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- Subject: [ANN] SILE 0.9.2 is released
- From: Simon Cozens <simon@...>
- Date: Wed, 03 Jun 2015 08:01:52 +0900
SILE is a typesetting system written (almost) entirely in Lua. See
http://www.sile-typesetter.org/
Version 0.9.2 of SILE has been released and is [available for download][1].
## Version 0.9.2 (2015-06-03)
* New packages for: rotated content, accessing OpenType features and
ligatures, alternative input of Unicode characters, PDF bookmarks and
links, input transformation.
* Packages to help with typesetting chord sheets and bibles.
* Experimental packages for bibliography management, typesetting URLs,
Japanese vertical typesetting, balanced columns, and best-fit page breaking.
* Support for quoted strings in the parameters to TeX-like commands.
* Language support: Many fixes to Arabic; support for Tibetan and
Kannada; hyphenation for many languages; much improved bidirectional
typesetting.
* Warn when frames are overfull.
* Support for older versions of autotools, for Lua 5.3 and mingw32
environments.
* Continuous integration and testing framework
* Fixes to long-standing bugs in grid support, centering, ligatures,
insertions and page breaking.
* Better font handling and substitution.
* Valid PDFs will still be generated on error/interruption.
* Improved error handling and error messages.
* Many miscellaneous bug fixes.
[1]: https://github.com/simoncozens/sile/releases/tag/v0.9.2