Changelog

5.5

5.5.8 (2026-04-14)

• Honor box height in lines (line height).
• Box border.
• Vertical align for Box in paragraph mode.
• Images: vertical alignment in Paragraph.
• Remove action command.
• Suppressinfo for metadata.
• Show sum mismatch in sp compare.
• New attribute match on Record.

5.5.7 (2026-04-02)

• Bugfix table shrink algorithm.

5.5.6 (2026-04-02)

• Bugfix PDF copy/paste hyphen minus.

5.5.5 (2026-04-01)

• Fix minimum width in tables with colspan and rowspan.
• Fix CSS inheritance on td/tr.

5.5.4 (2026-04-01)

• HTML tables: honor rowspan and colospan, Prevent rowspan at bottom of page.

5.5.3 (2026-03-09)

• Server mode: add endpoint to retrieve publisher-protocol.xml.

5.5.2 (2026-03-06)

• Correct lots of spelling mistakes in the documentation.
• Implement accessibility for Output/Text (#614 ).
• PDF/UA structure tree.
• Fix PDF/UA and InsertPages / SavePages (#613 ).
• Add search path, don’t duplicate files.
• Better error message for function calls and old XPath parser.
• Bugfix letter-spacing and hyphenation.
• Filter: set classpath for Saxon correctly, including all required JAR files.

5.5.1 (2026-03-02)

• Bug fixe for image inclusion (opacity), attribute context handling and Creator version.

5.5.0 (2026-02-26)

• Bugfix letter-spacing in tables.

5.4.0 (2026-02-24)

• Release stable version 5.4.

5.3

5.3.24 (2026-02-23)

• New command Section to organize layout files (without affecting formatting).

5.3.23 (2026-02-19)

• Bugfix ForAll keeping the context.

5.3.22 (2026-02-18)

• Massive speed improvement.
• Margin protrusion setting is now in 1/1000 em.

5.3.21 (2026-02-05)

• Bugfix: hyphenation now works correctly with letter-spacing.

5.3.20 (2026-01-29)

• Bugfix: calculate remaining height in PlaceObject / absolute positioning.

5.3.19 (2026-01-29)

• Fix panic on sp –help / –version.

5.3.18 (2026-01-26)

• Add letter-spacing attribute to DefineTextformat (in 1/1000 em).
• Fix infinite loop in post_linebreak.

5.3.17 (2026-01-23)

• Fix infinite loop in HTML tables.
• Better handling of killing child processes in sp.

5.3.16 (2026-01-20)

• HTML tables with only header or footer (empty body) are now rendered correctly.

5.3.15 (2026-01-19)

• Bugfix for empty HTML tables.
• Implement Until for the new XPath parser.
• HTML enhancements (including documentation).

5.3.14 (2026-01-15)

• HTML can now wrap across multiple pages.

5.3.13 (2026-01-14)

• Remove infinite loop in HTML tables.

5.3.12 (2025-12-05)

• Add global html option in Options command and –option html=off command line flag to control HTML parsing.

5.3.11 (2025-12-04)

• Improve typesetting performance with early exits, cached lookups, and leaner attribute handling in mknodes.
• Modularize publisher.lua into color, links, and metadata modules to reduce file size.
• Update qrencode to the latest upstream version.

5.3.10 (2025-11-30)

• Fix CSS/HTML rendering slowdown.

5.3.9 (2025-11-25)

• Allow text formats to use the font size defined in CSS for HTML content.
• Fix handling of relative (em) font sizes based on the current font size.
• Fix HTML border rendering in regular paragraph mode.
• Update to latest Saxon HE.
• Remove Rust source code.

5.3.8 (2025-11-21)

• Fix HTML borders and currentcolor in table rules.

5.3.7 (2025-11-19)

• Rewrite HTML border.
• Allow styles in HTML tables.

5.3.6 (2025-11-11)

• Bugfix reset ul counter.

5.3.5 (2025-11-10)

• Fix @font-face in CSS (fatal crash).

5.3.4 (2025-11-10)

• HTML: add support for more list style types (lower-alpha, upper-alpha, etc.).
• Set exit code when error count is greater than zero.
• Compare tool: refactor for stability and improved HTML report (checksums, build errors, thumbnails, sorting).
• Refactor HTML → Lua rendering pipeline for structured output and cleaner CSS separation.

5.3.3 (2025-11-04)

• Reinstate old curly brace syntax for Value/select and old xpath parser (#680 ).
• Remove building of Rust library (#678 ).

5.3.2 (2025-11-01)

• Fix indentation after br newline.

5.3.1 (2025-10-21)

• Fix Windows/Rust loading.

5.3.0 (2025-10-21)

• Alternative Rust library for dynamic binding.

5.2

5.2.0 (2025-10-14)

• Release Version 5.2.

5.1

5.1.29 (2025-10-14)

• Rewrite parts of the Go-XML parser.

5.1.28 (2025-10-05)

• Fix PDF metadata / ISO dates.

5.1.27 (2025-10-04)

• Bugfix XPath function doc() returns root node instead of document node.

5.1.26 (2025-09-23)

• New XPath function translate().
• Documentation: clarified use of px (pixels).
• tabular.lua converted into a module (internal change only).
• Safeguard for missing file name in AttachFile.
• New XPath function distinct-values().

5.1.25 (2025-09-15)

• Publisher now continues multiple runs even if errors occur.
• Support for Japanese typesetting.
• Fixed fallback with multi-character sequences.

5.1.24 (2025-09-15)

• Warning when empty hyperlink.
• Improved error message for empty group/trace.
• Improved error messages for duplicate files and errors writing aux-file.
• XPath: Added format-number() and round-half-to-even().
• New attribute type “rawstring” without {} escaping.

5.1.23 (2025-09-10)

• Optional resizehandler for DPI setting (configuration file).
• CSS font-family can now have multiple entries.

5.1.22 (2025-08-25)

• More HTML/CSS features (pseudo classes, padding in tables and borders).

5.1.21 (2025-08-23)

• NoBreak with background color.
• NoBreak in table cells (#670 ).
• Bugfix image conversion with same filename and different extensions.
• Extend basic HTML features (custom fonts, border, rem size).

5.1.20 (2025-08-19)

• Set trapped to false in PDF for preflight check.
• Do some safeguards to prevent Go/Lua thread errors.

5.1.19 (2025-08-18)

• Allow paragraph shape in groups.
• Bugfix: copy files truncate itself (#668 ).
• Put PDF producer entry in metadata.

5.1.18 (2025-08-01)

• Bugfix PlaceObject/rotate and vreference.

5.1.17 (2025-07-30)

• Bugfix lxpath mode and new XPath parser.
• Re-implemented HTML mode.
• Set log level in server mode.

5.1.16 (2025-07-15)

• Fix sd:format-number (#664 ).

5.1.15 (2025-07-14)

• Proper escaping of XML metadata in ZUGFeRD attachments.

5.1.14 (2025-07-10)

• Bugfix HTML and uppercase tags.

5.1.13 (2025-07-03)

• Ignore DEL (decimal 127) control character in input (#663 ).

5.1.12 (2025-06-25)

• Fix (XPath) boolean value of attributes.

5.1.11 (2025-06-18)

• No fatal error in case of missing http-image.

5.1.10 (2025-06-06)

• Better log messages.
• New XPath function sd:symbol() to enter a glyph id.
• Remove old XPath documentation.

5.1.9 (2025-05-23)

• New option ‘addlocalpath’ in the configuration file for turning off recursive search of the working directory.
• New Option mpcolorwarning to show the MetaPost color warning (defaults to true).

5.1.8 (2025-05-22)

• Bugfix: layout function sd:current-framenumber() and new XPath parser.

5.1.7 (2025-05-18)

• cache=none works for SVG conversion (#622 ).

5.1.6 (2025-05-15)

• New command sp checkversion to see if a newer version is available (#660 ).

5.1.5 (2025-05-05)

• Update to new LuaTeX binaries (1.22.0).
• Change Windows system font directory discovery.

5.1.4 (2025-05-05)

• Bugfix: table split in AtPageShipout (#659 ).
• Absolute positioning within a group.

5.1.3 (2025-04-07)

• Fix spaces in imagehandler.

5.1.2 (2025-04-07)

• Change then width and the height for vertical rules. Internal change, should not create visible changes.

5.1.1 (2025-04-07)

• Lua-preprocessor: runtime.execute returns success/exit code.

