CHANGES.rst

Release History

Release 0.4.3.dev

New Features:

• Table column widths can be specified in the style sheet, which take effect when these haven't been specified in the source document.
• The page_break style attribute is no longer reserved for sections; a page break can be forced before any flowable.
• It's now possible to add arbitrary sections to the front/back matter by adding a container with the 'supporting-matter' class and a name to reference it by in the document template configuration, e.g. in the list of front matter flowables (to be documented).
• Selectors in style sheet files (.rts) now support boolean and 'None' values. For example, you can select StaticGroupedFlowables based on whether they have any children or not: e.g TableCell(empty=true) selects empty table cells.

Fixed:

• items inside a table cannot be referenced (issue #174)
• Sphinx frontend: fix handling of relative image paths in .rst files inside a directory in the Sphinx project root

Release 0.4.2 (2020-07-28)

New Features:

• before/after style attributes for StyledText (issue #158)
• docutils/Sphinx frontend: don't abort on encountering math/math_block, output the (LaTeX) math markup instead, along with printing a warning.
• docutils frontend: raw inline text (with :format: 'rinoh') is parsed as styled text

Fixed:

• crash when the 'contents' topic has multiple IDs (issue #173)
• loading of the references cache (issue #170)
• some issues with space_below handling

Release 0.4.1 (2020-07-01)

New Features:

• UserStrings: arbitrary user-defined strings that can be defined in the template configuration or as a substitution definition in reStructuredText
• strings in a StringCollection can now be styled text
• Sphinx frontend: use the today and today_fmt configuration variables for the date on the title page
• Sphinx frontend: allow extensions access to the builder object (issue #155)
• rinoh: --output writes the output PDF to a specified location

Fixed:

• Regression in handling images that don't fit on the current page (issue #153)
• Fix crash when rendering local table of contents (issue #160)
• Sphinx frontend: support code-block/literalinclude with caption (issue #128)
• rinoh: variables set in a template configuration file are sometimes ignored (issue #164)
• Crash when using a font that contains unsupported lookups (issue #141)

Release 0.4.0 (2020-03-05)

New Features:

• automatically generated lists of figures and tables
• paragraphs now provide default tab stops (proportional to font size) for indentation
• stylesheet (.rts) and template configuration (.rtt) files now support specifying inline and background images (#107 and #108); to be documented
• it is now possible to specify selector priority (+-) in style sheets
• Sphinx frontend: the rinoh builder can be discovered by entry point (no more need to add 'rinoh.frontend.sphinx' to the list of extensions)
• rinoh: set a return code of 1 when one or more referenced images could not be found (issue #104)
• rinoh: introduce the --install-resources option to control the automatic installation of resources from PyPI
• German locale (contributed by Michael Kaiser)
• Polish locale (contributed by Mariusz Jamro)

Changed:

• Python 3.3 & 3.4 are no longer supported since they have reached end-of-life
• remove the dependency on purepng by embedding its png.py
• limit the width of images to the available width by default
• XML frontend: special case mixed content nodes
• fixes in the design of stylesheet/template code

Fixed:

• various regressions (PR #142 by Norman Lorrain)
• fix issues with variables defined in a base style sheet/template config
• various footnote rendering issues
• border width is also taken into account for flowables that are continued on a new page (#127)
• Sphinx: handle case when source_suffix is a list (PR #110 by Nick Barrett)
• incompatibility with Sphinx 1.6.1+ (latex_paper_size)
• docutils: crash when a footnote is defined in an admonition (issue #95)
• docutils: crash on encountering a raw text role (issue #99)
• docutils: 'decoration' node (header/footer) is not yet supported (issue #112)
• crash when a table cell contains (only) an image
• colours of PNG images with gamma (gAMA chunk) set are incorrect (#102)
• Sphinx: image paths with wildcard extension are not supported (#119)
• GroupedFlowables: space_below should only be considered at the end
• adapt to PEP 479 (Change StopIteration handling inside generators), the default in Python 3.7 (issue #133)
• fix compatibility with Python 3.6.7 and 3.7.1 (tokenizer changes)
• fix crash caused by Python 3.8's changes to int.__str__

