Release 0.8.8

Changes

@@ -1,3 +1,49 @@
+0.8.8 2024-02-29
+      - This release addresses a large variety of usability, fidelity, robustness,
+        portability and output-quality issues.
+      - Improved CSS, html, accessibility affecting
+        * framing, position & rotation, color
+        * figure/subfigure grouping
+      -  MathML (closer to MathML Core)
+         * avoid gratuitous math mode (simple sub/superscripts); mathvariant
+         * option to avoid InvisibleTimes, when not certain (--noinvisibletimes)
+      - Improved emulation of TeX internals affecting
+        registers, \chardef, accents, intarray, tracing
+      - More TeX-like "scanning" of tokens affecting
+        * expansion, input,
+        * alignments (\halign,tabular)
+      - improved block mode processing
+        * affecting \parbox, {minipage}, \centering, \raggedright/left
+        * More consistent set of block elements:
+            ltx:block, ltx:logical-block, ltx:sectional-block,
+        * along with their inline variants:
+            ltx:inline-block, ltx:inline-logical-block, ltx:inline-sectional-block
+        * NOTE: breaking change: ltx:inline-para has been renamed ltx:inline-logical-block
+      - Improvements to processing alignments (\halign, tabular),
+        more TeX-like (processing templates, spacing)
+      - Improved processing of images, graphics, svg generation
+        * image post-processing
+        * pgf, tikz, pgfplots, tikz-cd
+      - initial support for Vietnamese, t5enc
+      - improved Windows portability
+      - improved schema documentation
+      - Improvements to test cases.
+
+      - New bindings: boxedminipage, cmap, ifdraft, marginnote, tikz-cd.
+      - Improvements to bindings: aa, aas, algorithm2e, amsmath, amsthm,
+        cleverref, comment, csquotes,  elsarticle, enumitem, expl3, framed,
+        hyperref, hyperxmp, IEEEtran, lineno, listing, longtable, mn2e,
+        nicefrac, ntheorem, pdfpages, pgfmath, pgfplots, rotating, srcltx,
+        sidecap, subcaption, subfiles, thmtools, tikz, url, xfrac, xypic.
+
+      Thanks to Deyan Ginev and Tom Wiesing for ongoing development and support;
+      Special thanks to Christoph Hauert, Tim Prescott, Vincenzo Mantova for patches and bindings;
+      Reports from Felix Benning, Miles Cranmer, circlestarzero, Dan Frankow, giovanni111,
+      goska, Duc A. Hoang, Ramnath Karthekesan, Pedro Konzen, Joseph Long, Greg Meyer,
+      molke-productions, Dennis Mueller, David Poole, Hilmar Preusse, Nico Schloemer,
+      Neil M. Sheldon, Heinrich Stammerjohanns, Henrik Tidefelt, Andrew Tonks,
+      userrand, Eelco van Vliet, Richard Zach, |8|.
+
 0.8.7 2022-12-16
       - This release addresses a large variety of usability, fidelity, robustness,
         portability and output-quality issues.

doc/site/index.tex

@@ -75,8 +75,10 @@
 \begin{description}
 \item[\url{https://latexml.mathweb.org/editor}] an online editor/showcase
   of things that \LaTeXML\ can do.
-\item[\url{https://arxmliv.kwarc.info}] An experiment processing
-  the entire \url{https://arXiv.org}.
+%\item[\url{https://arxmliv.kwarc.info}] An experiment processing
+%  the entire \url{https://arXiv.org}.
+\item[\url{https://arxiv.org/}] is now offering preprints in HTML format using \LaTeXML\
+ (currently experimental).
 \end{description}
 
 % In brief, \texttt{latexml} is a program, written in Perl, that attempts to

lib/LaTeXML.pm

@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ use LaTeXML::Util::ObjectDB;
 use LaTeXML::Post::Scan;
 use vars qw($VERSION);
 # This is the main version of LaTeXML being claimed.
-use version; our $VERSION = version->declare("0.8.7");
+use version; our $VERSION = version->declare("0.8.8");
 use LaTeXML::Version;
 # Derived, more informative version numbers
 our $FULLVERSION = "LaTeXML version $LaTeXML::VERSION"

lib/LaTeXML/Common/XML/Parser.pm

@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ sub parseFile {
   my ($self, $file) = @_;
   LaTeXML::Common::XML::initialize_catalogs();
   #  LaTeXML::Common::XML::initialize_input_callbacks($$self{parser});
-  if ((-s $file) > 20_000_000) {
+  if (((-s $file) || 0) > 20_000_000) {
     $$self{parser}->set_option('huge', 1); }
   return $$self{parser}->parse_file($file); }
 

release/notes

@@ -96,13 +96,14 @@ Chocolatey: Ronald Tse <[email protected]>
 
  * Modify ~/Macports/tex/LaTeXML/Portfile
   - Change version number
+  - Set revision to 0
   - regen portindex
     cd ~/Macports ; portindex
   - recompute checksums
     (use port -v install and it suggests checksums for you to cut'n'paste!)
     (Be careful of cached tarballs: use port clean --all)
   - Test Portfile; PR requirements:
-    sudo port lint LaTeXML
+    sudo port lint --nitpick LaTeXML
     sudo port test LaTeXML
     sudo port -vst install LaTeXML
     test basic functionality

t/003_unit_imagemagick.t

@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ use Test::More;
 BEGIN { use_ok('LaTeXML::Util::Image'); }
 
 my $image_converter = image_object();
-my $is_image_magick = $image_converter and ((ref $image_converter) eq "Image::Magick");
+my $is_image_magick = $image_converter && ((ref $image_converter) eq "Image::Magick");
 if (!$is_image_magick) {
   diag("Skip: This unit test only examines basic Image::Magick conversion, when installed."); }
 else {

tools/compilemetrics

@@ -54,10 +54,11 @@ $latexml->withState(sub {
     my $dumper = Data::Dumper->new([$metrics], [qw(STDMETRICS)]);
 
     $dumper->Indent(0);
+    $dumper->Sortkeys(1);
     my $FH;
     open($FH, ">", $MODULEPATH);
     print $FH $HEADER;
-    print $FH $dumper->Dump();
+    print $FH "our " . $dumper->Dump();
     print $FH "1;\n";
     close($FH);
     print STDERR "Wrote Standard font metrics to $MODULEPATH\n";
@@ -82,7 +83,8 @@ BEGIN {
 # \=========================================================ooo==U==ooo=/ #
 # THIS IS A GENERATED FILE! DO NOT EDIT
 # (see LaTeXML/tools/compilemetrics)
+use strict;
+use warnings;
 package LaTeXML::Common::Font::StandardMetrics;
-our $STANDARDMETRICS;
 EoHeader
 }