<itemizedlist>

<listitem><para>Better unicode support. Now the XML output is encoded in UTF-8,

and Python uses the codecs to decode to ISO-Latin1 and replace the unsupported

characters to some latex equivalent.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>Several XSLT processors can be used. The first port is for

<ulink url="http://4suite.org">4suite</ulink> because it is fully written in

Python and is quite a good tool. The processors are loaded as plugins, so that

it can be easily extended to any other XSLT processor.</para>

<para>The processor to use is specified from the command line with the

<option>-m <replaceable>xslt</replaceable></option> option, where

<replaceable>xslt</replaceable> is the name of the plugin to load (actually the

name of the dynamically loaded Python module).</para>

</listitem>

<listitem><para>The XSL code is more conformant. It has been checked by using the

<ulink url="http://4suite.org">4suite</ulink> XSLT processor as an alternative

to <command>xsltproc</command>.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>Possibility to have some configuration files stored under

<filename>$HOME/.dblatex</filename> or under <filename>/etc/dblatex</filename>

for system-wide configurations. Some extra paths can be specified by using the

<envar>DBLATEX_CONFIG_FILES</envar> environment variable.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>The <sgmltag>remark</sgmltag>s and <sgmltag>comment</sgmltag>s

are rendered as PDF text annotations when <application>pdflatex</application> is

used. Otherwise, the comments are suppressed.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>Some other minor improvements:

<itemizedlist>

<listitem><para>The parameters <parameter>pdf.annot.options</parameter>,

<parameter>latex.class.book</parameter>, and

<parameter>latex.class.article</parameter> are added.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>An hexadecimal color like

<literal>]]></literal> is supported, and

a named color like <literal>]]></literal> is

supported too (in the previous release named colors had to

be enclosed in curly braces "{}").</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>Some cleaner locale handling is provided, and new latex commands

are given to allow the user to customize the babel setup.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>The cross-references now use <function>key()</function>

instead of <function>id()</function>. It prevents from some bugs and makes

writing a document easier, especially in modular parts.</para></listitem>

</itemizedlist>

</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>Some bug fixes.</para></listitem>

</itemizedlist>