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IXIN 1.4 available
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Thien-Thi Nguyen |
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IXIN 1.4 available |
Date: |
Sat, 22 Dec 2012 19:28:10 +0100 |
release notes:
Big news is the spec moved from README to spec/ixin.texi (w/ logo!);
please consider sending suggested changes as a diff against that.
thi
README excerpts:
IXIN is an EXPERIMENTAL distribution of EXPERIMENTAL code and
some pre-built IXIN files. IXIN stands for "indexed texinfo".
All code is under GPLv3+. All (.xml) docs are under GFDL.
[...]
It defines a documentation file format and provides two simple
tools to write and read, respectively, files in that format.
NEWS excerpt:
- 1.4 | 2012-12-22
- retrieve reads ‘coding’, as well
Previously, this was ignored. Now it is read and displayed
(but otherwise still ignored, thereafter :-D).
- specification moved from README into its own document
Sometimes it's impossible to resist the urge to bloviate...
Relatedly, you can "make check" there, too. See subdir spec/.
Probably, over time, more of README will follow.
The spec document includes a new section "Terminology", not in
the original README, for general terms. It also doesn't mention
anymore the "input SXML", as mkixin design/implementation has
nothing to do w/ the file format proper. On the other hand,
"vetting gaps" (where mkixin is lacking) are now footnoted.
- META ‘xid’ includes LANG
Derived from address@hidden, this is either a symbol, such
as ‘en’ or a list of two symbols, such as ‘(en US)’, which also
happens to be the default value if unspecified.
- automagic processing specified for three old-style txi* vars
These address@hidden/@clear VAR’ are converted to address@hidden
on/off’:
txicodequoteundirected codequoteundirected
txicodequotebacktick codequotebacktick
txideftypefnnl deftypefnnewline
For example, see d/serveez.ixin META.
- new table in SETTINGS
This used to be README "groupings", refined a bit. The group
designation is now called the "context", one of ‘O’ or ‘A’.
There are new entries: ‘everyheading’, ‘everyfooting’.
- META ‘titlepage’ now uses SXML ‘insertcopying’
Previously, the "link" was the string "@insertcopying".
Now, it is the SXML ‘(insertcopying (@))’.
- META last element now TOC
This used to be the "remaining SXML after ‘titlepage’". Now it
is a list of symbols in the set: ‘contents’, ‘shortcontents’,
‘summarycontents’.
- out w/ "two-letter indices", in w/ "document-term sets"
This de-emphasizes the two-letter nature, and bumps out the word
"index" (already very heavily used), to reduce confusion. As a
bonus, the string length of both old and new terms and their
acronyms remain the same (18 and 3, respectively) -- woo hoo!
- DTS "default font" and "inverse default font" specifiable
Each (non-empty) DTS now has an initial form that includes
"default font" (a symbol, ‘r’ or ‘code’). An entry now may
specify "inverse default font" with the symbol ‘-’ (hyphen)
in its first position.
Concurrently, DTS-INDEX now omits DTS-COUNT, as that has moved
into the DTS initial form.
- new specification / support for "float sets"
The new "floset" (‘float’ and ‘listoffloat’) handling is
analogous to that of "dts" (‘indexterm’ and ‘printindex’).
- TWEAKS specified for NODE-INDEX elements
The form is now: (NAME LENGTH NEXT PREV UP [TWEAKS]),
where TWEAKS is a list of (NAME VALUE), like SETTINGS.
- S-TREE moved forward, immediately after NODE-INDEX
We want to move the optional portions (DTS) later, such that
future addition of new portions can be more uniform (via "tail
stretching"). This is a design-aesthetic, upward-compatability,
hand-wavy, out-of-our-gourd reason, admittedly...
Also, this block is now called the "sectioning tree".
- new specification / support for "image inlining"
The specification allows for any detectable image type, using
MIME ‘image/TYPE’. The tools support, however, is limited to
mkixin guessing ‘image/png’ or ‘image/jpeg’, based on file
extension. Since the data is inlined into node data, retrieve
does nothing special w/ it.
- doc d/prob.xml includes combining chars and cyrillic
Hmmm, is it valid XML to use combining chars when there are
alternatives? (See comment in doc.)
tarball, etc, in dir:
http://www.gnuvola.org/software/ixin/
atom feed:
http://www.gnuvola.org/NEWS.atom
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