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<a name="quickbook.change_log.version_1_3"></a><h4>
<a name="id3237264"></a>
<a class="link" href="change_log.html#quickbook.change_log.version_1_3">Version 1.3</a>
</h4>
<div class="itemizedlist"><ul class="itemizedlist" type="disc">
<li class="listitem">
Quickbook file inclusion [include].
</li>
<li class="listitem">
Better xml output (pretty layout). Check out the generated XML.
</li>
<li class="listitem">
Regression testing facility: to make sure your document will always be
compatible (full backward compatibility) regardless of changes to QuickBook.
</li>
<li class="listitem">
Code cleanup and refactoring.
</li>
<li class="listitem">
Allow phrase markup in the doc-info.
</li>
<li class="listitem">
Preformatted code blocks via ``code`` (double ticks) allows code in tables
and lists, for example.
</li>
<li class="listitem">
Quickbook versioning; allows full backward compatibility. You have to add
[quickbook 1.3] to the doc-info header to enable the new features. Without
this, QuickBook will assume that the document is a pre-1.3 document.
</li>
<li class="listitem">
Better (intuitive) paragraph termination. Some markups may terminate a
paragraph. Example:
<pre class="programlisting"><span class="special">[</span><span class="identifier">section</span> <span class="identifier">x</span><span class="special">]</span>
<span class="identifier">blah</span><span class="special">...</span>
<span class="special">[</span><span class="identifier">endsect</span><span class="special">]</span></pre>
</li>
<li class="listitem">
Fully qualified section and headers. Subsection names are concatenated
to the ID to avoid clashing. Example: <code class="computeroutput"><span class="identifier">doc_name</span><span class="special">.</span><span class="identifier">sect_name</span><span class="special">.</span><span class="identifier">sub_sect_name</span><span class="special">.</span><span class="identifier">sub_sub_sect_name</span></code>
</li>
<li class="listitem">
Better &amp;nbsp; and whitespace handling in code snippets.
</li>
<li class="listitem">
[xinclude] fixes up the relative path to the target XML file when input_directory
is not the same as the output_directory.
</li>
<li class="listitem">
Allow untitled tables.
</li>
<li class="listitem">
Allow phrase markups in section titles.
</li>
<li class="listitem">
Allow escaping back to QuickBook from code, code blocks and inline code.
</li>
<li class="listitem">
Footnotes, with the [footnote This is the footnote] syntax.
</li>
<li class="listitem">
Post-processor bug fix for escaped XML code that it does not recognize.
</li>
<li class="listitem">
Replaceable, with the [~replacement] syntax.
</li>
</ul></div>
<a name="quickbook.change_log.version_1_4"></a><h4>
<a name="id3237512"></a>
<a class="link" href="change_log.html#quickbook.change_log.version_1_4">Version 1.4</a>
</h4>
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Generic Headers
</li>
<li class="listitem">
Code changes to allow full recursion (i.e. Collectors and push/pop functions)
</li>
<li class="listitem">
Various code cleanup/maintenance
</li>
<li class="listitem">
Templates!
</li>
<li class="listitem">
[conceptref] for referencing BoostBook &lt;concept&gt; entities.
</li>
<li class="listitem">
Allow escape of spaces. The escaped space is removed from the output. Syntax:
<code class="computeroutput"><span class="special">\</span> </code>.
</li>
<li class="listitem">
Nested comments are now allowed.
</li>
<li class="listitem">
Quickbook blocks can nest inside comments.
</li>
<li class="listitem">
<a class="link" href="syntax.html#quickbook.syntax.block.import" title="Import">Import</a> facility.
</li>
<li class="listitem">
Callouts on imported code
</li>
<li class="listitem">
Simple markups can now span a whole block.
</li>
<li class="listitem">
<a class="link" href="syntax.html#quickbook.syntax.block.blurbs" title="Blurbs">Blurbs</a>, <a class="link" href="syntax.html#quickbook.syntax.block.admonitions" title="Admonitions">Admonitions</a>
and table cells (see <a class="link" href="syntax.html#quickbook.syntax.block.tables" title="Tables">Tables</a>)
may now contain paragraphs.
