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=========================== Release Notes, MathBook XML

0.03, 2016/04/23

''''''' Summary '''''''

  • Stable release, many new features
  • LaTeX, HTML conversions stable
  • Preliminary conversions to EPUB, Sage Notebook, SageMathCloud, Jupyter Notebooks
  • DTD (Document Type Definition)
  • More examples (sample book)
  • Author's Guide (documentation)
  • WeBWorK homework problems

''''''' Changes '''''''

  • Improvements to front matter, back matter
  • Initial support for poetry
  • Improved chunking for all formats
  • Localizations for Portugese, French
  • More flexible cross-references
  • Improvements to mbx script
  • Letter and memo document types
  • Improved program, console, verbatim text
  • Index support for HTML
  • Deprecated: html.chunk.level stringparam is now just chunk.level
  • Deprecated: ordered lists can no longer have empty levels
  • Deprecated: autonam'ed cross-references no longer have a plural form

0.02, 2015/03/18

''''''' Summary '''''''

  • Stable release, many new features, all anticipated deprecations in place
  • Basic or preliminary support for most common document components
  • LaTeX, HTML conversions stable
  • Preliminary conversions to Sage Notebook and SageMathCloud

''''''' Changes '''''''

  • Variable level chunking for HTML output
  • Improved numbering scheme, with defaults and customization
  • <exercises> sections at any level
  • <references> sections at any level
  • New Sage cells: display only, straight copy of other cells, practice
  • Basic index functionality for LaTeX output
  • Automatic names in cross-references (optionally)
  • Program listings for a variety of languages
  • Asymptote, Sage graphics support
  • General LaTeX image code support (tikz, pgfplots, etc.)
  • Basic support for Unicode characters
  • <conclusion>, just like <introduction>
  • Improved author tools
  • Improved Sage doctest creation
  • New front matter sections
  • New exercise groups
  • Localization: Brazilian Portugese
  • Localization: Spanish Spanish
  • Reference autonaming, with localizations
  • Sage worksheet creation, via XSL and Python script
  • SageMathCloud worksheet creation, via pure XSL
  • Greatly revamped HTML output for better navigation
  • Preliminary support for Unicode characters
  • Added contrib directory for user examples
  • Notation lists in back matter
  • Solutions in back matter
  • Greatly improved nested lists
  • Slanted fraction support
  • Images can have descriptions for HTML alt text
  • Side-by-side objects, horizontal layouts
  • SI units formatting support in text
  • User-supplied CSS enabled
  • <algorithm> element, like <theorem>
  • Tables reimagined, old style no longer supported
  • Deprecated: filebase attribute replaced by xml:id
  • Deprecated: <cite>, just use <xref> instead
  • Deprecated: <tikz>, use <latex-image-code>
  • Deprecated: <paragraph>, use <paragraphs> instead
  • Deprecated: <tbody>, <entry>, etc, use <tabular>, <cell>, etc

0.01, 2014/04/30

''''''' Summary '''''''

  • Stable release, but incomplete and subject to change