SILE v0.15.6 Is Released

13 Nov 2024 — Caleb Maclennan

Version v0.15.6 of SILE has been released and is available for download! See the included CHANGELOG.md or review the commit history for more explicit details.

Summary of Improvements

Things got away from me. This release has more features and fixes than we usually let pile up in a patch release. I’ve spent a good deal of time over the last month in the hospital with my son and PR notifications just kept pouring in!

Most of the substantive features and fixes again come from Didier Willis. This release includes a whole bunch of his work on math feature support fleshing out the MathML compatibility and correcting various math layout issues. It also his work updating hyphenation support for a number of languages and adding support for many more, mostly adapted from TeX hyphenation libraries. He also normalized some inconsistencies in the AST generated by the SIL and XML readers and fixed line layout in the verbatim package. His work towards CSL support is still pending my bandwidth to review in the bibliography project.

Additionally this release should be a bit more flexible in working with 3rd party modules. Notably we've accommodated some Lua limitations on macOS and Homebrew installations should be more versatile now. For Docker workflows, the SILE-provided LuaRocks should be visible to the host system as well.

Behind the scenes some minor features provided by vendored Lua libraries have been ported to Rust instead. This shouldn't even be noticeable to end users at this point, but serves as a proof of concept for implementing other internals in Rust while still bridging seamlessly to Lua. Many issues with building static binaries with embedded resources were resolved and build conflicts with ICU 76.1 resolved. Passing the class options via a CLI flag is again parsed correctly. Finally a few error messages and warnings have been cleaned up to be more readable and perspicuous.

New Features

  • build: Add --with-vendored-luarocks=dir for use in distros with pseudo-system path handling (e93f072)
  • cli: Catch missing required arguments at parse time (84f0d78)
  • cli: Mimic Lua VM's ;; to extend not replace the default package paths (bb47f21)
  • core: Add px unit as 0.75pt as per CSS3 (59f4bfd)
  • core: Add separate crate to enable exporting interfaces to Lua (3a95a48)
  • core: Extend SU.collatedSort for complex table sorting (3854be8)
  • docker: Splice SILE's vendored rocks tree into system LuaRocks (548f426)
  • languages: Add Albanian (sq) basic support (a1eedfc)
  • languages: Add Belarusian (be) basic support (084f81d)
  • languages: Add bibliography localizations for Swedish (#2125) (17371f3)
  • languages: Add bibliography localizations for Turkish (84f15e9)
  • languages: Add Church Slavonic (cu) basic support (01bead5)
  • languages: Add Coptic (cop) basic support (e25b806)
  • languages: Add Friulan (fur) basic support (4b88d91)
  • languages: Add Galician (gl) basic support (b5116ed)
  • languages: Add Interlingua (ia) basic support (6f920e6)
  • languages: Add Kurmanji (kmr) basic support (c700786)
  • languages: Add Macedonian (mk) basic support (c4ef9e9)
  • languages: Add Occitan (oc) basic support (4610122)
  • languages: Add Pāli (pi) basic support (13c2531)
  • languages: Add Telugu (te) basic support (237d06d)
  • languages: Add Upper Sorbian (hsb) basic support (51ac4f8), closes #1994
  • math: Add mathcal, mathbb and similar commands in TeX-like math (c867d60)
  • math: Add more TeX-like math commands behaving as big operators (ac9337e)
  • math: Support a TeX math like text command (518e497)
  • math: Support MathML beveled fractions (567ac54)
  • math: Support MathML maction (basic) and mstyle (partial) (0df93b1)
  • math: Support MathML movablelimits attribute (92c678a)
  • math: Support MathML mpadded and refactor TeX-like phantoms (d579096)
  • math: Support MathML mphantom and TeX-like phantom, hphantom, vphantom (46e5954)
  • math: Support MathML mroot element (88ebff7)
  • math: Support MathML mtext and ms elements (3023b93)
  • math: Support mathvariant on special extra greek characters (6f379da)
  • math: Support square roots (7efd24d)
  • math: Support TeX-like math limits (eb402c5)
  • rusile: Enable embedding of Rusile module (693d7d4)

Bug Fixes

  • build: Correct regression in v0.15.5 in generating embedded files list (dae2f7f)

  • build: Smooth out build on ICU 76.1 per Homebrew report (8390534), closes #2152

  • cli: Correct return value handling when process() doesn't lift weight (fb6b866)

  • cli: Fix handling of --option flag in Rust CLI (a77170e)

  • core: Correct module load paths when building in developer mode (4fbb6c0)

  • docker: Setup system locales in containers where it actually counts, not before (55a4ba3)

  • inputters: SIL commands and environments must generate the same syntax tree (4854992)

  • languages: Add missing hyphenation patterns in polytonic Greek (42d14dd)

  • math: Add missing MathML mathvariant mappings (803d699)

  • math: Avoid page breaks before display math equations (19fd61f), closes #2160

  • math: Correct math greek symbols and their var-alternate (6346a2d)

  • math: Correct sub/superscript position for subformulas vs. symbols (6827eb9), closes #2122

  • math: Default table row/column spacing must depend on the math font size (9ce5271)

  • math: Empty mrow's in munderover should not affect the baseline (6f67be5)

  • math: Fractions must have padding to avoid visual confusion (1c009c7)

  • math: Handle LaTeX-like math top accent commands correctly (f4c513a)

  • math: Honor stretchy attribute on MathML mo elements (bde46cd)

  • math: Paired open/close atoms shall be forced in a mrow in TeX-like math (4bbeaa6)

  • math: Stretchy symbols should work on large content (workaround) (589c058)

  • math: Support basic operator stretching along the inline axis (b6e054e)

