Sincerely yours, %NAME%.
)
You can also use "SET" (without the preceding #--) in *.dat files to provide
default values.
*** aft-html.dat/AFT.pm
Anchor (target) name for sections was the section number. This isn't intuitive
(at least not for me), so it has been changed back to the section text. This way, references to sections are once again just the section name (sans number).
** Version 5.077 (29dec2001)
*** RTF
Eva Maria Krause (Eva.Maria.Krause at muenster.de) added RTF support.
I modified aft to allow it to invoke post processing scripts to make Eva's
changes easier to use...
There are still some rough areas, but it is a good start!
*** Installer Improvements
A little easier... no?
*** Minor bug?
I am not sure if this got released, but the "interpolate" keyword in *.dat
files was being misinterpreted. It works now :-)
*** Tables under Windoze
A end-of-line pattern match '$' fails under cygwin/perl5.6/win2k. This is
troublesome for the superfluous !---------! seperator. We now match on
'$' or '\r'...
*** aft-html.dat change
Dummy links were provided for sections. This got annoying (at least for me),
so the sections are back to the way they were.
** Version 5.076a (21jun2001)
*** Compile.pl prefilters
preFilter can now be used to ''remove'' patterns as well as replace them.
For example:
preFilter XXXXX
will remove every occurrence of |XXXXX|.
*** Improved URL handling
Once again, Chris Bidmead caught a little niggling bug. The URL parser didn't
handle dashes ('-') in hostnames. This has been fixed.
*** --autonumber
Richard Tietjen (rdtiejen at pobox.com) contributed the new --autonumber
feature. With this switch AFT will automatically provide numbering for
sections. This is mostly for HTML output.
*** Fixed doublequote handling in aft-tex.dat.
** Version 5.072b (23apr2001)
*** Lout Support
Added support for the typesetting language ''lout''. Thanks Abel!
*** Improved Regular Expressions
Slight improvements to make some expressions less greedy. Improvements by Abel Morabito.
** Version 5.072a (14mar2001)
Added more explicit support for ''sectioning''. This gives much finer control
over how sections entry/exit are noted. See aft-lout.dat for examples.
*** Compile.pl
* Allow passing comments inside of preamble and postamble.
Since the preamble and postamble is copied *verbatim*,
inner comments shouldn't be stripped.
* Use qq' ' for quoting commands. This lets the crafter of the
aft-*.dat do things like add |\n| and other control sequences
to their output. i.e.
* StartParagraph \n\n
** Version 5.07a (17feb2001)
*** Cleanup
Continued refactoring and clean up of code. One day, I will be pretty!
*** CGI
Preliminary support for doing AFT through the web.
*** Sections
Fixed the nesting/un-nesting of sections. This was done so I could begin to
add support for lout. Lout expects subsections to be sandwiched between
'BeginSubSection' and 'EndSubSection'. Also added new keywords of the same
name.
** Version 5.06 (19dec2000)
*** General Note
I need to make comprehensive test suite... Hopefully, soon. For the time being,
aft-refman.aft and trip.aft will do.
*** XHTML
Added a new XHTML element file (aft-xhtml.dat). It should produce well formed
XHTML. Consider it beta for now (I need to get a validating parser installed).
*** AFT.pm
**** A Very Bad List Bug!
If you do ''very'' nested and convoluted things with lists, it will not
work properly. Here is a failure case:
* Bullet
1. Number 1
2. Number 2
This will produce two numbered lists... don't ask why... the problem
turned out to be rather stupid on my part. I forgot that |push| adds
values to the ''end'' of an array. I looked at |listStack[0]| as the
top of the array (stack), but I really wanted |$listStack[$#listStack]|.
This bug has been around for quite some time now. But, it only rears it's
ugly head when you nest lists of differing types.
**** Comment Bug
|| isn't valid XHTML? I started with:
|| and aft kind of munged it. Anyway, it has now been
fixed to produce: ||.
**** Subtle end list element bug
If a list is the very last thing in your document, the last list element
isn't terminated properly (the nesting unrolls without terminating the
list). Adding a &endListElement() just before unrolling fixes the problem.