5.1.0 (2025-04-04)

• Set background-color for each page.

5.0

5.0.2 (2025-04-04)

• Bugfix image handler automatic conversion.

5.0.1 (2025-04-01)

• Bugfix: rounding error in some grid configurations.

5.0.0 (2025-03-11)

• Release Version 5.0.

4.21

4.21.20 (2025-03-11)

• Remove direction attribute on Span.

4.21.19 (2025-03-10)

• Better error messages for internal Lua errors.

4.21.18 (2025-03-04)

• Fix bidi brackets (#650 ).

4.21.17 (2025-02-26)

• Bugfix in HTML mode.

4.21.16 (2025-02-25)

• Bugfix: break-before=“page” and break-below=“no” in DefineTextformat has no effect.

4.21.15 (2025-02-25)

• Textformat: force page break before element.

4.21.14 (2025-02-19)

• Fix incorrect ordering in bidi (#649 ).

4.21.13 (2025-02-18)

• Various bugfixes (EAN13 barcodes, metapost colors and new XPath parser).
• Value/Function can be used to create a table cell (#647 ).

4.21.12 (2025-02-17)

• Column width in tables allow fixed widths and dynamic width calculation (#648 ).

4.21.11 (2025-02-10)

• Bugfix NoBreak and incomplete font family (#646 ).

4.21.10 (2025-02-05)

• Allow clipping of objects at page margin (#640 ).

4.21.8 (2025-02-03)

• Various bug fixes, documentation fixes (#582 , #594 , #611 , #629 , #630 ).
• Allow grid tracing of groups (#569 ).

4.21.7 (2025-01-31)

• Bugfix for Fallback command in HarfBuzz mode.

4.21.6 (2025-01-30)

• Start Fallback command for fonts in HarfBuzz mode (#603 ).

4.21.5 (2025-01-23)

• Allow variables in Pagetype and new XPath mode.

4.21.4 (2025-01-22)

• Bugfix: font fallbacks and old XPath mode.

4.21.3 (2025-01-22)

• Fix display error for table rules in Adobe Acrobat (#644 ).

4.21.2 (2025-01-20)

• Rewrite border-collapse (#645 ).
• Remove white background on every page.

4.21.1 (2025-01-17)

• Bugfix: hyperlinks to URLs broken.

4.21.0 (2025-01-16)

• Add bleed=“auto” for Box.
• Rename extension from intermediate files (now .xml instead of .dataxml).

4.20

4.20.0 (2025-01-15)

• Release Version 4.20.

4.19

4.19.40 (2025-01-15)

• Saturation for spot colors.

4.19.39 (2025-01-13)

• Bugfix Harfbuzz: make OSF and other non-standard glyphs copy-able in PDF.

4.19.38 (2025-01-09)

• Fix filename detection and ZUGFeRD attachments.
• Allow PDF/A-3 as an output format.

4.19.37 (2025-01-07)

• Better ZUGFeRD version detection.
• New possibility to flip objects (#642 ).
• Write OutputIntent with ZUGFeRD PDF/A files. This fixes an error for invalid PDF files.
• Bug fix: fallback for fonts in fontforge mode (#605 ).
• Lax and strict handling of XML namespaces (#641 ).
• Harfbuzz: make OSF and other non-standard glyphs copy-able in PDF.

4.19.36 (2024-12-17)

• New XPath function namespace-uri().
• Change ZUGFeRD default file name to ‘factur-x.xml’.
• Better ZUGFeRD profile detection.

4.19.35 (2024-12-02)

• Bugfix border collapse and colspan (#636 ).

4.19.34 (2024-11-26)

• Fix value of last() in new XPath parser when called with ProcessNode.

4.19.33 (2024-11-24)

• Option to switch off color profile for spot colors.

4.19.32 (2024-11-22)

• Bugfix image dimensions in HTML mode and new XPath mode.
• Function: now mixed commands and values are allowed (#627 ).

4.19.31 (2024-11-04)

• Add option to control script size and offsets (#625 ).

4.19.30 (2024-10-29)

• Bugfix sd:variable() and new XPath parser (#623 ).

4.19.29 (2024-10-29)

• New Margin parameters inner and outer instead of left and right.

4.19.28 (2024-10-28)

• New strategy <NoBreak reduce="fontfit" /> (#622 ).

4.19.27 (2024-10-23)

• Data XML now available in the root layout XML element (#621 ).
• Bugfix: SetGrid with width/height after nx/ny (#619 ).

4.19.26 (2024-10-05)

• Bugfix ClearPage within SavePages (#617 ).

4.19.25 (2024-10-02)

• Fix multiple InsertPages in forward mode.

4.19.24 (2024-09-30)

• Bugfix sd:count-saved-pages and new xpath mode.

4.19.23 (2024-09-16)

• PDF/UA enhancements.

4.19.22 (2024-09-06)

• PDF/UA enhancements.
• Handle UTF-16 XML files.

4.19.21 (2024-09-04)

• Backward incompatible change: Change XPath variable semantics (#612 ).
• Fix tab=“hspace” for harfbuzz mode.
• Reduce logging noise.

4.19.20 (2024-08-14)

• Assume inkscape > version 1.0 for SVG conversion.
• Remove superfluous ET/BT/EMC command in page stream (#602 ).

4.19.19 (2024-07-24)

• Bug fix Image and width=“100%” and lxpath mode (#600 ).
• Bug fix NoBreak/fontsize and empty input (#598 ).

4.19.18 (2024-07-17)

• Fix NoBreak/fontsize and dynamic data (#598 ).
• Error message and documentation for --prepend-xml and --extra-xml in lxpath-mode (#597 ).
• Enable margin protrusion in harfbuzz mode (#595 ).

4.19.17 (2024-07-12)

• Allow setting of font expansion parameter.
• sp list-fonts works again.

4.19.16 (2024-07-07)

• Enhance accessibility options.

4.19.15 (2024-07-04)

• New platform support: Linux ARM 64 bit (experimental).

4.19.14 (2024-07-01)

• Bugfix Lists and multicolumn (#593 ).
• Bugfix nested HTML ul/ol list.

4.19.13 (2024-07-01)

• Bugfix SavePages in forward mode and contents after SavePages (#592 ).

4.19.12 (2024-06-25)

• Bugfix for space below Image in Paragraph (#591 ).
• Overflow objects start in column 1.

4.19.11 (2024-06-23)

• Make white background configurable (#590 ).

4.19.10 (2024-06-18)

• New XPath function for getting lengths (#587 ).
• New Option for reporting overfull lines (#588 ).
• Bugfix for overfull line detection.

4.19.9 (2024-06-13)

• Fix Image/bleed=auto for bottom margin (#586 ).

4.19.8 (2024-06-13)

• Add Sanskrit hyphenation patterns.
• The PDF version is now 1.7 as the default.
• Better support for tagged PDF.

4.19.7 (2024-06-10)

• Honor jpeg orientation in includes images (#584 ).

4.19.6 (2024-05-30)

• Better error message for sd:decode-html().

4.19.5 (2024-05-23)

• Fix underline in sd:decode-html (#581 ).

4.19.4 (2024-05-22)

• Allow setting of /Creator with --suppressinfo (#577 ).

4.19.3 (2024-05-15)

• Set PDF producer.
• Fix sd:(keep-)alternating for new XPath parser.

4.19.2 (2024-04-22)

• Fix autoopen when an error occurs.

4.19.1 (2024-04-21)

• Bug fix: color of table rules when no width is given in Columns (#576 ).
• Bug fix: Value in Function.

4.19.0 (2024-04-20)

• Enhance Function.

4.18

4.18.0 (2024-04-19)

• Release version 4.18.0

4.17

4.17.24 (2024-04-19)

• Add SavePages test case.

4.17.23 (2024-04-17)

• Fix Makeindex for new xpath mode.
• Marginprotrusion with harfbuzz.

4.17.22 (2024-04-12)

• Lots of bug fixes: number(), internal variables and While in new XPath mode, single space in Harfbuzz mode (#570 , #573 , #574 ).

4.17.21 (2024-03-27)

• Re-introduce C library to fix error on Windows (#570 ).

4.17.20 (2024-03-21)

• Spacing fixes (kerning in initials, multiple non-breaking-spaces in harfbuzz mode, multiple zero width spaces).
• Bugfixes for various layout functions in lxpath mode.

