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Wed Dec 18 09:41:16 CET 2002 (Manuel Serrano):

	*** The Scribe web site now exposes its sources.

	
Wed Dec 11 17:11:24 CET 2002 (Manuel Serrano):

	*** Fix various problems in the ascii back-ends.

	*** Slightly improve the letter style.

	
Wed Dec  4 15:51:51 CET 2002 (Manuel Serrano):
	
	*** Fix a bug in the TeX back-end, the character ç and Ç were not
	correctly handled.

	*** Improved the compilation of table-of-contents in HTML mode.

	
Tue Dec  3 11:20:33 CET 2002 (Manuel Serrano):

	*** The management of references to sections has been improved.
	It is now possible to make a reference to a section (respec. chapter,
	subsection, ...) that is complex (i.e. that is not a plain string).
	
	
Thu Nov 28 11:38:51 CET 2002 (Manuel Serrano):

	*** TEXT? and TEXT-BODY have been added to the expert library.

	
Wed Nov 27 11:41:24 CET 2002 (Manuel Serrano):

	*** French mode style.

	
Thu Nov 14 16:46:51 CET 2002 (Manuel Serrano):

	*** Better support for TOC in HTML mode.

	
Thu Nov 14 14:46:14 CET 2002 (Francois-Rene Rideau):

	*** Addition of new markups in stdscribe style.

	
Thu Nov 14 14:15:39 CET 2002 (Manuel Serrano):

	*** Fix HTML production. Some tags nesting was not correctly
	handled.

	
Wed Nov 13 12:26:33 CET 2002 (Manuel Serrano):

	*** Add the </a> after a <a name=...> in the HTML code generation.

	
Thu Nov  7 10:17:46 CET 2002 (Manuel Serrano):

	*** Improved the document for index (that used to be quite confusing).

	*** Fix the TeX back-end for index.


Wed Nov  6 09:19:39 CET 2002 (Manuel Serrano):

	*** HTML document title management improved.

	
Tue Oct 22 11:23:06 CEST 2002 (Manuel Serrano):

	*** Fix a bug in the TeX generation of tables.

	*** New animation facilities (%record, %play) in the slide style.

	
Mon Oct 21 10:03:45 CEST 2002 (Manuel Serrano):

	*** The author markup now accepts a supplemental parameter: title.
	(see the documentation).
	
	*** Title parameter of documents is now optional. It defaults to an
	empty string.

	*** The standard distribution now contains a package for typesetting
	letters.

	
Wed Oct 16 12:06:17 CEST 2002 (Manuel Serrano):

	*** TeX back-end: programs can now be embedded inside tables.

	
Thu Oct 10 15:46:31 CEST 2002 (Manuel Serrano):

	*** Fix zip distribution (the file makefile.scrconfig was missing).

	
Mon Sep 23 16:25:17 CEST 2002 (Manuel Serrano):

	*** PRGM markup now accepts a new optional parameter: COLORS. This
	specifies an Alist used to choose the color of specific tokens
	of the program (e.g., comments, strings, declarations, ...).

	
Thu Sep 19 11:13:17 CEST 2002 (Manuel Serrano):

	*** New slide example.

	*** Fix various errors and missing files in the examples.

	
Thu Sep 19 09:04:41 CEST 2002 (Manuel Serrano):

	*** TeX back-end: fix a bug in frame compilation.

	
Wed Sep 18 16:41:16 CEST 2002 (Manuel Serrano):

	*** Fix an error in HTML image conversions. The precedence rule
	for selecting the image format was incorrect.

	
Wed Sep 18 14:04:50 CEST 2002 (John Gerard Malecki):

	*** Fix a missing -ldopt option in the configuration script.

	
Tue Sep 17 09:45:33 CEST 2002 (Manuel Serrano):

	*** Various enhancements of the slide style.

	*** Addition of DOCUMENT-HOOK, CONTAINER-HOOK, and NODE-HOOK
	the standard API.
	
	
Mon Sep 16 09:48:46 CEST 2002 (Manuel Serrano):
	
	********* Distribution of the release 1.1a
        ------------------------------------------

	
Mon Sep 16 09:48:19 CEST 2002 (Manuel Serrano):

	*** Installation of the cgi library.

	*** The heap files of the various Scribe libraries are now
	installed. This makes Scribe libraries usable within Bigloo
	programs (see the CGI example).

