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+<?xml version='1.0' encoding="utf-8"?>
+<!DOCTYPE article SYSTEM "http://docbook.org/xml/4.4/docbookx.dtd">
+<article>
+ <articleinfo>
+ <title>DocBook Slides Release Notes</title>
+ <pubdate><?dbtimestamp format="Y-m-d"?></pubdate>
+ <releaseinfo role="cvs">$Id: RELEASE-NOTES.xml 9639 2012-10-22 18:41:00Z stefan $</releaseinfo>
+ <corpauthor>DocBook Project Development Team</corpauthor>
+ </articleinfo>
+ <para>These are the release notes for the DocBook Slides
+ distribution. This file provides a high-level overview of features
+ and API changes in each release.</para>
+
+ <para>Bug fixes are (mostly) not documented here. For a complete
+ list of changes, including descriptions of bug fixes, see the <ulink
+ url="NEWS"/> file, which is auto-generated from the commit
+ descriptions for changes in the project CVS repository.</para>
+
+ <section>
+ <title>Release 3.4.0</title>
+ <para>This is a feature release that includes some significant
+ schema changes as well as fixes for a few bugs. The feature
+ changes include newly added support for generating presentations
+ in HTML Help format. There are also experimental versions of
+ stylesheets for generating presentations in Keynote and SVG
+ formats. It also includes a new (and still experimental)
+ <filename><ulink url="install.sh" >install.sh</ulink></filename>
+ script to facilitate XML catalog and locating-rules setup.</para>
+ <section id="V340_schema">
+ <title>Schemas</title>
+ <itemizedlist>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Slides (non-full) is now based on <ulink
+ url="http://docbook.org/xml/simple/1.1/index.html" >Simplified
+ DocBook 1.1</ulink> and Slides "full" is now based on <ulink
+ url="http://docbook.org/xml/4.4/index.html" >DocBook
+ 4.4</ulink>. The main benefit this provides is the ability to
+ use HTML tables in your Slides XML source (instead of just CALS
+ tables).</para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>RELAX NG schemas in RNC (compact-syntax) form as well as
+ in RNG (XML syntax) form are now included in the
+ distribution. You can use those to do context-sensitive
+ Slides editing in a RELAX NG-aware editor such as Emacs/nXML,
+ oXygen XML Editor, XMLBuddy, or Exchanger XML Editor. (Note
+ that the RELAX NG schemas are currently generated from the
+ DTDs).</para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>A <filename><ulink url="locatingrules.xml"
+ >locatingrules.xml</ulink> </filename> file has been added
+ to the distribution. The
+ <filename><ulink url="locatingrules.xml"
+ >locatingrules.xml</ulink></filename> file tells a
+ "locating rules"-aware editor such as Emacs/nXML to
+ automatically associate the included RELAX NG Slides schema
+ with any document whose root element is
+ <sgmltag>slides</sgmltag>, <sgmltag>foil</sgmltag>,
+ <sgmltag>foilgroup</sgmltag>, or
+ <sgmltag>speakernotes</sgmltag>.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </itemizedlist>
+ </section>
+ <section id="V340_fo">
+ <title>FO</title>
+ <itemizedlist>
+ <listitem>
+ <simpara>Added attribute-set to easily control appearance of
+ footer</simpara>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <simpara>Added support for
+ <sgmltag>foil</sgmltag>/<sgmltag>subtitle</sgmltag></simpara>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <simpara>Bookmarks in XEP can now contain i18n
+ characters</simpara>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <simpara>Changed attribute namespaces accordingly to new
+ schema used for titlepage templates</simpara>
+ </listitem>
+ </itemizedlist>
+ </section>
+ <section id="V340_html">
+ <title>HTML</title>
+ <itemizedlist>
+ <listitem>
+ <simpara><sgmltag>xref</sgmltag> to <sgmltag>foil</sgmltag>
+ and <sgmltag>foilgroup</sgmltag> is now supported. (You must
+ have the DocBook XSL stylesheets v1.67.0 or greater to use
+ xrefs.)</simpara>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <simpara>Added new parameter
+ <parameter>show.foil.number</parameter> which can enable
+ numbering of slides. Currently works only with
+ <filename>frames.xsl</filename> and
+ <literal>multiframe=0</literal></simpara>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <simpara>Added support for <literal><ulink
+ url="http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/Chunking.html#dbhtmlDirPI"
+ >dbhtml dir</ulink></literal> processing instruction</simpara>
+ </listitem>
+ </itemizedlist>
+ </section>
+ <section id="V340_htmlhelp">
+ <title>HTML Help</title>
+ <itemizedlist>
+ <listitem>
+ <simpara>Slides can now be generated in HTML Help format</simpara>
+ </listitem>
+ </itemizedlist>
+ </section>
+ <section>
+ <title id="V340_install">Install</title>
+ <itemizedlist>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>A new (and still experimental) <filename><ulink
+ url="install.sh" >install.sh</ulink></filename> file has
+ been added to the Slides distribution. For information on
+ using it, see the <filename><ulink url="INSTALL"
+ >INSTALL</ulink></filename> file.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </itemizedlist>
+ </section>
+ </section>
+ <section id="old">
+ <title>Older releases</title>
+ <para>Sorry, there are no release notes for releases prior to the
+ 3.4.0 release.</para>
+ </section>
+</article>