DocBook NG: The “Jägermeister” and “IPA” Releases

Volume 8, Issue 52; 08 Apr 2005; last modified 08 Oct 2010

This release includes a couple of new elements and all the changes I forgot to announce in “IPA”.

This is the tenth release of DocBook NG. (Somehow I forgot to write an essay for the ninth release, “IPA”, though happily it didn't go unnoticed.)

In the interest of completeness, the user-visible changes in the “IPA” release were:

Added citerefentry and citebiblioid to the list of elements that can appear in bibliography entries; removed titleabbrev.
Reduced the content model of a bunch of inlines (command and others that were way to broad).
Added link, xref, superscript, and subscript to the list of “ubiquitous” inlines.
Added date to the list of publishing inlines.
Added some inlines to computeroutput and userinput.
Added some new exclusions (preventing admonitions and formal objects from being nested; removing some of the same from footnote).
Removed the highlights element. A candidate for the role attribute if I ever saw one.
Fixed bug that didn't allow sect1 in article when numbered sections are included.

The user-visible changes in “Jägermeister” are:

Added mathphrase for simple equations.
Added termdef for inline term definitions.
The constraints on spanname, colname, namest, and nameend where tightened. This should prevent some illogical if not strictly illegal combinations.

Comments

Your IPA announcement didn't go unnoticed from me either! :-) http://shudson310.blogspot.com/2005/02/time-for-ipa.html

Keep up the good work! I've even been using the Simplified IPA version you sent me, in conjunction with XML Hack #78!

I'm planning to publish Jägermeister versions of Simplified and perhaps the other doctypes next week. But first I need to fix the bugs you pointed out and clean up a few things.