	
Fri Sep 13 13:46:56 CEST 2002 (Manuel Serrano):
	
	********* Distribution of the release 1.0e
        ------------------------------------------

	
Fri Sep 13 13:39:36 CEST 2002 (Manuel Serrano):

	*** Fixes three bugs in the scribetex back-end:
	  - dimensions in table data (TD markup) were not correctly
	    handled.
	  - the character | was not correctly processes (as #\< and #\> are).
          - the symbols =>, ==>, and <= were not correctly expanded.
	
	
Thu Sep 12 11:29:51 CEST 2002 (Manuel Serrano):
	
	********* Distribution of the release 1.0d
        ------------------------------------------

	
Wed Sep 11 19:20:44 CEST 2002 (Manuel Serrano):

	*** Fix -L, -I, and -J precedence problems.

	*** Improve the verbose mode when loading style files.
	
	
Wed Sep 11 15:46:31 CEST 2002 (Manuel Serrano):

	*** The style file MATH has been removed because now the STDSCRIBE
	style file contains a SYMBOL function that supersedes the
	GREEK and MATH former functions (see the package documentation).

	
Wed Sep  4 10:45:38 CEST 2002 (Manuel Serrano):

	*** COLOR and FRAME markups are now documented.

	
Tue Sep  3 10:47:54 CEST 2002 (Manuel Serrano):

	*** Addition of the C++ abbreviation in abbrev.scr style file.

	
Mon Sep  2 17:33:52 CEST 2002 (Manuel Serrano):

	*** Fix two bugs in the TeX back-end. The first one concerns
	{ and } characters that were not correctly compiled. The second one
	concerns the documentclass that was not correct handled when 
	no LaTeX document style file was specified.

	
Fri Aug 30 06:24:29 CEST 2002 (Manuel Serrano):

	*** Fix some errors in *section title handling in the HTML back-end.
	Scribe commands inside titles where not correctly handled in the
	table of contents.

	*** SUI references are now better handled. In particular, the TeX
	back-end as a nicer support for external reference.

	*** Much better support of indexes in the TeX back-end.

	
Fri Aug 30 05:59:53 CEST 2002 (Todd Dukes):

	*** Fix a Scheme programming bug in the web-book style.

	
Sat Aug 24 15:43:02 CEST 2002 (Manuel Serrano):

	*** TeX and HTML back-ends tunings.

	
Wed Aug  7 13:43:50 CEST 2002 (Manuel Serrano):

	*** Fix installation problems. 

	*** Link apache scribe_mode.so against the libc.

	
Tue Aug  6 09:17:01 CEST 2002 (Manuel Serrano):

	*** Fix a bug in the user documentation (on PRINT-BIBLIOGRAPHY).

	
Tue Jul 23 06:16:14 CEST 2002 (Manuel Serrano):

	*** Bibliographic references now support multiple references such
	as [1,2,3]. See the user manual and the bib+ keyword.
	
	
Fri Jun 28 15:58:26 CEST 2002 (Manuel Serrano):

	*** Fix scribetex backend that was not correctly handling Latin i
	punctuation.

	
Mon Jun 17 20:18:22 CEST 2002 (Manuel Serrano):

	*** Add a missing check when opening the Bibtex input file. The
	missing check was causing a bus error when an error occurred.

	
Mon Jun 10 09:34:14 CEST 2002 (Manuel Serrano):

	*** Fix some ascii generation. In particular, Slides can now be 
	visualized in ascii.
	
	
Tue Jun  4 05:57:45 CEST 2002 (Manuel Serrano):

	*** Fix font size handling in TeX mode. Font sizes are now cumulative.
	That is (font :size -1 (font :size -1 ...)) is now equivalent to
	(font :size -2 ...).

	
Thu May 30 09:21:52 CEST 2002 (Manuel Serrano):
	
	********* Distribution of the release 1.0b
        ------------------------------------------

	
Thu May 30 09:21:52 CEST 2002 (Manuel Serrano):

	*** Fix a bug in the program line numberer.

	
Mon May 27 09:50:42 CEST 2002 (Manuel Serrano):

	*** Added the new `sf' ornament for sans-serif fonts.

	
Wed May 22 16:27:54 CEST 2002 (Manuel Serrano):

	*** Fix SUBSECTION and SUBSUBSECTION that were missing the
	:toc option.

	*** Add the Misc bibentry kind.

	*** Enable user sort customization when printing bibliography.

	*** Add a book-as-article style for TeX.

	
Thu May 16 09:35:27 CEST 2002 (Manuel Serrano):

	*** Fix an error that prevented the characters < and > to be 
	correctly display in PRGM environments.

	
Thu May  2 10:16:46 CEST 2002 (Manuel Serrano):

