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    <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> 

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  <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>

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