[publican-list] Publican 2.7 is now available

[Ruediger Landmann]

Hi all;

Publican 2.7 is now available.

This release provides fixes for a relatively small number of bugs, and 
adds support for wkhmltopdf as an alternative to FOP as a PDF generation 
tool.

The most visible and important changes include:

* re-enabling the draft watermark that we lost in a recent release 
(BZ#727756)
* make Eclipse help plugins load properly (BZ#727739)
* fix problems connected with the way that book titles and product names 
were presented in website tables of contents (BZ#734290)
* allow version numbers to include letters; "6-Beta" is now a valid 
product version (BZ#729824)

As discussed in another thread, initial testing of wkhtmltopdf has 
proved extremely promising, and includes at least these benefits:

* much, much greater speed and better use of system resources -- the 
difference from FOP is nothing short of astounding!
* better support for languages written in scripts other than European 
alphabets
* support for languages written right-to-left
* greater visual congruity between the HTML and PDF versions of documents

If you run Publican 2.7 on a system where wkhtmltopdf is available, 
Publican will use it to create PDFs. If wkhtmltopdf is not available, 
Publican falls back to FOP. We'd really appreciate any feedback from 
people who use this feature.

Special thanks to Bec Newton, from Red Hat's Middleware documentation 
team, for her continued improvements to <set> usage in the Users' Guide, 
and for writing the Release Notes.

Cheers!

Rudi