	*** Support for characters ô, ö, « and ». 

	*** Standard Scribe library has been augmented with the FG and BG
	functions.
	
	*** The ROMAN ornament has been added.

	*** %PRE TeX back-end fix which now uses the LaTeX alltt environment.
	
	*** Internal changes in the representation of ornaments (there is now
	only one class).

	
Thu Apr 25 09:52:20 CEST 2002 (Manuel Serrano):
	
	********* Distribution of the release 1.0a
        ------------------------------------------

	
Fri Apr  5 12:31:16 CEST 2002 (Manuel Serrano):

	*** Scribe emacs mode now supports electric closing parenthesis and
	bracket.

	
Thu Apr  4 10:10:22 CEST 2002 (Manuel Serrano):

	*** Image handling has changed. See the user and expert documentations.

	
Wed Apr  3 13:42:43 CEST 2002 (Manuel Serrano):

	*** Fix a bug in LaTeX chapter. Unnumbering was not correctly
	handled.

	*** Web style introduce a footer mentioning Scribe only for HTML
	targets.

	
Fri Mar 29 09:15:30 CET 2002 (Manuel Serrano):

	*** Fix a bug in PRGM form. When the body of a PRGM call was
	a Scribe node no text was produced.
	
	
Thu Mar 28 09:59:15 CET 2002 (Manuel Serrano):

	*** HTML back-end now support Small caps.

	
Wed Mar 27 12:07:29 CET 2002 (Manuel Serrano):

	*** Fix installation problems.

	*** Fix erroneous table TeX expansion.

	
Fri Mar 22 08:18:21 CET 2002 (Manuel Serrano):

	*** Fix some errors in the TeX back-end. Figures dimensions where
	incorrectly handled and author rendering was containing an extra \\
	on a blank line.
	
	
Wed Mar 13 17:18:50 CET 2002 (Manuel Serrano):

	*** Fix configuration problems.

	*** Fix user error checking.

	
Fri Mar  8 17:25:52 CET 2002 (Manuel Serrano):

	********* Distribution of the release 0.9
        -----------------------------------------

	
Mon Mar 11 10:03:27 CET 2002 (Manuel Serrano):

	*** The CONTAINER class now contains a file slot.

	*** References may now contains #\Newline characters that are turned
	to #\Space.
	
	
Fri Mar  8 12:15:01 CET 2002 (Manuel Serrano):

	*** Fix a LaTeX problem on reference to figures.

	*** Standard library has been extended with the functions
	DOCUMENT?, CHAPTER?, SECTION?, SUBSECTION?, SUBSUBSECTION?,
	CHAPTER-NUMBER, SECTION-NUMBER, SUBSECTION-NUMBER and
	SUBSUBSECTION-NUMBER.

	
Thu Mar  7 09:27:28 CET 2002 (Manuel Serrano):

	*** Tiny modification in the TeX back-end. The character ~ is now
	inserted in section references between the body and the section
	number.

	
Tue Mar  5 17:30:04 CET 2002 (Manuel Serrano):

	*** Better support for image dimensions in the TeX back-end.

	
Sat Mar  2 11:09:45 CET 2002 (Manuel Serrano):

	*** INDEX improvements. Large indexes may have a pre-header line
	that display the index sections contains in the index (a header line
	such as "A, B, D, E, H, ...").

	*** Scribeinfo now uses Scribe index. It does not use any longer 
	its own index mechanism.

	
Mon Feb 25 12:13:22 CET 2002 (Nicolas Rennert):

	*** HTML back-end now can use its own header and footer (see the
	documentation).

	
Mon Feb 25 09:46:13 CET 2002 (Manuel Serrano):

	*** HTML back-end is now able to render sections in separate files.

	
Tue Feb 12 09:20:34 CET 2002 (Manuel Serrano):

	*** Fix a small problem in scribeinfo. @index commands where loosing
	the separator at the end of line. The result was words
	were illegally collapsed.

	
Fri Feb  1 07:36:40 CET 2002 (Manuel Serrano):
	
	********* Distribution of the release 0.8
        -----------------------------------------
	
Fri Feb  1 07:36:40 CET 2002 (Manuel Serrano):

	*** Various Scribeinfo improvements. 

	
Thu Jan 31 06:45:02 CET 2002 (Manuel Serrano):

	*** There is now a separate manual for the Scribe styles.
	
	*** Fix back-ends initialization so that Apache module is now able
	to process several user requests without getting troubles.
        
	*** Introduction of numbered-ref (see the REF form in the standard
	API).

	*** Public runtime functions are now compiled in safe mode. 
	
	
Thu Jan 31 06:45:02 CET 2002 (Manuel Serrano):
	
	********* Distribution of the release 0.7
        -----------------------------------------

	
Mon Jan 28 17:24:16 CET 2002 (Manuel Serrano):

	*** Lot of TeX back-end improvement. In particular, there is now
	an ACMproc Scribe style that produce ACM compliant LaTeX sources.

