[publican-list] Publican 4.0 released!!! Get it now!!!!

[Misty Stanley-Jones]

Congratulations to the Publican team! And what an amazing set of new features and improvements. :)

On Dec 18, 2013, at 10:58 AM, Zac Dover <zdover at redhat.com> wrote:

> We are happy to announce the release of Publican 4.0!
> 
> The highest-priority fixes and enhancements in this release add the ability of Publican to use DocBook 5 as an input format, add improvements to the presentation of Publican-driven websites, and improve your control over and navigation of your Publican-generated documents.
> 
> Docbook 5 is now supported as an input format, and Docbook 5-compatible templates are now included in Publican. You can start using DocBook 5 for your new book projects straight away, and there's no more need to downconvert docs when collaborating with other projects!
> 
> Publican 4 includes numerous improvements to presentation and enhancements to navigation. It is now possible to organize books by category: this is an improvement upon the previous organization mechanism, which permitted sorting only by alphabetical order. Navigation for documents without multi-page HTML format has been added, so if all you've got is a PDF, you can ship just that in a Publican-driven website. Finally, translators can now control the sort order of glossary entries in their languages, so there's no need to avoid glossaries any more!
> 
> A large number of presentation issues have been improved in Publican 4. The subtitle element now takes its size from the preceding title. Publican 4 now includes support for SVG graphics in Internet Explorer 8 and up. Improvements to PDF processing ensure that Indic language PDFs now build correctly. <imageobject>, <textobject>, <package>, <example>, and <option> XML tags are now rendered properly. The presentation of CSS styles in EPUB format has been improved: this improves the presentation of admonitions, <screen> tags, <programlisting>s, and removes the web footer tag from EPUB output. OPF manifests and internal identifiers have also been improved in EPUB output.
> 
> Several improvements have been made for translators and consumers of translated content. In addition to the glossary issue already mentioned, a new feature provides a notification when a translation is older than the document in the source language.
> 
> Thanks to everyone involved in Publican 4.0 testing and documentation!
> 
> For a more complete list of features, see the Publican 4.0 Release Notes available shortly from:
> http://jfearn.fedorapeople.org/en-US/Publican/index.html
> 
> The Publican source is available from:
> 
> https://fedorahosted.org/releases/p/u/publican/publican-4.0.0-0.fc19.src.rpm (SRPM)
> https://fedorahosted.org/releases/p/u/publican/Publican-v4.0.0.tar.gz (tarball)
> 
> We expect to ship Publican 4.0.0 in Fedora by the end of the month.
> 
> Zac Dover
> Team Publican
> 
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