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<title>DocBook DSSSL Stylesheet Release Notes</title>
<pubdate>03 November 2004</pubdate>
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<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>
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<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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