4.17.19 (2024-03-18)

• Fix layout functions for lxpath.

4.17.18 (2024-03-14)

• Re-introduce kerning in HB mode when fontforge is the default font loader.

4.17.17 (2024-03-13)

• sdluatex binary lookup now in PATH environment variable.
• CGO_C/LDFLAGS override for compiling sp library.

4.17.16 (2024-03-06)

• Change the default harfbuzz shaper to “ot”.
• Bugfix harfbuzz and newline with some fonts (#566 ).

4.17.15 (2024-03-04)

• Re-introduce status file (compatibility in server mode).
• Update the image processing library (resize).

4.17.14 (2024-03-03)

• Remove status file, better error messages/exit status.

4.17.13 (2024-03-02)

• Remove luaglue library.
• Log level ’notice’ is between info and warn.

4.17.12 (2024-03-01)

• Unicode left to right and similar markers don’t give warning (#565 ).

4.17.11 (2024-02-29)

• Markdown implementation.
• Image resize does not require imageserver anymore.

4.17.10 (2024-02-19)

• New (pro) feature for resizing images (needs the speedata imageserver).
• Rewrite Go/Lua XML parser (lxpath).

4.17.9 (2024-02-12)

• Bugfix not updating $_lastpage in luxor XML mode (#561 ).

4.17.8 (2024-01-29)

• Enhance error messages.

4.17.7 (2024-01-18)

• Better output when process exits.

4.17.6 (2024-01-18)

• Remove debugging message.

4.17.5 (2024-01-17)

• Experimental option “xmlfile” to use intermediate files for lxpath (#557 ).

4.17.4 (2024-01-11)

• Few bugfixes related to harfbuzz/lxpath (#556 ).

4.17.3 (2024-01-11)

• lxpath is the new default XPath parser..

4.17.2 (2024-01-10)

• Make harfbuzz the default font loader.

4.17.1 (2024-01-10)

• Switch go Go 1.21.
• Rewrite speedata Publisher logging/output.

4.17.0 (2024-01-08)

• New ZIP layout without extra sdluatex folder.

4.16

4.16.0 (2024-01-07)

• Release version 4.16.0.

4.15

4.15.21 (2024-01-04)

• Rename backgroundcolor to background-color on various elements (#554 ).
• Allow frame color ‘-’ for “no color”.
• Opacity with DefineColor and value="...".
• Set default schema in catalog.xml to RELAX NG.

4.15.20 (2024-01-02)

• Bugfix: zero width space (#552 ).
• Log file lookup when verbose > 0.

4.15.19 (2023-12-23)

• Bugfix background with Span (#547 ).

4.15.18 (2023-12-20)

• Transparency with Frame border (#544 ).

4.15.17 (2023-12-19)

• Line information on Message (#545 ).
• Transparency with Frame (#544 ).

4.15.16 (2023-11-28)

• Various metapost related fixes (#542 , #543 ).

4.15.15 (2023-11-26)

• Fix Various bugs related to transparency (#542 ).

4.15.14 (2023-11-25)

• Few bugfixes related to lxpath (DefineGraphic and ProcessNode).
• Schema change (allow Overlay in Case).

4.15.13 (2023-11-21)

• Rename A/embed to embedded (#522 ).

4.15.12 (2023-11-15)

• Bugfix Mark command with the new XPath parser.
• New function sd:dimexpr() for unit calculation.

4.15.11 (2023-11-14)

• Overlay: fix positioning of multiple children (#520 ).
• Link to embedded files (#522 ).
• Update lxpath XPath parser.

4.15.10 (2023-11-08)

• Bug fix new XPath parser again (#538 ).
• New attribute require on Layout command.

4.15.9 (2023-11-07)

• Enhance new XPath parser with simple for expression.
• Bug fix new XPath parser (#537 ).

4.15.8 (2023-11-02)

• New XML/XPath parser (#536 ).
• Remove standalone HTML subsystem.

4.15.7 (2023-10-21)

• Border color with A (#526 ).
• Re-implement sp –ignore-case (#534 ).
• Not found hyphenation patterns give warning instead of error (#532 ).

4.15.6 (2023-10-18)

• Bugfix for URL text disappearing (#529 ).
• Allow white space in image handlers (#527 ).

4.15.5 (2023-10-10)

• Add new metapost command spcolor (#524 ).
• Allow comments in variables file (#518 ).

4.15.4 (2023-09-18)

• Rewrite and extension of the MetaPost subsystem.

4.15.3 (2023-09-07)

• Add more Unicode spacing characters.

4.15.2 (2023-08-18)

• Warning for image not found on non-last Option fix (#514 ).

4.15.1 (2023-08-16)

• New PDFOptions for page layout.

4.15.0 (2023-07-17)

• Allow tracing grid to stay on front (#512 ).

4.14

4.14.0 (2023-07-03)

• Release version 4.14.

4.13

4.13.18 (2023-06-06)

• Bugfix: border collapse and rowspan (#482 ).
• Bugfix Nobreak can have only one child (#455 ).
• Bugfix. Span/padding and space at the beginning (#506 ).

4.13.17 (2023-06-05)

• Bugfix valign and halign on PlaceObject (#503 ).
• Bugfix available space with grid dy > 0 (#505 ).

4.13.16 (2023-06-02)

• Bugfix halign=“right” with grid gap > 0 (#503 ).
• Add warning on duplicate file search entries (#501 ).
• New syntax for filename, page number and PDF box in image functions (#502 ).

4.13.15 (2023-05-11)

• Bugfix with Options startpage.
• Bugfix: Image bleed=“auto” and Options trim not set.
• Outline fonts.

4.13.14 (2023-05-04)

• Bug fix for *-columns in tables and minwidth.
• Bug fix for image margin (#491 ).
• Frame: set border radius for all four corner (#492 ).

4.13.13 (2023-04-20)

• margin-* in Image.
• Bugfix colspan (#481 ).

4.13.12 (2023-03-27)

• \r in version file (#486 ).
• Update dependencies.

4.13.11 (2023-03-14)

• Bugfix for empty aux files.

4.13.10 (2023-03-10)

• Special file name with colon syntax in layout functions (#468 ).
• B: # in URLs correctly encoded (#472 ).
• Set display mode only if requested (#470 ).

4.13.9 (2023-02-27)

• New Column spec minwidth and new keywords for width (min and max).
• New XPath function matches() (#453 ).
• Remove documenation from ZIP.

4.13.8 (2023-02-23)

• Two new functions for page width and page height (#464 ).

4.13.7 (2023-02-22)

• Bugfix: broken hyperlink gets inserted at kern (#461 ).
• Fix bottom radii at Frame (#459 ).

4.13.6 (2023-02-20)

• Rename graphics attribute on Td to graphic (#457 ).
• Remove command NewPage from schema and documentation.
• Colon syntax for specifying page number on sd:aspectratio, sd:imagewidth and sd:imageheight (#456 ).

4.13.5 (2023-01-07)

• Bugfix for sd list-fonts (#454 ).
• Bugfix for border with hyphens (#449 ).
• Specify default type for attachments (#451 ).

4.13.4 (2022-11-22)

• Bugfixes calculating hashes and reading attachments (#446 ).
• Bugfix style at penalty (#449 ).

4.13.3 (2022-11-18)

• A few bugfixes related to AttachFile.

4.13.2 (2022-11-10)

• Vertical shift for hyperlink anchors.
• AttachFile can now attach other files than ZUGFeRD invoices..

4.13.1 (2022-11-09)

• Bugfix spacing in RTL mode (#445 ).

4.13.0 (2022-09-30)

• Start with Pro plan.

4.12

4.12.0 (2022-09-30)

• Release version 4.12.0.

4.11

4.11.8 (2022-09-06)

• Suppressinfo allows creator to be set (#420 ).
• New attribute displaymode for PDFOptions (#428 ).
• Optional delay execution on SetVariable (#412 ).
• Add sd:sha256, sd:sha512 and sd:md5 functions (#414 ).
• Set border color for hyperlinks (#416 ).

4.11.7 (2022-08-25)

• Fix NoBreak inside Td (#410 ).
• Handle command line variables with backslashes (#411 ).
• Allow Unicode strings in attachment description (#376 ).
• Correct kerning in mixed fontforge / harfbuzz paragraphs (#413 ).
• Fix space at end of the paragraph (#392 ).

4.11.6 (2022-07-25)

• Better error handling for file lookup (#407 ).