</li>
<li class="listitem">
<code class="computeroutput"><span class="special">\</span><span class="identifier">n</span></code>
and <code class="computeroutput"><span class="special">[</span><span class="identifier">br</span><span class="special">]</span></code> are now deprecated.
</li>
<li class="listitem">
<a class="link" href="syntax.html#quickbook.syntax.phrase.cond" title="Conditional Generation">Conditional Generation</a>.
Ala C++ #ifdef.
</li>
<li class="listitem">
Searching of included and imported files in an extensible search path with
<code class="computeroutput"><span class="special">--</span><span class="identifier">include</span><span class="special">-</span><span class="identifier">path</span></code>
(<code class="computeroutput"><span class="special">-</span><span class="identifier">I</span></code>)
option.
</li>
</ul></div>
<a name="quickbook.change_log.version_1_5"></a><h4>
<a name="id3237770"></a>
<a class="link" href="change_log.html#quickbook.change_log.version_1_5">Version 1.5</a>
</h4>
<div class="itemizedlist"><ul class="itemizedlist" type="disc">
<li class="listitem">
Support multiple copyright entrys in document info.
</li>
<li class="listitem">
Improved SVG support.
</li>
<li class="listitem">
[globalref] for referencing BoostBook &lt;global&gt; entities.
</li>
<li class="listitem">
Fail on error.
</li>
<li class="listitem">
Fix crash for templates with too many arguments or trailing space.
</li>
<li class="listitem">
Improved handling of unexpected characters in code blocks.
</li>
<li class="listitem">
Improved handling of unmatched escape in code blocks.
</li>
<li class="listitem">
Support for python snippets.
</li>
<li class="listitem">
<code class="computeroutput"><span class="identifier">teletype</span></code> source mode.
</li>
<li class="listitem">
Use static scoping in templates, should be a lot more intuitive.
</li>
<li class="listitem">
Accept a space between <code class="computeroutput"><span class="identifier">section</span><span class="special">:</span></code> and the section id.
</li>
<li class="listitem">
Support table ids.
</li>
</ul></div>
<a name="quickbook.change_log.version_1_5_1___boost_1_43_0"></a><h4>
<a name="id3237906"></a>
<a class="link" href="change_log.html#quickbook.change_log.version_1_5_1___boost_1_43_0">Version 1.5.1
- Boost 1.43.0</a>
</h4>
<div class="itemizedlist"><ul class="itemizedlist" type="disc">
<li class="listitem">
Improve the post processor's list of block elements. <code class="computeroutput"><span class="identifier">table</span></code>,
<code class="computeroutput"><span class="identifier">entry</span></code> and <code class="computeroutput"><span class="identifier">varlistentry</span></code> are treated as blocks.
<code class="computeroutput"><span class="identifier">replaceable</span></code> is treated
as an inline element.
</li>
<li class="listitem">
Check that <code class="computeroutput"><span class="special">[</span><span class="identifier">section</span><span class="special">]</span></code> and <code class="computeroutput"><span class="special">[</span><span class="identifier">endsect</span><span class="special">]</span></code>
tags are balanced in templates.
</li>
<li class="listitem">
Add unicode escape characters, eg. <code class="computeroutput"><span class="special">\</span><span class="identifier">u03B1</span></code> for &#945;.
</li>
<li class="listitem">
Support UTF-8 files with a unicode byte order mark.
</li>
<li class="listitem">
Disallow <code class="computeroutput"><span class="special">[</span></code> in simple markup.
Fixes some errors with mismatched punctuation.
</li>
<li class="listitem">
Add command line flag to define macros at the command line, e.g. <code class="computeroutput"><span class="identifier">quickbook</span> <span class="string">"-D__italic_foo__=/foo/"</span></code>.
</li>
</ul></div>
<a name="quickbook.change_log.version_1_5_2___boost_1_44_0"></a><h4>
<a name="id3238088"></a>
<a class="link" href="change_log.html#quickbook.change_log.version_1_5_2___boost_1_44_0">Version 1.5.2
- Boost 1.44.0</a>
</h4>
<div class="itemizedlist"><ul class="itemizedlist" type="disc">
<li class="listitem">
Use the cygwin 1.7 API for better path handling.
