[publican-list] Announcement: Publican 2 released

[Joshua Wulf]

Congratulations! Publican is becoming an even more awesome open source 
publishing tool chain.

On 07/07/2010 07:47 AM, Ruediger Landmann wrote:
> Publican 2 is finally finished and released. The most significant 
> update is the incorporation of the web-publishing component that was 
> previously used stand-alone by Red Hat internally and, more recently, 
> has been used by the Fedora Documentation Project to build the Fedora 
> documentation suite.[0] With web publishing built in, Publican can 
> handle the whole publication process from raw XML to a live website. 
> The new feature is documented in a new chapter in the Users' Guide.[1]
>
> Apart from this major new feature, Publican 2 also includes fixes for 
> several bugs; most notably: xrefs to various elements that didn't 
> work, problems with <indexterms> for translators, and various 
> presentation flaws.
>
> No changes are required to documents created with (or updated with) 
> Publican 1.x to make them build in Publican 2. The "publican old2new" 
> command remains available to update documents created with Publican 
> 0.x so that they will build in Publican 2.
>
> Publican 2 is not yet available as a Fedora update; however, you can 
> download builds from the Fedora build system (Koji) for testing[2]. If 
> Publican 2 works for you, help make it available for others. Visit the 
> Fedora update system (Bodhi),[3] log in with your Fedora ID, and give 
> positive Karma to the package. Note that if you do not log in to 
> Bodhi, your feedback will not count.
>
> For users of other operating systems, the source tarball is available 
> from Fedorahosted.[4]
>
> Cheers,
> Rudi
>
>
> Changelog:
> - Add Publican::Website.
> - Add web_*_label params for web menus.
> - Add underscores to cleanset, installbrand, and printtree. BZ #581090
> - Update docs with Website content
> - Update brand license text.
> - Fix different log jar path on F14+
> - Add constraint to help_config output.
> - Fix segfault when indexterm has no leading content. BZ #592666
> - Fix inline indexterm. BZ #592823
> - Translate productname tag. BZ #592669
> - Fix formalpara missing ID. BZ #595564
> - Add dummy lang.css to avoid 404's. BZ #595799
> - Improve validation error message. BZ #593887
> - Fix qandaentry ID. BZ #593892
> - Fix Icon non-conformance. BZ #593890
> - Fix admonitions splitting across pages. BZ #596257
> - Fix HTML simple list border. BZ #599258
> - Fix formal object IDs. BZ #601363
> - Fix Revision History layout. BZ #559787 #598828 #598833
> - Remove title color from term in HTML. BZ #592822
> - Fix highlight breaking callouts. BZ #590933
> - Add support for LineColumn coords in area tag.
> - Update font requires for F12 and F13.
> - Fix clean_ids adding newline to verbatim. BZ #604465
> - Fix index missing ID. BZ #606418
> - Fix files dir being missed. BZ #609345
> - Adjust admonition layout.
>
> [0] http://docs.fedoraproject.org
>
> [1] "Chapter 6. Building a website with Publican", available online at 
> http://jfearn.fedorapeople.org/en-US/Publican/2.0/html/Users_Guide/sect-Users_Guide-Website.html 
>
>
> [2] 
> http://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org/packages/publican/2.1/0.fc13/noarch/publican-2.1-0.fc13.noarch.rpm 
> for Fedora 13 or 
> http://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org/packages/publican/2.1/0.fc12/noarch/publican-2.1-0.fc12.noarch.rpm 
> for Fedora 12
>
> [3] https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/publican-2.1-0.fc13 for 
> Fedora 13 or 
> https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/publican-2.1-0.fc12 for Fedora 12
>
> [4] https://fedorahosted.org/releases/p/u/publican/Publican-2.1.tar.gz
>
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