4.11.5 (2022-07-15)

• Rename the methods on command Clip (#405 ).

4.11.4 (2022-07-12)

• Bugfix for URL escaping.

4.11.3 (2022-07-12)

• New command Clip to cut off edges from objects.

4.11.2 (2022-07-08)

• Various bugfixes introduced in the migration from LuaJIT/FFI.

4.11.1 (2022-07-07)

• Remove LuaJIT/FFI dependency.

4.10

4.10.0 (2022-07-07)

• Release version 4.10.

4.9

4.9.10 (2022-07-07)

• Bugfix: remove space between text and number (#392 ).
• Bugfix: named destinations and unbalanced parenthesis.

4.9.9 (2022-07-06)

• Filter: show output on runtime.execute.

4.9.8 (2022-07-01)

• Allow to set image shape on Image element.
• Add XML decoder for lua filter.
• Bugfix URL rendering with hyperlinks (#381 ).

4.9.7 (2022-06-27)

• runtime.execute in Lua filter.

4.9.6 (2022-06-22)

• Only documentation updates.

4.9.5 (2022-05-17)

• Bugfix for long table foot on the last page (#268 ).

4.9.4 (2022-05-12)

• Better fix for ZWJ (#369 ).

4.9.3 (2022-05-10)

• New command line option to set the PDF version (--pdfversion).
• Bugfix zero width joiner in Hindi texts (#369 ).

4.9.2 (2022-05-09)

• Allow setting the creator of the document.

4.9.1 (2022-05-03)

• Fix PDFOptions overrides previous entries (#367 ).
• Fix ordering of bookmarks in InsertPages (#366 ).

4.8

4.8.0 (2022-05-02)

• Release version 4.8.

4.7

4.7.13 (2022-04-29)

• Bugfix: indent and br in HTML mode (#302 ).
• Start-attribute with ol (HTML mode) (#311 ).
• Bugfix: A href und interaction=“no” (#362 ).

4.7.12 (2022-04-28)

• Bugfixes (sd:group-height() and HTML rendering) (#364 ).
• VSpace now has minheight and height attributes.

4.7.11 (2022-04-07)

• Allow color - in Tablerule.

4.7.10 (2022-04-05)

• Bugfix table split and rowsep / leading (#361 ).

4.7.9 (2022-04-01)

• Bugfix transparency and multipage table (#360 ).
• Re-implement pathrewrite.

4.7.8 (2022-03-24)

• NextFrame moves cursor to first column (#358 ).
• URL escape hyperlinks.
• sd:decode-html() decodes all HTML entities.
• Bugfix ul/ol missing first entry of li (#357 ).

4.7.7 (2022-03-02)

• XML parser: ignore DTD (#355 ).
• Schema: add NoBreak to ForAll, Case, Otherwise, Loop,… (#356 ).

4.7.6 (2022-02-21)

• Background color (text) and kerning (#353 ).

4.7.5 (2022-02-20)

• Background color and mix of rtl/ltr text (#352 ).

4.7.4 (2022-02-09)

• Update to Saxon 11.

4.7.3 (2022-01-21)

• Bugfix unicode escape in HTML parsing (#350 ).

4.7.2 (2022-01-07)

• Bugfix: table balancing and minheight=1 (#348 ).

4.7.1 (2021-12-17)

• Bugfix: colspan > 1 and border-collapse (#347 ).

4.6

4.6.0 (2021-11-10)

• Release version 4.6.

4.5

4.5.19 (2021-11-04)

• Enhanced error handling.

4.5.18 (2021-11-02)

• Set DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH on macOS.
• Restrict {} xpath evaluation for non-xpath attributes (all except select, test).

4.5.17 (2021-10-26)

• Set the number of publishing-runs for the server.

4.5.16 (2021-10-26)

• Increase verbosity of sp server (sp server --verbose).

4.5.15 (2021-10-20)

• Add new route for REST API to send data and get PDF in one request.

4.5.14 (2021-10-08)

• Deprecate NewPage, use ClearPage. See #345 for details.

4.5.13 (2021-10-07)

• Include color profile in distribution (#344 ).

4.5.12 (2021-10-06)

• Internal/Tablerule: replace filled rectangular by PDF line.
• Set vertical excess space behavior for rowspan in tables.

4.5.11 (2021-09-23)

• Colored QR codes.

4.5.10 (2021-09-13)

• Switch back to Lua based XML reader.

4.5.9 (2021-09-12)

• Allow Br before Image (#342 )

4.5.8 (2021-08-30)

• Remove spurious line break in HTML (#340 ).

4.5.7 (2021-08-25)

• Bugfix for self closing HTML tags (#339 ).
• Better length calculation in XPath expressions.

4.5.6 (2021-07-16)

• New layout function sd:tounit() for unit conversion.
• PlaceObject keepposition=“yes” with absolute positioning.

4.5.5 (2021-07-06)

• Allow SetGrid to access data.

4.5.4 (2021-07-02)

• HSpace at the beginning of text (#338 ).

4.5.3 (2021-07-02)

• Ignore data attributes for css styling (#337 ).

4.5.2 (2021-06-01)

• Handle double XInclude with the new XML parser.

4.5.1 (2021-05-25)

• Internal changes (named attributes, more CSS alike style names).
• New Go based XML reader.

4.4

4.4.1 (2021-05-25)

• Bugfix for InsertPages (#335 ).

4.4.0 (2021-05-11)

• Release version 4.4.

4.3

4.3.21 (2021-05-11)

• Warning for Windows users and non-ascii path names (#310 ).

4.3.20 (2021-05-04)

• Bugfix for multiple NewPage (#334 ).

4.3.19 (2021-05-03)

• Bugfix for InsertPages after NewPage (#333 ).

4.3.18 (2021-04-27)

• Better border-collapse implementation (#260 , #332 ).

4.3.17 (2021-04-26)

• Various bugfixes (#330 , #331 , #316 , #317 ).

4.3.16 (2021-04-16)

• New alignment PlaceObject/hreference=center (#327 ).
• Bugfix: NewPage openon="…" at end of document (#329 ).
• Print md5sum of XML files with –verbose.

4.3.15 (2021-04-15)

• New PDFOption for hyperlink borders.
• Transparency with text and images.
• MetaPost enhancements.

4.3.14 (2021-03-24)

• Change MetaPost variable names, add page.* variables.
• Bugfix error on sd:file-exists() and external resource (again).

4.3.13 (2021-03-23)

• MetaPost CSS colors and bug fixes.
• Bugfix error on sd:file-exists() and external resource.

4.3.12 (2021-03-16)

• Bugfix for Incscape on Windows (#324 ).
• Set language on Hyphenation (#319 ).

4.3.11 (2021-03-16)

• Bugfix for Incscape on Windows (#324 ).
• Include metapost format in distribution.

4.3.10 (2021-03-12)

• Basic MetaPost functionality.

4.3.9 (2021-03-10)

• Better error message for problems running sdluatex.

4.3.8 (2021-03-09)

• Grow image if needed (maxwidth,maxheight set and stretch=“yes”) (#321 ).

4.3.7 (2021-03-08)

• Bugfix visible-pagenumbers (#320 ).

4.3.6 (2021-02-23)

• Bugfix Tablefoot (#315 ).
• Cleanup Go source organization.
• Allow hyperlinks for Image and Box.

4.3.5 (2021-02-12)

• New variable for page sectioning (_matter).
• Bugfix li/p (#313 ).
• sd:merge-pagenumbers() with hyperlinks.
• New layout function sd:visible-pagenumber().
• Link to pages (<A page="...").
• Document parts (frontmatter, mainmatter) for different page numbering.
• New xpath function sd:romannumeral().

4.3.4 (2021-02-04)

• Set temporary directory in server mode.

4.3.3 (2021-01-20)

• Empty <p> in HTML mode creates an empty line (#309 ).
• Bugfix: space creates a new line in HTML mode (#308 ).

4.3.2 (2021-01-19)

• Bugfix for newlines introduced by empty attributes (#306 ).
• Support for mulitple br tags in HTML (#303 , #305 ).
• Bugfix for rowspan in table head (#300 ).

