <itemizedlist>
  30. <listitem>
  31. <para>Slides (non-full) is now based on <ulink
  32. url="http://docbook.org/xml/simple/1.1/index.html" >Simplified
  33. DocBook 1.1</ulink> and Slides "full" is now based on <ulink
  34. url="http://docbook.org/xml/4.4/index.html" >DocBook
  35. 4.4</ulink>. The main benefit this provides is the ability to
  36. use HTML tables in your Slides XML source (instead of just CALS
  37. tables).</para>
  38. </listitem>
  39. <listitem>
  40. <para>RELAX NG schemas in RNC (compact-syntax) form as well as
  41. in RNG (XML syntax) form are now included in the
  42. distribution. You can use those to do context-sensitive
  43. Slides editing in a RELAX NG-aware editor such as Emacs/nXML,
  44. oXygen XML Editor, XMLBuddy, or Exchanger XML Editor. (Note
  45. that the RELAX NG schemas are currently generated from the
  46. DTDs).</para>
  47. </listitem>
  48. <listitem>
  49. <para>A <filename><ulink url="locatingrules.xml"
  50. >locatingrules.xml</ulink> </filename> file has been added
  51. to the distribution. The
  52. <filename><ulink url="locatingrules.xml"
  53. >locatingrules.xml</ulink></filename> file tells a
  54. "locating rules"-aware editor such as Emacs/nXML to
  55. automatically associate the included RELAX NG Slides schema
  56. with any document whose root element is
  57. <sgmltag>slides</sgmltag>, <sgmltag>foil</sgmltag>,
  58. <sgmltag>foilgroup</sgmltag>, or
  59. <sgmltag>speakernotes</sgmltag>.</para>
  60. </listitem>
  61. </itemizedlist>
  62. </section>
  63. <section id="V340_fo">
  64. <title>FO</title>
  65. <itemizedlist>
  66. <listitem>
  67. <simpara>Added attribute-set to easily control appearance of
  68. footer</simpara>
  69. </listitem>
  70. <listitem>
  71. <simpara>Added support for
  72. <sgmltag>foil</sgmltag>/<sgmltag>subtitle</sgmltag></simpara>
  73. </listitem>
  74. <listitem>
  75. <simpara>Bookmarks in XEP can now contain i18n
  76. characters</simpara>
  77. </listitem>
  78. <listitem>
  79. <simpara>Changed attribute namespaces accordingly to new
  80. schema used for titlepage templates</simpara>
  81. </listitem>
  82. </itemizedlist>
  83. </section>
  84. <section id="V340_html">
  85. <title>HTML</title>
  86. <itemizedlist>
  87. <listitem>
  88. <simpara><sgmltag>xref</sgmltag> to <sgmltag>foil</sgmltag>
  89. and <sgmltag>foilgroup</sgmltag> is now supported. (You must
  90. have the DocBook XSL stylesheets v1.67.0 or greater to use
  91. xrefs.)</simpara>
  92. </listitem>
  93. <listitem>
  94. <simpara>Added new parameter
  95. <parameter>show.foil.number</parameter> which can enable
  96. numbering of slides. Currently works only with
  97. <filename>frames.xsl</filename> and
  98. <literal>multiframe=0</literal></simpara>
  99. </listitem>
  100. <listitem>
  101. <simpara>Added support for <literal><ulink
  102. url="http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/Chunking.html#dbhtmlDirPI"
  103. >dbhtml dir</ulink></literal> processing instruction</simpara>
  104. </listitem>
  105. </itemizedlist>
  106. </section>
  107. <section id="V340_htmlhelp">
  108. <title>HTML Help</title>
  109. <itemizedlist>
  110. <listitem>
  111. <simpara>Slides can now be generated in HTML Help format</simpara>
  112. </listitem>
  113. </itemizedlist>
  114. </section>
  115. <section>
  116. <title id="V340_install">Install</title>
  117. <itemizedlist>
  118. <listitem>
  119. <para>A new (and still experimental) <filename><ulink
  120. url="install.sh" >install.sh</ulink></filename> file has
  121. been added to the Slides distribution. For information on
  122. using it, see the <filename><ulink url="INSTALL"
  123. >INSTALL</ulink></filename> file.</para>
  124. </listitem>
  125. </itemizedlist>
  126. </section>
  127. </section>
  128. <section id="old">
  129. <title>Older releases</title>
  130. <para>Sorry, there are no release notes for releases prior to the
  131. 3.4.0 release.</para>
  132. </section>
  133. </article>