*** Element File Compiler
**** Reuse
In Version 5.05b changelog, did I say ''inherit''? I meant ''use''...
# A new keyword has been introduced: ''use''. This allows a sort of
compile time inheritance. If you want to utilize some of the features
from an element file, just 'use' it (''use aft-xzy.dat''). This
way you don't have to copy end edit to introduce your own modifications.
Also, it was broken... Rather than override preambles and postambles,
compile.pl appended to them :( Now, it's okay :)
** Version 5.05b (21jul2000)
*** New Installation Stuff
Rewrote installer. Everything now expects to install under a single 'aft'
directory rather than all over the place.
*** AFT.pm
AFT turned into a Module.... the first step to CPAN? It's cleaner too
(better modularity and finer grain control).
With this change, aft.pl now justs invokes the module.
*** Element File Overhaul
**** Spaces Allowed!
You don't have to litter the file with tabs, fields can now be delimited by
spaces... will this hold up?
**** Reuse
A new keyword has been introduced: ''inherit''. This allows a sort of
compile time inheritance. If you want to utilize some of the features
from an element file, just 'inherit' it (''inherit aft-xzy.dat''). This
way you don't have to copy end edit to introduce your own modifications.
**** Name Change
aft-xyz.dat turns into aft-xyz.pm (dropping the 'dac' extension). They are proper
modules, so why not recognize that?
**** New compile.pl
Rewrote it. Much cleaner now. Oooh.
** Version 5.05a (3apr2000)
*** Plain Old URL Targets
... just got plainer. A simpler regex is now being used. If you need to get
real funky with your URLs, don't use this feature! I simplified the regex. The
older (fuller) one was full of bugs.
*** Ftp is now supported in Plain Old URL Targets
Very simple change. Why didn't I do it before?
** Version 5.04 (9mar2000)
*** Installation bug corrected
Fixed a bug in compile.pl that causes filenames like /tmp/bin/../lib/foo.dat
to be parsed incorrectly (resulting in a bad output file name).
*** Added LaTeX output support
Very, very preliminary and incomplete. Just for experimenting (right now).
** Version 5.03 (5jan2000)
*** Improved (hopefully?) the installer
The prompts pick better default directory paths... but will this work under
Windows?
*** Minor aft-html.dat improvement
Centered lines are delimited by
. This causes double spacing between
centered lines. This can be annoyong, so the
has been removed.
** Version 5.02b (8oct99)
*** Multiline face changes
Chris Bidmead (bidmead at cbidmead.demon.co.uk) identified a bug with
multi-line face changes (bold, italics, etc)
where you can't do single line face changes. This has been fixed.
You should be able to do stuff like:
''This is an
italic paragraph with _bold_ face changes.''
''This is an
italic paragraph with _bold_ face changes.''
*** Plain Old Hyperlinks
Chris Bidmead (bidmead at cbidmead.demon.co.uk) identified a bug with Plain Old
Hyperlinks: They don't work
if they occur at the beginning of the line. Here is the offending code:
$line =~ s/([\s\(])((http|https|file|ftp|mailto)\:[^\s\)]+)/
I have intended to rewrite the http[s]|file parsing to be more rigorous, so
this prompted me to do so. Now all Plain Old Hyperlinks must be delimited
by spaces. See the code for the changes.
** 5.01b 3aug99
Plain Old Hyperlinks were broken and have now been fixed?
** 5.0b 2aug99
The beta release has a couple of fixes:
* aft-html.dat : Table is no longer centered by default.
* install.pl : Fixed the Window install.
And a new feature:
* $HOME is searched first for the rule file; then the installation
directory.
** 5.0a 22jun99
This is the alpha release of the ''next generation AFT''. A lot has happened
since 4.6. The world has changed. Here is what has happened:
* This implementation is ''not'' written in Aftweb. It is a cleaned
up version of the same Perl 5 sources that made 4.6.
* LaTeX support has been dropped. XML and HTML4 support has become
the main focus (you can generate LaTeX from XML/HTML anyway).
* Reliance on C++ has been dropped. aft-toc has been rewritten
in perl and folded into aft.pl.
* Some rarely used commands have been improved (changed) to make
them more usable. Details will follow.