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SILE v0.9.2 Is Released

03 Jun 2015 — Simon Cozens

Version v0.9.2 of SILE has been released and is available for download.

  • New packages for: rotated content, accessing OpenType features and ligatures, alternative input of Unicode characters, PDF bookmarks and links, input transformation.

  • Packages to help with typesetting chord sheets and bibles.

  • Experimental packages for bibliography management, typesetting URLs, Japanese vertical typesetting, balanced columns, and best-fit page breaking.

  • Support for quoted strings in the parameters to TeX-like commands.

  • Language support: Many fixes to Arabic; support for Tibetan and Kannada; hyphenation for many languages; much improved bidirectional typesetting.

  • Warn when frames are overfull.

  • Support for older versions of autotools, for Lua 5.3 and mingw32 environments.

  • Continuous integration and testing framework

  • Fixes to long-standing bugs in grid support, centering, ligatures, insertions and page breaking.

  • Better font handling and substitution.

  • Valid PDFs will still be generated on error/interruption.

  • Improved error handling and error messages.

  • Many miscellaneous bug fixes.