4.3.1 (2021-01-13)

• $_lastpage handles final NewPage (#299 ).
• Empty paragraph results in newline (#297 ).
• Fix indentation of UL/OL, set fontfamily.
• Harfbuzz: fix accents placement (#296 , #298 ).
• HTML: allow br in elements (#293 ).
• HTML parser: handle void elements.
• Windows 64 bit package

4.2

4.2.0 (2021-01-09)

• Release version 4.2

4.1

4.1.25 (2021-01-06)

• Rewrite command Initial (backwards incompatible change) (#287 ).

4.1.24 (2021-01-04)

• Styling of li::before (#286 ).
• Underline after dash (#291 ).
• Bookmark at PlaceObject level (#290 ).
• Bugfix incorrect line height (#289 ).

4.1.23 (2020-12-15)

• Implement li::before for alternative bullet points. (#286 )

4.1.22 (2020-12-11)

• Bugfix for right-to-left and empty strings (#285 ).

4.1.21 (2020-12-08)

• Beautify version information (#284 ).
• Bugfix for incorrect font scaling (#283 ).

4.1.20 (2020-12-07)

• Bugfix for thin lines in qrcodes (#282 ).

4.1.19 (2020-12-03)

• Lots of minor changes (documentation and re-organization of internal code).

4.1.18 (2020-11-23)

• New options columndirection in Pagetype.
• Bugfix for initials in rtl mode.
• Re-organize Go files, move sp server to a separate package.

4.1.17 (2020-11-18)

• Fixes for bidi text/right to left text, documentation updates.

4.1.16 (2020-11-13)

• Bugfix for background-color and word space.

4.1.15 (2020-11-12)

• Some right-to-left and mixed ltr/rtl fixes.
• Bugfix for rowspan in table heads (#279 , #280 ).
• Remove doctype from XML catalog (this is due to a regression in VSCode/XML mode).
• Report missing glyphs for harfbuzz mode.

4.1.14 (2020-10-30)

• Automatic NewPage before SavePages (forward mode).
• Bidi algorithm (experimental).

4.1.13 (2020-10-28)

• Set page width and page height at Pagetype.
• Bugfix color at end of a paragraph (#276 ).

4.1.12 (2020-10-27)

• Paragraph: allow direction setting (experimental).
• Bugfixes for harfbuzz mode.
• Allow setting of fontloader in sp/config.
• Higher resolution for QA images.
• Schema fix (languages).

4.1.11 (2020-10-22)

• Better accents placement in harfbuzz mode (RTL).
• Bugfix for hyphenation after a <br> (#274 ).
• Deprecate fontface on text commands (Paragraph, Textblock, Initial, Text, Barcode, Table, Nobreak). This command will stop working in version 5.

4.1.10 (2020-10-21)

• Set language on Span (#273 ).
• Allow language short codes in XML Schema.
• First preparations for right-to-left text.
• Schema fix (allow XPath in Paragraph/language).
• Bugfix textformat/margin bottom and border bottom (#262 ).

4.1.9 (2020-10-19)

• Bugfix reordering bookmarks with forward pagestore.
• Guess language/script if not explicitly set (harfbuzz mode).
• Lazy loading of fonts.
• Bugfix empty first table head and last table foot (#271 ).
• More diagnostic information on failed server mode publisher run.

4.1.8 (2020-10-13)

• Bugfix textformat in table cells (#270 ).
• Add kerning in harfbuzz mode, allow kern tracing.
• Disable liga in harfbuzz mode.
• Replace font CrimsonText by CrimsonPro.

4.1.7 (2020-10-07)

• Add basic support for simplified Chinese. (#204 )
• Fix HTML whitespace handling.

4.1.6 (2020-10-05)

• Better padding-left and padding-right on Paragraph (fixes #267 ).
• Control vertical spacing in HTML mode and HTML data.
• Enhance harfbuzz font loader (more supported fonts).
• Server temporary directories can start with any character.

4.1.5 (2020-10-01)

• Access options during the prepressing stage.

4.1.4 (2020-10-01)

• Bugfix ordering of ul/ol li (#264 ).
• Margin notes left for Paragraph.

4.1.3 (2020-09-28)

• Fix HTML ul/ol and li.
• Allow xinclude in table cells (#263 ).

4.1.2 (2020-09-23)

• Few bugfixes and improvements (Barcode/keepfontsize).

4.1.1 (2020-09-14)

• New paragraph construction mode and new HTML processing, better language support.

4.1.0 (2020-09-08)

• Bugfix for locale setting.

4.0

4.0.0 (2020-09-07)

• Release stable version 4.0.0.

3.9

3.9.36 (2020-09-07)

• New Option reportmissingglyphs=“warning”.

3.9.35 (2020-08-26)

• Bugfix for empty Value tag.

3.9.34 (2020-08-24)

• Safe require harfbuzz library, new binaries for Windows/Mac/Linux.

3.9.33 (2020-08-23)

• Disable harfbuzz on windows.

3.9.32 (2020-08-21)

• Experimental (unsupported) inclusion of harfbuzz renderer.

3.9.31 (2020-08-16)

• Allow interactions (hyperlinks) as a default.

3.9.30 (2020-08-14)

• Fix hyperlinks (no border in acrobat, make them work).

3.9.29 (2020-08-14)

• Bugfix for ForAll and reduced result set (#261 ).

3.9.28 (2020-08-03)

• Bugfix for rowspan/colspan calculation. (#259 )

3.9.27 (2020-07-31)

• padding-left and padding-right on Paragraph. (#258 )

3.9.26 (2020-07-29)

• New xpath functions firstmark and lastmark to get the first and the last marker on a page.
• New internal variable $_lastpage that holds the page number of the previous run.

3.9.25 (2020-07-26)

• Bugfix for underline color (#256 ).
• Enhance schema (#257 ).

3.9.24 (2020-07-10)

• New <Option> randomseed.
• Bugfix for hyperlinks at the end of a line starting with space (#255 ).

3.9.23 (2020-07-05)

• Server mode: /v0/pdf/‹id› deletes the PDF file on the server after the request.

3.9.22 (2020-07-05)

• Server mode: add configurable filter and extra-dir, move entries to section server.

3.9.21 (2020-07-03)

• Lua filter runtime.find_file to get the absolute path of a resource.

3.9.20 (2020-07-02)

• Server mode: specify modes in the URL.

3.9.19 (2020-07-01)

• Enhance HTML support (margin-top, margin-bottom and other).

3.9.18 (2020-06-25)

• Enhance HTML support.

3.9.17 (2020-06-22)

• Bugfix qrcode (from upstream).
• CSS border-radius.

3.9.16 (2020-06-12)

• Bugfix HTML, update documentation.

3.9.15 (2020-06-10)

• Update to new LuaTeX 1.12 (without visible changes).
• New Englisch manual.

3.9.14 (2020-05-19)

• Various bugfixes introduced in recent development version.

3.9.13 (2020-05-15)

• Bugfixes related finding the executable (#254 ).

3.9.12 (2020-05-12)

• Two bugfixes related to HTML mode (#252 and #253 ).

3.9.11 (2020-05-12)

• New HTML mode: better table support.

3.9.10 (2020-05-10)

• New HTML mode: sp html myfile.html.
• Second argument for sd:imageheight, sd:imagewidth for exact size.
• Image as a child of Output.

3.9.9 (2020-04-21)

• Enhanced HTML support.

3.9.8 (2020-04-03)

• New option PDFOptions/showbookmarks for Adobe Acrobat.

3.9.7 (2020-03-31)

• Bugfix: double hyperlink in one line (#251 )
• CSS: table 100% width, td: align
• Textformat: set margin at the top of the surrounding box.
• First (preliminary) version of the new HTML parser.

3.9.6 (2020-03-12)

• Table balancing: single tablerule in last frame gets into previous frame. (#250 )
• Bugfix: simple HTML table (#249 ).
• Bugfix: html hyperlinks with widows/orphan (#248 ).
• Bugfix: run_saxon() fails.
• Bugfix: backgroundcolor of table cells with defaults in Column (#247 ).

3.9.5 (2020-02-25)

• Fix height calculation for cell allocation.

3.9.4 (2020-02-14)

• New way to call run_saxon in the preprocessing filter.

3.9.3 (2020-02-10)

• Set log file for server mode.

3.9.2 (2020-01-27)

• New option interaction to remove hyperlinks, handle U+2011 correctly.

3.9.1 (2020-01-16)

• External image processors and converter.

3.8

3.8.0 (2020-01-14)

• Release stable version 3.8.0.

3.7

3.7.24 (2020-01-06)

• A few bugfixes (#242 , #174 , #239 ). Prepare for 3.8.