  • math: Support linethickness attribute on MathML mfrac (e0559e8)

  • math: Top-level math element must behave as an (horizontally stacked) mrow (1f1a1a0), closes #1293

  • math: Wrong condition on moveable limits (workaround) (19906b9)

  • math: Wrong vertical alignment of integral signs (a42181f)

  • packages: Ensure package dependency verbatim is loaded when using autodoc (3a0ef46)

  • packages: Honor margins and base line skips in verbatim mode (58f65d5)

  • shapers: Measure a character should also return its depth (e243b2f)

  • typesetters: Obey blank lines in verbatim-like context (94cfe06)

  • utilities: Fixup AST debugger to handle anonymous content (c50dd07)

  • utilities: Normalize formatting of messages, warnings, and errors (a47b8f3)

SILE v0.15.5 Is Released

29 Aug 2024 — Caleb Maclennan

Version v0.15.5 of SILE has been released and is available for download! See the included CHANGELOG.md or review the commit history for more explicit details.

Summary of Improvements

This is a relatively minor maintenance release. Thanks again to ongoing work by Didier Willis, support for bibtex format bibliographies is improving. Date and author parsing and rendering has been improved. Support for CSL is still brewing in the bibliography project.

Additionally the --quiet flag now correctly suppresses all parts of warning messages for cleaner output when you don't want to debug your project. Even more behind the scenes, the entire code base has also been spell-checked, with hundreds of words in comments, code, and documentation being corrected.

New Features

  • packages: Support biblatex date field and improve date formatting (5169d67)

Bug Fixes

  • build: Fix distribution of unit tests clean up dist file list (00abf9b)

  • classes: Make document state available during class's post init (71336b9)

  • cli: Suppress trace info in quiet for warnings but do show errors (e12dcc9)

  • packages: Parse and split all bibtex name fields (e3a7dc1), closes #2052

  • packages: Use non-breakable space in bibTeX name splitting, not tilde (f4ea4ed)

SILE v0.15.4 Is Released

28 Jun 2024 — Caleb Maclennan

Version v0.15.4 of SILE has been released and is available for download! See the included CHANGELOG.md or review the commit history for more explicit details.

Summary of Improvements

The dust finally settled on the big v0.15.0 release. This patch does include a few more build system touch ups affecting the source tarball that made in require automake when it didn't really need it. But the impetus for this release is actually new features and typesetter bug fixes.

On the language front, João Quinaglia has jumped in with some more domain expertise and Portuguese should now fully support hyphenation of Brazilian locale specific patterns. Additionally we fixed two bugs in the localization system. The locale set for Fluent localizations now properly tracks the document language at any given moment whether set by a font or even a Latin interjection in a bibliography.

Speaking of bibliographies, Didier Willis is in the middle of a deep overhaul of our bibliography handling. This release has a number of features and bug fixes that lay some groundwork for better parsing and handling bibtex files. More fixes and features are also in progress and even ready for testing. If you have any interest in bibliographies feel free to review ongoing issues and PRs in the bibliography cleanup project.

New Features

  • build: Add a developer target to test build dist without automake (7bdaf16)
  • languages: Add Brazilian Portuguese specific hyphenation points (895c575)
  • packages: Biblatex data inheritance and field mapping (646e3a4)
  • packages: Support @string syntax in bibTeX bibliography (63083ad), closes #2051
  • packages: Support @xdata entry type and xdata field in bibTeX bibliography (ca906f0)
  • packages: Support crossref field in bibTeX bibliography (c4ae919), closes #2021
  • tooling: Add developer target to build Rust API docs (384fa46)

Bug Fixes

  • build: Avoid building sile binaries if not using them (bbde8e6)

  • build: Avoid the perceived need for an extra automake cycle in dist tarball (f634a60)

  • build: Do not distribute main man page, requires Rust tooling (26a6346)

  • build: Don't distribute distfiles list with configure option specific output (b9d95fd)

  • build: Flag transitive dependency on Git if not using system LuaRocks (ea2d501)

  • languages: Always set Fluent locale when setting document.language (283fdc3)

  • packages: Correct handling of ampersands and tildes in bibtex (aaa613f), closes #2050 #1860

  • packages: Ignore @preamble in bibTeX bibliography (742a0c4), closes #2051

SILE v0.15.3 Is Released

11 Jun 2024 — Caleb Maclennan

Version v0.15.3 of SILE has been released and is available for download! See the included CHANGELOG.md or review the commit history for more explicit details.

Summary of Improvements

This release fixes a regression in v0.15.0 involving 3rd party modules. We were not referencing the LUA_PATH (and LUA_CPATH) environment variables at run time, only at build time. This made it unreasonably difficult to install and use 3rd party modules to a user's $HOME directory and use them in SILE. We were finding modules installed at the system level or locally to a project, but other trees were not being seen.

With this fix, installing modules via luarocks --local install should be a viable workflow again. Before running SILE, make it aware of these modules with eval $(luarocks --local path). The same goes for any arbitrary luarocks --tree locations.

Bug Fixes

  • core: Allow LUA_PATH env var to take effect at runtime (e573c2d)

SILE v0.15.2 Is Released

10 Jun 2024 — Caleb Maclennan

Version v0.15.2 of SILE has been released and is available for download! See the included CHANGELOG.md or review the commit history for more explicit details.

Summary of Improvements

The big v0.15.0 release had some rough edges. But we mentioned that in the v0.15.1 release notes already. The truth is we fumbled some of the sources in the source tarball again. Here is to being able to build cleanly from the source tarball again.

Bug Fixes

  • build: Bundle all assets in source distribution (5198641)