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The most signficant new feature in this release is probably the addition of support for side floats, margin notes, and custom floats in FO/PDF output.
Heres’s the full list of changes for the release
FO
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Moved footnote properties to attribute-sets.
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Added support for side floats, margin notes, and
custom floats. -
Added new parameters
body.start.indentand
body.end.indentto the
set.flow.properties template. -
Added support for
xml:id -
Added support for
refdescriptor. -
Added support for multiple
refnamedivs. -
Added
index.entry.propertiesattribute-set to support customization of index
entries. -
Added
set.flow.propertiescall to each
templatefo:flow
to support customizations entry point. -
Add support for
@floatstylein
figure -
Moved hardcoded properties for index division titles
to theindex.div.title.propertiesattribute-set.
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Added support for
table-layout=”auto” for XEP. -
Added
index.div.title.properties
attribute-set. -
$verboseparameter is now
passed to most elements. -
Added
refentryto
tocinpart, as it is
permitted by the DocBook schema/DTD. -
Added backmatter elements and
articletotocin
part, since they are permitted by the
DocBook schema/DTD. -
Added
mode=”toc” for
simplesect, since it is now permitted in
thetocif
simplesect.in.tocis set. -
Moved hard-coded properties to
nongraphical.admonintion.propertiesand
graphical.admonition.properties
attribute sets. -
Added support for
sidebar-widthand
float-typeprocessing instructions in
sidebar. -
For tables with HTML markup elements, added support
fordbfo bgcolorPI, the attribute-sets
namedtable.properties,
informaltable.properties,
table.table.properties, and
table.cell.padding. Also added
support for the templates named
table.cell.propertiesand
table.cell.block.propertiesso that
tabstyles can be implemented. Also added support for tables
containing onlytrinstead of
tbodywithtr. -
Added new paramater
hyphenate.verbatim.characterswhich
can specify characters after which a line break can occur in
verbatim environments. This parameter can be used to extend
the initial set of characters which contain only space and
non-breakable space. -
Added
itemizedlist.label.markupto enable
selection of different bullet symbol. Also added several
potential bullet characters, commented out by default. -
Enabled all id’s in XEP output for external olinking.
HTML
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Added support for
refdescriptor. -
Added support for multiple
refnamedivs. -
Added support for
xml:id -
refsynopsisdivas a section for
counting section levels