</li>
<li class="listitem">
<p class="simpara">
Improved boostbook generation:
</p>
<div class="itemizedlist"><ul class="itemizedlist" type="circle">
<li class="listitem">
XML encode the documentation info correctly.
</li>
<li class="listitem">
Avoid generating empty paragraphs.
</li>
<li class="listitem">
No longer wraps block templates in paragraphs.
</li>
<li class="listitem">
Warns if you use invalid doc_info members for docbook document types.
</li>
<li class="listitem">
Fixes some other causes of invalid boostbook, although it still generates
invalid boostbook in places.
</li>
</ul></div>
</li>
<li class="listitem">
<p class="simpara">
Improved grammar:
</p>
<div class="itemizedlist"><ul class="itemizedlist" type="circle">
<li class="listitem">
Supports multiple categories in library doc_info.
</li>
<li class="listitem">
No longer requires commas between authors in docinfo.
</li>
<li class="listitem">
Allows empty document bodies.
</li>
<li class="listitem">
A line containing only a comment is no longer interpreted as a paragraph
break.
</li>
<li class="listitem">
If a line starts with a comment, interpret it as a paragraph even if
it's followed by whitespace or a list character.
</li>
<li class="listitem">
Doesn't treat several consecutive blank lines as multiple paragraph
breaks.
</li>
</ul></div>
</li>
<li class="listitem">
Fixes duplicate image attribute detection.
</li>
<li class="listitem">
Fixes using code snippets more than once.
</li>
<li class="listitem">
<p class="simpara">
Early work on quickbook 1.6, available using the <code class="computeroutput"><span class="special">[</span><span class="identifier">quickbook</span> <span class="number">1.6</span><span class="special">]</span></code> version switch, but liable to change in
future versions.
</p>
<div class="itemizedlist"><ul class="itemizedlist" type="circle">
<li class="listitem">
When automatically generating ids for headers, use the quickbook source,
rather than the generated docbook.
</li>
<li class="listitem">
Fix id generation in included files. It wasn't correctly using the
main document's documentation id.
</li>
<li class="listitem">
Correctly restore the quickbook version switch after including a file
with a different version.
</li>
</ul></div>
</li>
</ul></div>
<a name="quickbook.change_log.version_1_5_3___boost_1_45_0"></a><h4>
<a name="id3238309"></a>
<a class="link" href="change_log.html#quickbook.change_log.version_1_5_3___boost_1_45_0">Version 1.5.3
- Boost 1.45.0</a>
</h4>
<div class="itemizedlist"><ul class="itemizedlist" type="disc">
<li class="listitem">
Fix command line flag for defining macros.
</li>
<li class="listitem">
<p class="simpara">
Fix a couple of issues with the code block parser:
</p>
<div class="itemizedlist"><ul class="itemizedlist" type="circle">
<li class="listitem">
A comment with no indentation will now end a code block.
</li>
<li class="listitem">
Code blocks no longer have to be followed by a blank line.
</li>
</ul></div>
</li>
<li class="listitem">
Improved tracking of file position in templates and imported code blocks.
</li>
<li class="listitem">
Better generated markup for callout lists.
</li>
<li class="listitem">
In docbook, variable list entries can only have one <code class="computeroutput"><span class="identifier">listitem</span></code>,
so if an entry has multiple values, merge them into one <code class="computeroutput"><span class="identifier">listitem</span></code>.
</li>
<li class="listitem">
Support nested code snippets.
</li>
<li class="listitem">
Support nested blocks in document info comments.
</li>
<li class="listitem">
Revert xml escaping document info, it broke some documentation files (now
a 1.6 feature).
</li>
<li class="listitem">
<p class="simpara">
Further work on quickbook 1.6, still not stable.
</p>
<div class="itemizedlist"><ul class="itemizedlist" type="circle">
<li class="listitem">
Allow heading to have ids, using the syntax: <code class="computeroutput"><span class="special">[</span><span class="identifier">heading</span><span class="special">:</span><span class="identifier">id</span> <span class="identifier">title</span><span class="special">]</span></code>.
</li>
<li class="listitem">
XML escape documentation fields, with escapes to allow encoding unicode
in ASCII.
</li>
</ul></div>
</li>
</ul></div>
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