3.7.23 (2019-12-19)

• Add cache option “none”.

3.7.22 (2019-12-11)

• Improvements for caching external media files.

3.7.21 (2019-12-11)

• Improvements for downloading assets.

3.7.20 (2019-11-27)

• New command line parameter: set image cache.

3.7.19 (2019-11-25)

• Bugfix for table balancing (#243 ).

3.7.18 (2019-11-22)

• New finalizer callback and new http module in Lua filter.

3.7.17 (2019-11-19)

• Better error messages for external files loading (#241 ).

3.7.16 (2019-11-18)

• Bugfix 2 for table balancing (#240 ).

3.7.15 (2019-11-05)

• Bugfix for table balancing (#240 ).

3.7.14 (2019-10-31)

• Halloween release. (Bugfix for SavePages in backward mode).

3.7.13 (2019-10-28)

• Update to LuaTeX version 1.11.1 for the new page_order_index callback.
• Allow mode access via $_mode variable.
• Remove feature “insert after” on NewPage.

3.7.12 (2019-10-22)

• New command line switch mode for alternative code execution.
• Re-order pages with SavePages and InsertPages.

3.7.11 (2019-10-09)

• Page number on errors and warnings

3.7.10 (2019-09-11)

• New command ‘sp new’ for scaffolding.
• Add XML Schema (XSD).

3.7.9 (2019-09-03)

• Allow Options to appear more than once in the layout file.

3.7.8 (2019-08-15)

• sd:group-width() now has a second parameter for get the exact width, just as sd:group-height().
• Allow re-setting the page dimensions.
• Better rotation in table cells.

3.7.7 (2019-07-18)

• Fallback for LoadFontfile.

3.7.6 (2019-07-01)

• Allow elements in Message.
• New XPath function number().
• Bugfix initials and line height.

3.7.5 (2019-06-12)

• Bugfix textformat/fill-last-line (#234 ).
• Bugfix valign=bottom (#233 ).

3.7.4 (2019-05-21)

• Bugfix table balancing (#232 ).

3.7.3 (2019-05-02)

• AttachFile: set the PDF name of the included file.

3.7.2 (2019-04-28)

• Bugfix: TD with align=right containing only one or more spaces (#230 )
• AttachFile can select an XML node from data instead of reading from an external resource.

3.7.1 (2019-04-02)

• Some bug fixes (#221 , #225 , #226 , #228 , #229 ).

3.6

3.6.0 (2019-02-13)

• Release version 3.6.0

3.5

3.5.13 (2019-02-13)

• Bugfix for valign=“botton” in PlaceObject (#222 )
• Fix leading in paragraphs for small fonts (#221 )
• Fix URL breaking (#173 )
• Fix textformat tracing (#172 )

3.5.12 (2019-01-31)

• Bugfix for table balancing and break-below=no

3.5.11 (2019-01-27)

• Bugfix: set row when balancing tables.
• Row height in table balancing taken into account.

3.5.10 (2018-12-21)

• Various bugfixes. Remove XProc filter. New attribute clip with Frame. Update hyphenation patterns. XInclude for data. Move to Go 1.11 modules.

3.5.9 (2018-11-29)

• Default margin now 1cm, bugfix for dynamic table head and balance=“yes”.

3.5.8 (2018-11-28)

• Fix a few minor errors.

3.5.7 (2018-11-21)

• Bugfix table split and cursor movement (#202 ).
• Support for PDF/X-3 and PDF/X-4.
• Basic support for PDF/UA (accessibility).

3.5.6 (2018-11-09)

• Better handling of rotation in table cells.

3.5.5 (2018-10-30)

• SVG on the fly conversion with Inkscape.
• Optional filename in Lua-filter XML-writer.

3.5.4 (2108-10-04)

• New file loader allows many ways to include files.
• Allow inclusion of files with non-ascii characters on Windows.

3.5.3 (2018-09-25)

• Various bugfixes (HTML-linking in data, pdf-dest link too low #198 ).

3.5.2 (2018-09-18)

• Letter spacing in Span.
• Break-below works with Tablerule.
• CID-keyd fonts can be used.
• Bugfixes for upper-case(), lower-case() and replace().
• Various bugfixes introduced by LuaTeX 1.0.7.

3.5.1 (2018-09-05)

• First release with dynamic library, mainly for testing.

3.4

3.4.0 (2018-09-03)

• Release version 3.4.0

3.3

3.3.14 (2018-08-30)

• Update to LuaTeX version 1.0.7
• sp compare HTML status report
• limit TCP connection to localhost

3.3.13 (2018-08-22)

• New command TableNewPage to eject a page within a table
• Access user variables within the Lua filter
• New xpath function lower-case()

3.3.12 (2018-08-13)

• Bugfix for table cell width calculation (#194 )
• Ellipsis can be drawn using the circle command.

3.3.11 (2018-08-08)

• Bugfix for tables spanning multiple frames (#191 )
• Ensure minimal length of last line of a paragraph (#188 )

3.3.10 (2018-07-31)

• sd:group-height() with a second argument, a unit.
• Bookmarks don’t change the zoom of the PDF
• Bugfix for NoBreak
• New Lua implementation for the filter (yuin/gopher-lua instead of Shopify/go-lua)

3.3.9 (2018-06-18)

• Various bugfixes, expose $_jobname

3.3.8 (2018-06-18)

• SaveDataset: rename attribute filename to name.
• Hyperlinks within documents
• Allow bookmarks in dynamic table headers (Tr/sethead=‘yes’)
• XPath: fix comparison of elements and atomic values.

3.3.7 (2018-06-13)

• Text rotation in table cells (Td)

3.3.6 (2018-06-01)

• Bugfix in textformat/spacebelow (#171 )

3.3.5 (2018-05-30)

• New attribute minwidth to set the HSpace width.
• Various bug fixes (leaders in table, documentation links, space="..." with LoadFontfile)
• New xpath function local-name()
• HTML text now allows the em tag
• “New” color model RGB for values between 0 and 255
• Add language “French” to schema.

3.3.4 (2018-05-16)

• Bugfixes for ctrl-c when running sp (#167 ) and Output/balance=“yes”.

3.3.3 (2018-05-15)

• Bugfix: allow page format taken from the data source.
• Fix QR code generation.

3.3.2 (2018-04-20)

• Bugfix height calculation Output/Text and balance=“yes”

3.3.1 (2018-04-16)

• Balance: padding-bottom and valign on last page
• Output/Text balance=“yes” and textformat/column-padding-top

3.2

3.2.0 (2018-03-27)

• Release version 3.2.0

3.1

3.1.28 (2018-03-27)

• Documentation enhancements

3.1.27 (2018-03-23)

• Another bugfix with Tables

3.1.26 (2018-03-23)

• Bugfix with Tables (#166 )
• Bugfix with Ul/Li

3.1.25 (2018-03-20)

• Bugfix with XPath operators (#165 )
• Updated the German documentation

3.1.24 (2018-03-16)

• New feature: Table/balance=“yes”

3.1.23 (2018-03-14)

• Tr/minheight allows length units

3.1.22 (2018-03-09)

• PlaceObject: enhance absolute positioning
• SortSequence: allow descending sort
• More detailled setting of orphan/widow

3.1.21 (2018-02-16)

• Bugfix for multipage table
• New standard fonts

3.1.20 (2018-02-01)

• Lot’s of font improvements, first attempt to get chinese right

3.1.19 (2018-01-30)

• Allow setting of PDF title and author

3.1.18 (2018-01-29)

• Fix fontmapping problem

3.1.17 (2018-01-28)

• Report glyphs missing from a font
• exit=“yes” at Message to quit a publishing run

3.1.16 (2017-12-19)

• Allow other namespaces in Layout file
• Bugfix for FontFace

3.1.15 (2017-12-07)

• New command Span for background color

3.1.14 (2017-12-01)

• speedup

3.1.13 (2017-11-30)

• Use exeSufix for sp compare on Windows
• Bugfix for Output/allocate=“auto”

3.1.12 (2017-11-28)

• Bugfix for future pages

3.1.11 (2017-11-23)

• Add Excel reader and RelaxNG validaton
• Add basic support for LuaTeX 1.0.4

3.1.10 (2017-11-03)

• Enhance Lua CSV reader

3.1.9 (2017-10-31)

• New Lua based pre-processing

3.1.8 (2017-10-24)

• New xpath function round, padding-* in Column

3.1.7 (2017-10-22)

• Various bugfixes (Grid, Fontface)

3.1.6 (2017-09-27)

• Various bugfixes

3.1.5 (2017-09-08)

• New feature: DefineTextformat/tab=hspace change tab into a stretching space

3.1.4 (2017-09-06)

• Bugfix: Image/page does not work with href

3.1.3 (2017-08-22)

• New xpath function sd:dimexpr() for calculation with dimensions

3.1.2 (2017-07-31)

• Bugfix for underline.