	*** Fix some initialization problems in the Scribe Apache module.
	It still contains some reentrance problem but it is getting better.
	
	
Wed Jan 16 08:47:04 CET 2002 (Manuel Serrano):

	*** Tex back-end now automatically introduces \- in tt mode in order
	to avoid unsplit long lines.

	
Tue Jan 15 11:31:23 CET 2002 (Manuel Serrano):

	*** Fix some problem with ending newlines in the standard prgm
	pretty-printers (BIGLOO, SCRIBE and XML).

	*** Scribe is now linked against the safe version of the
	Bigloo library. Otherwise user errors were not correctly trapped.
	
	
Mon Jan 14 16:19:58 CET 2002 (Manuel Serrano):

	*** Various TeX back-end improvements.

	*** The output file is now delayed until the Scribe AST has been 
	entirely built.
	
	
Fri Jan 11 11:06:53 CET 2002 (Manuel Serrano):

	*** Addition of various TeX customization (mainly for acmproc).

	*** Fix some error in sectioning in the TeX back-end.

	*** Fix a bug in the reader the sequence ,] was breaking it.

	*** Various Bibtex improvements.
	
	
Thu Jan 10 10:27:11 CET 2002 (Manuel Serrano):

	*** TeX customization now support package option. This is useful for
	producing TeX statement such as:
	
   	   \usepackage[T1]{fontenc}

	See the user manual (customization) for details.

	*** Fix a small problems in indexes. Unique entries were not
	correctly handled when they were enriched with a note.

	
Wed Jan  9 14:09:05 CET 2002 (Manuel Serrano):

	*** Scribeinfo now (roughly) handles @math expressions.
	
	*** Support for superscripts (sup) and subscripts (sub).
	
	*** changelog style is now included in the standard distribution.
	
	
Wed Jan  9 10:47:47 CET 2002 (Manuel Serrano):

	*** Improved IOs error messages.

	*** PRGM environment now correctly handles LINEBREAK constructions.

	
Wed Jan  2 10:02:15 CET 2002 (Manuel Serrano):

	*** Lists (itemize, description, enumerate) now uses an explicit ITEM 
	construction. It turns out that it is much easier to read the 
	source text that way. Sorry for the backward incompatibility.
	
	
Tue Jan  1 09:12:21 CET 2002 (Manuel Serrano):

	*** Various emacs mode improvement.

	
Fri Dec 21 12:33:27 CET 2001 (Manuel Serrano):

	*** Fix another configuration problem (support for --prefix).

	
Fri Dec 21 07:45:38 CET 2001 (Manuel Serrano):

	*** Redesign of the bibliography mechanism. Creation of the 
	scribebibtex tools and specific Scribe bibliography format.

	
Thu Dec 20 17:32:08 CET 2001 (Manuel Serrano):
	
	********* Distribution of the release 0.5
        -----------------------------------------

	
Thu Dec 20 16:20:08 CET 2001 (Manuel Serrano):

	*** Fix a bug in subsection and subsubsection references. These
	were never found.

	
Thu Dec 20 11:35:01 CET 2001 (Manuel Serrano):

	*** JVM support for those who don't have Bigloo or for those who
	are running a platform that does not support shared library.

	
Wed Dec 19 16:21:23 CET 2001 (Manuel Serrano):
	
	********* Distribution of the release 0.4
        -----------------------------------------

	
Wed Dec 19 16:20:27 CET 2001 (Manuel Serrano):

	*** Fix configuration problem and production of a correct RPM.

	*** Auto configuration of mandir and docdir.

	
Wed Dec 19 09:13:56 CET 2001 (John Malecki):

	*** Fix an `export' problem in the main Makefile.
	

Tue Dec 18 11:46:28 CET 2001 (Manuel Serrano):
	
	********* Distribution of the release 0.3
        -----------------------------------------

	
Tue Dec 18 10:40:25 CET 2001 (Manuel Serrano):

	*** Change the default HTML configuration in order to 
	enlarge document titles.

	
Mon Dec 17 20:55:43 CET 2001 (Manuel Serrano):

	*** Fix small glitches in various style files.

	*** Fix small glitches in manual web pages.

	*** Fix small glitches in the HTML back-end.
	

Fri Dec 12 10:03:41 CET 2001 (Manuel Serrano):
	
	********* Distribution of the release 0.2
        -----------------------------------------

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