#---TABSTOP=4 ** Version 5.0793 (3sep2002) ** PDFLaTeX vs LaTeX I'm using PDFLaTeX (pdflatex) these days. This probably means nothing. However I noticed that pdflatex has support for jpeg images (as opposed to eps). So, I changed aft-refman.aft to use |aft.jpg| for the AFT image. This will not work under the original latex. But, is it worth a special pdflatex mode? ** Documentation updated Updated aft-refman.aft to document |#---SET| pragma and |#)| enumerated lists. *** Easier enumerated lists You can now use |#)| or |#.| to denote items in an enumerated list, since AFT will choose the numbers for you anyway. This means you should never expect to start ''quotes'' with |#)| or |#.| -- which would be weird anyway. *** Section headers Section headers are now processed with filters. In a nutshell, you can now do emphasis/italic/etc in section headers. Let the havoc begin. ** Version 5.0792 (27mar2002) *** New build distribution AlanE saved me from myself (see previous version). This should be good to go. ** Version 5.0791 (27mar2002) ''Never happened. It was just a dream. Go back to sleep.'' ** Version 5.079 (21mar2002) *** New build distribution Converted build to GNU automake/autoconf. - alane at geeksrus.net *** aft-rtf.dat Exec'ing postrtf.pl fails because it isn't in perl's search path, so we fake it out for now by prepending the contents of |@INC[0]| to the file name. |@INC[0]| should be the aft library directory. *** Trailing Spaces in section headers Trailing spaces in section header text are now trimmed. *** Verbatim Spaces to Tab Fixed bug in block verbatim mode (|^<<|), where spaces were being turned into tabs. ** Version 5.078 (22feb2002) *** TOC fixed Table of Contents (TOC) was generating references to the numbers in autonumbered sections, instead of the actual sections themselves. This has been fixed. How long was this broken? I need better regression testing! *** Output filename mangling bug fixed Output filenames created from input filenames with more than one |.| in it caused problems. I wasn't handling filename suffix replacement correctly. This has been fixed (e.g. processing |aft --type=html foo.bar.aft| will now correctly produce an output file named |foo.bar.html|. Thanks to willg at bluesock dot org for pointing that out. *** PASS-xxx Broken Yikes! Somewhere between releases the PASS pragma broke (it was being ignored). It has since been repaired. *** Block/Filtered Verbatim bug fixed A subtle processing ordering problem. If you were in Block Verbatim mode and the beginning of your line looked like an AFT command, that command was interpreted! We need to check for Block Verbatim mode before we check for other commands. This is fixed. Thanks to Greg Hurell at mac dot com for noticing this problem. ** Version 5.078b (12jan2002) *** SET pragma You can now set symbolic substitutions in *.dat files _and_ AFT documents. You get two flavors: [#---SET symbol=some text until newline] - Sets up a substitution to happen before preFiltering. [#---SET-{ID} symbol=some text until newline] - Sets up ID specific substitution to happen after filtering. The first flavor is useful for doing simple substitution of arbitrary text: (e.g. #--SET NAME=_Bob Baskin_ Hello, %NAME%. You may have just won... ) The second can be used to do more complex ''output type'' dependent substitutions: (e.g. #--SET-HTML NAME= 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.