3.1.1 (2017-07-28)

• ZUGFeRD integration, new commands AttachFile and AddSearchpath

3.0

3.0.0 (2017-07-25)

• Release version 3.0

2.9

2.9.15 (2017-07-12)

• Force pagetype if provided at NewPage, strip NL/Tab at beginning / end of paragraph.

2.9.14 (2017-06-27)

• Allow font-family setting in CSS for custom element.

2.9.13 (2017-06-27)

• Bugfix numerical entities in data. New: base64 decode, filecontents.

2.9.12 (2017-06-16)

• Bugfix PlaceObject/hreference=right and absolute positioning

2.9.11 (2017-05-18)

• Lazy evaluation of defaultcolor / Pagetype, minor bugfixes.

2.9.10 (2017-05-10)

• New command: Groupcontents to insert a group in a Td. Bugfix XPath parser, sd:current-framenumber().

2.9.9 (2017-05-08)

• Lazy evaluation of Grid in Pagetype (#130 ), bugfix nested tables (#129 ), improved Initials (color), bugfix cursor movement (#128 )

2.9.8 (2017-04-24)

• Bugfix XML attributes with quotation marks

2.9.7 (2017-04-16)

• New command Initial.

2.9.6 (2017-03-21)

• Enhancements on Image/bleed=“auto”, extra allocation margin on PlaceObject

2.9.5 (2017-03-09)

• Absolute positioning now allows allocate=“yes”.
• New internal variables _bleed, _pagewidth, _pageheight
• New attribute bleed="…" on Image.

2.9.4 (2017-02-24)

• Box with backgroundcolor="-" only allocates cells.

2.9.3 (2017-02-20)

• Bugfix resetmarks, new attribute defaultcolor on Pagetype, remove obsolete commands.

2.9.2 (2017-02-10)

• Bugfix for processing instructions in the XML file (will be ignored now)
• New feature: style <span> and other elemnts in data with CSS.

2.9.1 (2017-02-08)

• Bugfix: top-distance in Tr

2.8

2.8.1 (2017-02-06)

• Fix hotfolder (variable directory)

2.7

2.7.13 (2017-02-03)

• Use tempdir setting to calculate imagecache.

2.7.12 (2017-01-26)

• New command DefineFontalias
• Bugfixes for multipage tables

2.7.11 (2017-01-16)

• Makeindex: make page number attribute variable
• Bugfix: objects with ht > 0 and “jump to next row”
• Remove images from cache when 404.

2.7.10 (2017-01-06)

• Allow setting of error correction level for QR-codes.

2.7.9 (2016-11-28)

• allowbreak=" " does not break at a hyphen character anymore.
• NoBreak default is now ‘keeptogether’ which prevents a line break.

2.7.8 (2016-11-25)

• Change U+2011 (NON-BREAKING HYPHEN) to U+002D (HYPHEN-MINUS) and don’t insert a break.

2.7.7 (2016-10-21)

• Don’t clear image cache before first run

2.7.6 (2016-10-14)

• Better image cache - don’t re-load images during the same run.

2.7.5 (2016-10-12)

• New method for image caching. Rename Image/maxsize to visiblebox.

2.7.4 (2016-10-03)

• New command Trace for debugging selections. Remove show-* on Options.
• Behavior change with NextRow, remove command EmptyLine, compatibility switch with Compatibility.
• New Option: defaultarea.

2.7.3 (2016-09-14)

• New API /v0/statusfile/<id> to get the file publisher.status.

2.7.2 (2016-09-14)

• When PlaceObject goes past the right margin (for example in full width text), go to next row.

2.7.1 (2016-09-08)

• Fix error when fallback image is not found
• Emtpy attributes in Attribute don’t give a table value

2.7.0 (2016-08-18)

• Disable German layoutrules, bugfix (#104 ) distribution error

2.6

2.6.1 (2016-08-18)

• Bugfix for Mac and Linux ZIP files

2.5

2.5.13 (2016-08-10)

• Bugfix for large tables (> 200 pages?)

2.5.12 (2016-08-08)

• Bugfixes for paragraph shape, move LuaTeX binary to different directory

2.5.11 (2016-08-02)

• Add padding-* to Stylesheet, allow image styling with CSS (padding only), add padding-* to Image

2.5.10 (2016-08-02)

• Many improvements for Text/Output and allocate=“yes”
• Remove all German commands from the manual
• New attributes for Text: fontface, color and textformat
• Improvements to the documentation (spelling fixes), Language string “English (Great Britan)” corrected

2.5.9 (2016-07-06)

• Bugfix related to “jump to next area” and multipage table/

2.5.8 (2016-07-02)

• Bugfix get remaining height jumps to last line, even if “full”

2.5.7 (2016-06-25)

• Bugfix allocation on non-integer columns

2.5.6 (2016-06-25)

• Remove obsolete command ProcessRecord, add limit option for ProcessNode, bugfix Output/Text paragraph shape (#89 )

2.5.5 (2016-06-23)

• Various bugfixes / future objects and tables

2.5.4 (2016-06-20)

• Allow control over size of background-text in Td.

2.5.3 (2016-06-18)

• Include bugfixes from 2.4.4

2.5.2 (2016-06-13)

• (2.4.2) A few bugfixes related to sd:current-framenumber(), minheight in Textblock and looking for next free row.

2.5.1 (2016-06-10)

• Interpret <sub> and <sup> in data.
• Bugfix: pagetype and NewPage, version assertion in Layout tag

2.4

2.4.4 (2016-06-18)

• Various bugfixes: leaders disappear on a linebreak, Nobreak allows setting for font family, escape attribute contents, fix for bad images.

2.4.3 (2016-06-17)

• Bugfix related to an improper fix in 2.4.2 / find next free row for an object

2.4.2 (2016-06-13)

• A few bugfixes related to sd:current-framenumber(), minheight in Textblock and looking for next free row.

2.4.1 (2016-06-09)

• Bugfix: pagetype and NewPage, version assertion in Layout tag

2.4.0 (2016-06-07)

• Release version 2.4.0

2.3

2.3.77 (2016-06-06)

• Fallback filename for image (in case of image not found)

2.3.76 (2016-06-02)

• New API /v0/layout/<id> to get the layout.xml

2.3.75 (2016-05-31)

• New API /v0/data/<id> to get the data.xml
• Bugfix empty value should not make a space.

2.3.74 (2016-05-23)

• New API /v0/status to get all statuses

2.3.73 (2016-05-20)

• Allow frame number in sd:allocated()

2.3.72 (2016-04-28)

• Bugfix: element names with dash accpeted

2.3.71 (2016-04-28)

• New xpath function sd:allocated(x,y,name)

2.3.70 (2016-04-26)

• Messages can set error code on error

2.3.69 (2016-04-25)

• Bugfix indent and parshape with allocate=“auto”

2.3.68 (2016-04-08)

• Bugfix: API /v0/pdf/<id> must wait for the pdf file to finish. Error happens with mutliple runs

2.3.67 (2016-04-07)

• ForAll has a new attribute: start to give the starting point (default: 1)

2.3.66 (2016-04-05)

• Change mechanism on image wrapping, only partly enabled.

2.3.65 (2016-03-29)

• Various bugfixes with HTML output and Output/Text

2.3.64 (2016-03-21)

• Underline in data respects CSS style

2.3.63 (2016-03-18)

• Bufgfix line height calculation with Output/Text and allocation = auto

2.3.62 (2016-03-17)

• Various bugfixes: paragraph shape, server wait until run finished

2.3.61 (2016-03-14)

• New feature U/dashed=“yes”

2.3.60 (2016-03-14)

• Bugfix for HTML tables and sp –ignore-case / font files

2.3.59 (2016-02-24)

• Bugfix HTML tables

2.3.58 (2016-02-22)

• Experimental HTML tables

2.3.57 (2016-02-19)

• New sp option –ignore-case for case insensitive file loading

2.3.56 (2016-02-18)

• Bufgix Ouptut/allocate=“auto”

2.3.55 (2016-02-18)

• halign on PlaceObject
• Much better wrap around with Output allocate=“auto”.

