[publican-list] Publican 4.0 released!!! Get it now!!!!

[Zac Dover]

We are happy to announce the release of Publican 4.0!

The highest-priority fixes and enhancements in this release add the ability of Publican to use DocBook 5 as an input format, add improvements to the presentation of Publican-driven websites, and improve your control over and navigation of your Publican-generated documents.

Docbook 5 is now supported as an input format, and Docbook 5-compatible templates are now included in Publican. You can start using DocBook 5 for your new book projects straight away, and there's no more need to downconvert docs when collaborating with other projects!

Publican 4 includes numerous improvements to presentation and enhancements to navigation. It is now possible to organize books by category: this is an improvement upon the previous organization mechanism, which permitted sorting only by alphabetical order. Navigation for documents without multi-page HTML format has been added, so if all you've got is a PDF, you can ship just that in a Publican-driven website. Finally, translators can now control the sort order of glossary entries in their languages, so there's no need to avoid glossaries any more!

A large number of presentation issues have been improved in Publican 4. The subtitle element now takes its size from the preceding title. Publican 4 now includes support for SVG graphics in Internet Explorer 8 and up. Improvements to PDF processing ensure that Indic language PDFs now build correctly. <imageobject>, <textobject>, <package>, <example>, and <option> XML tags are now rendered properly. The presentation of CSS styles in EPUB format has been improved: this improves the presentation of admonitions, <screen> tags, <programlisting>s, and removes the web footer tag from EPUB output. OPF manifests and internal identifiers have also been improved in EPUB output.

Several improvements have been made for translators and consumers of translated content. In addition to the glossary issue already mentioned, a new feature provides a notification when a translation is older than the document in the source language.

Thanks to everyone involved in Publican 4.0 testing and documentation!

For a more complete list of features, see the Publican 4.0 Release Notes available shortly from:
http://jfearn.fedorapeople.org/en-US/Publican/index.html

The Publican source is available from:

https://fedorahosted.org/releases/p/u/publican/publican-4.0.0-0.fc19.src.rpm (SRPM)
https://fedorahosted.org/releases/p/u/publican/Publican-v4.0.0.tar.gz (tarball)

We expect to ship Publican 4.0.0 in Fedora by the end of the month.

Zac Dover
Team Publican