CTAN package update: gellmu, version 0.8.3

William F Hammond wrote: > I've uploaded version 0.8.3 (23 Oct 06) of the GELLMU tarball to > ftp.tex.ac.uk. > > GELLMU stands for "Generalized Extensible LaTeX-Like MarkUp". > > The package includes software for an XML document type (which may be > written in LaTeX-like markup) that emulates much of LaTeX article > while admitting robust translation to XHTML+MathML. > > I suggest that it be placed in "support/gellmu". > > License: GPL > > This supersedes version 0.8.2.3 (25 May 06). > > It contains an important change for generating XHTML+MathML content > that has been made necessary by a mid-September (2006) revision in > Firefox and other Mozilla browsers. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > CHANGES IN GELLMU, VERSION 0.8.3 (23 Oct 2006) > > IMPORTANT change necessitated by change in Firefox and other Mozilla > browsers: > > This update is mandatory for those who wish their XHTML+MathML outputs > to function properly in Mozilla. Because of a mid-September 2006 > change in Mozilla with the handling of equations and arrays of > equations, previously generated XHTML+MathML outputs will need to be > rebuilt. > > This release also has reduced use of XML namespace switching in the > XHTML+MathML outputs for the sake of greater compatibilty with > browsers that do not recognize it. > > The XML side door: > > The largest change in this update release concerns "Regular GELLMU" > (the didactic production system described in the GELLMU Manual). The > standard translation pipeline leading from LaTeX-like source through > SGML and XML document types to (1) LaTeX source (hence DVI and PDF > outputs), (2) classical HTML output with pseudo-TeX math, and (3) > XHTML with MathML output has been modified to capture along the way a > variant of the XML document type that is reusable as XML source. > Subsequent pipeline processing proceeds from that point with end > results equivalent to those in earlier releases. > > The new variant of the XML document type may be regarded as a > full-featured author level XML document type. It is usable and > modifiable by authors who choose to write XML syntax rather than the > LaTeX-like equivalent. > > The new author level variant of the XML document type is a suitable > target for translation from other XML document types, and therefore, > could provide an alternative way to format other document types for > PDF, HTML, and XHTML+MathML. > > Beyond that document instances under the new author level variant of > the XML document type should usually be "stand-alone" instances that > are suitable for semi-formatted viewing through the web with CSS > styling. They cannot be fully formatted because, for example, > numbering has not been inserted, and cross-references have not been > resolved. > > A consequence of having the XML side door is that the automatically > formatted LaTeX files will tend to have very long lines. > > Driver Scripts: > > For the regular GELLMU main track use the driver script "mmkg" to > build from regular GELLMU source. One should use the new driver > script "mmkgfromx" to build from XML source under the document type > defined in the DTD file "xml/axgellmu.dtd". (This DTD file lives > under the UTF-8 text encoding though presently only one little-used > element name is non-ASCII, and that name admits Latin-1 representation.) > > Windows XP Support: > > In the case of a recently acquired (August 2006) ``notebook'' > class computer with ``Windows XP, Home Edition'', it was found after > (1) installing Cygwin, (2) then installing Cygwin packages for GNU Emacs, > Perl, Tcsh, TeX and LaTeX, OpenSP/OpenJade, and Expat (for the important > and basic "xmlwf" utility), and (3) making sure that all of the > appropriate executables are in one's command path (within Cygwin), > that the GELLMU tarball drops easily into "/usr/local/gellmu" (Cygwin > filesystem hierarchy), and the Linux driver scripts may be used. i have indeed placed the new version in support/gellmu; thanks for the upload. users who want to view the package, or to download it, may do so via the catalogue entry http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/gellmu.html Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team