2.3.54 (2016-02-08)

• New XPath function sd:randomitem(Value, Value, Value)

2.3.53 (2016-02-06)

• Nobreak allows to cut text with …
• PDF producer is set to LuaTeX, creator is set to speedata Publisher - version number
• Various bugfixes

2.3.52 (2016-01-21)

• Various bugfixes: multi paragraph Output with par shape, decode-html

2.3.51 (2016-01-18)

• Temporary directory configurable.

2.3.50 (2016-01-18)

• Dashed rules
• Leaders in HSpace

2.3.48 (2016-01-12)

• Server mode: id always start with a non-zero value.

2.3.47 (2016-01-11)

• New PDFOption Duplex

2.3.46 (2016-01-08)

• Vertical spacing between grid cells
• PDF options PrintScaling and PickTrayByPDFSize

2.3.45 (2015-12-18)

• API call /v0/status returns time stamp-

2.3.44 (2015-12-16)

• Write warnings to status file

2.3.43 (2015-12-15)

• Options / imagenotfound: error or warning

2.3.42 (2015-12-13)

• Access foo/@bar attributes on sub elements
• New shape: Circle

2.3.41 (2015-12-10)

• New xpath function substring()

2.3.40 (2015-12-08)

• Bugfix when reading a config file

2.3.39 (2015-12-07)

• Server mode honors jobname from publisher.cfg

2.3.38 (2015-11-30)

• New XPath function ‘string-length()’, bug fixes, prepare for LuaTeX 0.85

2.3.37 (2015-11-19)

• Bugfix for broken utf8/status file

2.3.36 (2015-11-19)

• Workaround for broken publisher.status file
• Table and vreference=bottom works.

2.3.35 (2015-11-06)

• Schematron rules in RelaxNG schema
• Image/href can omit file: scheme

2.3.34 (2015-11-04)

• Bugfix: configuration file requires end of line marker on last line

2.3.33 (2015-11-04)

• Possible bug fix with LoadDataset/Windows

2.3.32 (2015-09-18)

• Bugfix: height calculation in tables with row where break-below=no
• Much better table debugging with –trace
• Dynamic table heads can be removed
• Action / Mark can have multiple entries

2.3.31 (2015-09-12)

• New xpath function ‘contains()’

2.3.30 (2015-09-08)

• New API call /v0/delete/id to remove the publishing request
• New xpath function sd:keep-alternating() to re-use the current alternating value.

2.3.29 (2015-08-24)

• Bugfix with servermode on windows

2.3.28 (2015-08-11)

• Textblock can have a minimum height.
• Option crop can take a length.

2.3.27 (2015-08-07)

• Bugfix for Overlay command: Image can be stacked on another element.

2.3.26 (2015-08-07)

• New command Overlay to stack objects.

2.3.25 (2015-08-05)

• New command line option –extra-xml and new configuration option extraxml to add additional XML files to the layout instructions (similar to xinclude).
• New configuration option var to add variables.
• New server mode api parameter vars to send additional variables to the publishing process.
• New command line option –varsfile to define more variables.

2.3.24 (2015-06-26)

• Add option »trimmarks«, show the trim box when show-grid is turned on.

2.3.23 (2015-06-25)

• Bugfix width calculation in the grid

2.3.22 (2015-06-19)

• Bugfix with dx and nx in SetGrid

2.3.21 (2015-05-30)

• New option crop for pages with a tight cropbox.

2.3.20 (2015-04-21)

• Bugfix: width Table and Rule and grid distance

2.3.19 (2015-04-20)

• PositioningFrames can now use the current data ({@attrib} for example)
• Bugfix/workaround for an issue introduced in 2.3.18 in multi line Td cells.

2.3.18 (2015-04-08)

• Bugfixes: replace() and $1, $2, … / multi line <Td align=“center”>…</Td> contents

2.3.17 (2015-03-25)

• Experimental garbage collection, in effect with SetVariable.

2.3.16 (2015-03-11)

• Command NoBreak to disable a line break within.

2.3.15 (2015-03-09)

• API changes: make jobname configurable through parameter, better error messages.

2.3.14 (2015-03-04)

• Server-mode: /v0/pdf/<id> returns the PDF
• Server-mode: add timestamp for /v0/publish/<id>

2.3.12 (2015-02-27)

• New api call /available -> 200 OK, /v0/publish returns 201

2.3.11 (2015-02-26)

• Grid distance horizontal can be set.

2.3.10 (2015-02-25)

• Bugfix: index entry without contents crashes the publisher.

2.3.9 (2015-02-24)

• Bugfixes (sp server mode protocol file, infinite loop on malformed utf8 data)
• Empty attributes (attr="") are treated as nil. empty(@attr) now returns true().

2.3.8 (2015-02-21)

• Rotate (steps of 90°) for images
• New xpath function sd:aspectratio(‘imgname.png’)
• Simple if/then/else expressions in XPath

2.3.7 (2015-02-19)

• Background text for table cells (td)

2.3.6 (2015-02-12)

• publisher.status file contains the (error-)messages.

2.3.4 (2015-01-27)

• Bugfix: spot colors apply to stroking and non-stroking operations

2.3.3 (2015-01-26)

• Some CSS for rule, direct color definition.

2.3.2 (2015-01-22)

• New server mode for remote publishing.

2.2

2.1.36 (2015-01-15)

• Add all CSS level 3 colors (see https://www.w3.org/TR/css-color-3/ for a list)

2.1.35 (2014-12-19)

• Allow bookmarks on any level (experimental)

2.1.34 (2014-12-18)

• New function sd:attr() to access attribute with a dynamically constructed name.

2.1.32 (2014-12-01)

• XML parser / XInclude takes –extra-dir into account

2.1.28 (2014-11-11)

• Allow specification of hyphen char in textformat.

2.1.27 (2014-11-06)

• New example “mail merge”

2.1.26 (2014-10-29)

• New command: Frame. Can be used inside PlaceObject to frame an object.

2.1.23 (2014-10-13)

• Rounded corners on PlaceObject / Frame

2.1.22 (2014-10-09)

• Transformations can be nested inside PlaceObject

2.1.21 (2014-10-08)

• Custom spot colors
• Transformation origin for rotate and matrix (PlaceObject)

2.1.20 (2014-09-16)

• Copy-of copys does not destroy the underlying content.

2.1.18 (2014-09-09)

• A transformation matrix can be set on PlaceObject

2.1.16 (2014-08-22)

• Don’t break lines on / anymore, unless specified in allowbreaks="/".

2.1.15 (2014-08-18)

• Experimental server-mode (/v0/format)

2.1.14 (2014-08-15)

• Hyphenation = yes/no at DefineTextformat

2.1.13 (2014-08-12)

• Basic version of tokenize() and replace(), basic server mode.
• Colors can have overprinting enabled.
• Spot colors (PANTONE and HKS)

2.1.12 (2014-07-25)

• New command »Color« to switch to a different text color in text.

2.1.10 (2014-07-03)

• Change behaviour of allowbreak=".." at Paragraph. Space must be made explicit.
• New xpath function sd:dummytext() and sd:loremipsum() for a sample text (lorem ipsum)

2.1.9 (2014-06-27)

• XInclude rebirth

2.1.8 (2014-06-24)

• Extend table rows (Tr) to re-use as table header.
• Merge pagenumbers now accept page ranges.

2.1.7 (2014-06-06)

• Bugfix for table in table and alignment. align=“right” didn’t work.

2.1.6 (2014-06-05)

• Experimental option ‘allowbreak’ on Paragraph to provide a list of characters where line break may occur.
• sp –quiet for console-less output
• Parallelise sp compare for much better performance.

2.1.5 (2014-05-28)

• Bugfix table cells with align=center and a fixed width.

2.1.3 (2014-05-20)

• Allow hyphenation in the second word in compound words such as longword-anotherlongword. Also enable line breaks after “/”

2.1.1 (2014-05-19)

• New implemtation of paragraph splitting, should be completely backward compatible.

2.1.0 (2014-05-15)

• New behaviour of contents in table cells (Td). The rules of HTML (see https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Block-level_elements - HTML block elements) are followed as far as possible.