Release 0.3.1 (2016-12-19)

New Features:

• rinoh is now also available as a stand-alone application for both Windows (installer) and macOS (app); they include an embedded CPython installation
• index terms can be StyledText now (in addition to str)
• the 'document author' metadata entry can now be displayed using a Field
• Sphinx frontend: support the 'desc_signature_line' node (new in Sphinx 1.5)
• rinoh --docs: open the online documentation in the default browser

Changed:

• more closely mimic the Sphinx LaTeX builder's title page (issue #60)
• there is no default for PageTemplate.chapter_title_flowables anymore since they are specific to the document template

Fixed:

• handle StyledText metadata (such as document title)
• Sphinx frontend: support the 'autosummary_toc' node
• DummyFlowable now sticks to the flowable following it (keep_with_next), so that (1) it does not break this behavior of Heading preceding it, and (2) IndexTargets do not get separated from the following flowable
• bug in LabeledFlowable that broke keep_with_next behavior
• the descender size of the last flowable in a GroupedFlowables with keep_with_next=True was getting lost
• GroupedFlowables should not mark the page non-empty; this caused empty pages before the first chapter if it is preceded by grouped DummyFlowables

Release 0.3.0 (2016-11-23)

New Features:

• support localization of standard document strings (en, fr, it, nl) (#53)
• localized strings can be overridden in the document template configuration
• make use of a fallback typeface when a glyph is not available (#55) (the 'fallback' style in the Sphinx stylesheet sets the fallback typeface)
• template configuration (INI) files: specify which document parts to include, configure document part and page templates, customize localized strings, ...
• support specifying more complex selectors directly in a style sheet file
• (figure and table) captions support hierarchical numbering (see CaptionStyle)
• make the frontends independent of the current working directory
• reStructuredText: support the table :widths: option (upcoming docutils 0.13)
• Sphinx frontend: provide styles for Sphinx's inline markup roles
• rinoh (command line renderer):
  • support template configuration files
  • support file formats for which a frontend is installed (see --list-formats)
  • accept options to configure the frontend (see --list-options)
  • option to list the installed fonts (on the command line or in a PDF file)
• show the current page number as part of the rendering progress indicator
• Book template: support for setting a cover page
• frontends: raise a more descriptive exception when a document tree node is not mapped
• validate the default value passed to an Attribute
• preliminary support for writing a style sheet to an INI file, listing default values for non-specified attributes (#23)

Changed:

• rinoh: the output PDF is now placed in the current directory, not in the same directory as the input file
• Sphinx builder configuration: replace the rinoh_document_template and rinoh_template_configuration options with rinoh_template
• if no base is given for a style, style attribute lookup proceeds to look in the style of the same name in the base style sheet (#66)
• DEFAULT_STYLE can be used as a base style to prevent style attribute lookup in the style of the same name in the base style sheet
• rename FieldList to DefinitionList and use it to replace uses (docutils and Sphinx frontends) of the old DefinitionList (#54)
• the new DefinitionList (FieldList) can be styled like the old DefinitionList by setting max_label_width to None, 0 or a 0-valued Dimension
• figures are now non-floating by default (float placement needs more work)
• hide the index chapter when there are no index entries (#51)
• style sheets: use the default matcher if none is specified
• Sphinx style sheet: copy the admonition style from the Sphinx LaTeX builder
• Sphinx style sheet: keep the admonition title together with the body
• Sphinx style sheet: color linked references as in the LaTeX output (#62)
• Sphinx style sheet: disable hyphenation/ligatures for literal strong text
• no more DocumentSection; a document now consists of parts (containing pages)
• template configuration:
  • refer to document part templates by name so that they can be replaced
  • the list of document parts can be changed in the template configuration
  • document parts take the 'end_at_page' option (left, right, or any)
  • find (left/right) page templates via the document part name they belong to
  • fall back to <doc_part>_page when the right or left template is not found
  • each template configuration requires a name
• DocumentTree: make the source_file argument optional
• don't abort when the document section hierarchy is missing levels (#67)
• use the PDF backend by default (no need to specify it)
• store the unit with Dimension instances (better printing)
• rename the float module to image

Fixed:

• improve compatibility with Windows: Windows path names and file encoding
• crash if a StyledText is passed to HeadingStyle.number_separator
• GroupedLabeledFlowables label width could be unnecessarily wide
• fix and improve automatic table column sizing
• Figures can now be referenced using the 'reference' format ("Figure 1.2")
• HorizontallyAlignedFlowable: make more robust
• make document elements referenceable by secondary IDs
• reStructuredText: only the first classifier for a definition term was shown
• Sphinx frontend: support the 'centered' directive
• Sphinx frontend: basic support for the 'hlist' directive
• Sphinx frontend: handle :abbr: without explanation
• Sphinx frontend: support nested inline nodes (guilabel & samp roles)
• PDF backend: fix writing of Type 1 fonts from a parsed PDF file
• PDF reader: handle multi-page PDFs (#71)
• PDF reader: fix parsing of XRef streams
• PDF reader: fix writing of parsed files

Release 0.2.1 (2016-08-18)

New Features:

• optionally limit the width of large images and make use of this to simulate the Sphinx LaTeX builder behavior (#46)
• reStructuredText/Sphinx: support for images with hyperlinks (#49)
• record the styled page numbers in the PDF as page labels (#41)
• unsupported Python versions: prevent installation where possible (sdist) or exit on import (wheel)
• support Python 3.6

Bugfixes:

• make StyleSheet objects picklable so the Sphinx builder's rinoh_stylesheet option can actually be used
• Fix #47: ClassNotFound exception in Literal_Block.lexer_getter()
• Fix #45: Images that don't fit are still placed on the page
• don't warn about duplicate style matches that resolve to the same style

Release 0.2.0 (2016-08-10)

Styling:

• generate a style log (show matching styles) to help style sheet development
• keep_with_next style attribute: prevent splitting two flowables across pages
• stylesheets can be loaded from files in INI format
• check the type of attributes passed to styles
• source code highlighting using Pygments
• table of contents entries can be styled more freely
• allow hiding the section numbers of table of contents entries
• allow for custom chapter titles
• selectors can now also select based on document part/section
• various small tweaks to selectors and matchers
• various fixes relating to style sheets

Templates:

• configurable standard document templates: article and book
• a proper infrastructure for creating custom document templates
• support for left/right page templates
• make the Article template more configurable
• pages now have background, content and header/footer layers
• support for generating an index
• make certain strings configurable (for localization, for example)

Frontends:

• Sphinx: interpret the LaTeX configuration variables if the corresponding rinohtype variable is not set
• Sphinx: roughly match the LaTeX output (document template and style sheet)
• added a CommonMark frontend based on recommonmark
• added basic ePUB and DocBook frontends
• XML frontends: fix whitespace handling
• frontends now return generators yielding flowables (more flexible)

Command-line Renderer (rinoh):

• allow specifying a template and style sheet
• automatically install typefaces used in the style sheet from PyPI

Fonts:

• typefaces are discovered/loaded by entry point
• more complete support for OpenType fonts
• fix support for the 14 base Type 1 fonts

Images:

• more versatile image sizing: absolute width/height & scaling
• allow specifying the baseline for inline images
• several fixes in the JPEG reader

Miscellaneous:

• reorganize the Container class hierarchy
• fixes in footnote handling
• drop Python 3.2 support (3.3, 3.4 and 3.5 are supported)

Release 0.1.3 (2015-08-04)

• recover from the slow rendering speed caused by a bugfix in 0.1.2 (thanks to optimized element matching in the style sheets)
• other improvements and bugfixes related to style sheets

Release 0.1.2 (2015-07-31)

• much improved Sphinx support (we can now render the Sphinx documentation)
• more complete support for reStructuredText (docutils) elements
• various fixes related to footnote placement
• page break option when starting a new section
• fixes in handling of document sections and parts
• improvements to section/figure/table references
• native support for PNG and JPEG images (drops PIL/Pillow requirement, but adds PurePNG 0.1.1 requirement)
• new 'sphinx' stylesheet used by the Sphinx builder (~ Sphinx LaTeX style)
• restores Python 3.2 compatibility

Release 0.1.1 (2015-04-12)

First preview release