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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> 
  </articleinfo> 
  <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 &lt;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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