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User-facing highlights

Area Since 0.7.5
NVDA addon Single universal addon with both 32- and 64-bit binaries; new logo with hi-DPI rendering, dark-mode contrast pill, and rules-engine version label; last tested on NVDA 2026.2
Languages New: Greek, French, Hungarian, Polish, Russian; improvements German, Norwegian, Swedish, Traditional Chinese; translated navigation rules; column/row separator announcements
Braille New: Russian, French braille; major UEB BANA/ICEB updates; Nemeth 2022-ish fixes; Nemeth ⋄ fix; unicode ranges; BrailleCode refactor
Content Augmented matrices; chemistry (atomic-number scoring, arc-like symbols); multi-line script positions; currency/mtext cleanup; SSML fix; uptack → “perpendicular”
Packaging Minified Rules-minimized.zip; unified Rust rules packaging for CI, include-zip, and releases
Quality Fuzzing; better errors; dual no-unsafe CI track; CI on all branches and PRs

Details

NVDA addon (MathCATForPython)

  • Single addon build — one .nvda-addon ships both libmathcat_py_x86.pyd and libmathcat_py_x64.pyd; a bitness-aware loader picks the correct binary at runtime (#108)
  • Preferences dialog — new MathCAT logo artwork; sharp hi-DPI rendering via BitmapBundle; light rounded pill behind the logo on dark backgrounds; MathCAT rules-engine version shown below the logo (#109)
  • Compatibility — addon_lastTestedNVDAVersion updated to 2026.2
  • CI / release workflow — automatic builds and pre-releases on all branches (not just main); per-branch release tags; consolidated build-addon job; l10n sync remains main-only and no longer blocks builds on feature/release branches

Languages & speech

  • Polish (pl) — new
  • French (fr) — new
  • Greek (el) — new
  • Hungarian (hu) — new
  • Russian (ru) — new; speech changes merged (#689)
  • Norwegian (nb) — speech + navigation enhancements; navigation zoom no longer says “in” for prefix/silent intents (e.g. “b” instead of “in b” for -b)
  • Swedish (sv) — translation update (#682); same navigation zoom fix as Norwegian
  • German (de) — digit rules, units, and other speech fixes; set grammar; unit plurals and definitions; absolute-value ending; integral/logical symbols; “ray” → “Strahl”; “ruthe” → “Rute”; inverse grammar fixes
  • Traditional Chinese (zh-tw) — navigation / related rule updates; translation refresh from English (2026-06-15 baseline, #618)
  • English — core concept names (#381); principal Log vs log; identity / augmented matrices; black circled Latin letters; circled-number support; unit-definition cleanups
  • Navigation rules — initial multi-language translation of navigation command names
  • Cross-language — column and row separator announcements in matrices/tables (#679); multi-line script positions (mtable or nested munder/mover) separated by commas; uptack (⊥) speaks as “perpendicular” (#330); non-terse square root speech restored (#668); lg recognized as ASCIIMath function; better speech for missing/parse-error characters
  • Intent — inference tweaks; richer definitions.yaml format with | alternatives; intents aligned to core concepts with tests

Braille

  • Russian — new
  • French braille — new braille code with rules, unicode tables, and chemistry tests (initial release; some open questions remain)
  • Nemeth — 2022-oriented updates (ellipses, multipurpose between scripts, currency, typeform prefs cleanup, bugfixes); fixed braille for ⋄ (diamond operator, #703)
  • UEB — updated to latest BANA/ICEB guidance:
    • Grade-1 indicator rules revised; new G1 BANA/GTM mode preference
    • Expanded grade-2 contractions; fixed be / con / dis contractions at word starts
    • mtable row-start and row-terminator handling for linear braille (some rules provisional, pending ICEB feedback)
    • New accented-letter patterns (e.g. Ñ) and Hebrew alphabet indicator
    • Narrowed overly broad pseudo-script rule (also cleaned up in other braille codes)
  • Unicode tables — collapse to ranges + range fixups
  • Refactor — BrailleCode trait + registry
  • Table-related braille/rules work
  • Remove incomplete ASCIIMath-fi packaging that broke builds

Canonicalization, chemistry, robustness

  • Chemistry — mmultiscripts/scripts merge, atomic-number scoring and lookup table, chem-element intent/heuristics, chem test fixes; prescripts matching atomic number boost chemistry detection; primes on chem symbols (e.g. R') no longer rejected
  • Arc-like symbols — merge under restricted conditions (#698); arc look-alike chars fixed after canonicalization change
  • Bad mmultiscripts / empty bases / data-split cleanup
  • Currency symbols split out of mtext / mi / mn; less aggressive ? fill-in
  • Empty <mi> / degree edge cases; mtext-as-number → mn where appropriate
  • Stronger panic/error reporting (tests + containers)
  • SSML — stopped incorrectly escaping SSML (#585)

Internals

  • Rust edition 2024; lazy_static → LazyLock; API cleanups (AsRef<str>, etc.)
  • anyhow instead of error-chain
  • Optional no-unsafe via sxd-document-no-unsafe / sxd-xpath-no-unsafe (default = classic mode)
  • Rules packaging — unified Rust package-rules for CI, include-zip, and release zips; Rules-minimized.zip (flow-style YAML) for smaller downloads
  • CI — build/test/clippy for default and no-unsafe; fuzz both configs; CI on all branches and PRs; Python tooling CI; coverage; pre-release fixes
  • cargo-fuzz harness, dictionary, corpus cache, regression helpers
  • audit-translations and related Python/uv tooling; new --exclude option with tests
  • Parallel tests — serialized rules unzip/YAML reads to avoid races

Docs

  • README / product-page copy; AT notes (JAWS, Orca, Kurzweil, etc.)
  • User guides / translators’ guide work; example HTML for translator testing
  • New logo with hi-DPI rendering, dark-mode contrast pill on many pages.
  • User guide and translator’s guide revisions; updated acknowledgements; MathCAGT demo link in developer docs
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