DAPS 2.0~beta2

Bugfixes:

• two fixes for package-html and package-pdf:
  • #207 package-pdf and package-html should support...
  • #208 package-html --jsp is broken

DAPS 2.0~beta1

Output targets:

• the number of subcommands has been significantly reduced, see daps --commands, daps help and daps help <SUBCOMMAND> for more information
• html-single has been replaced by html --single
• jsp has been replaced with html --jsp
• color-pdf has been replaced by pdf (now produces color PDFS)
• pdf has been replaced by pdf --grayscale --cropmarks
• projectfiles and projectgraphics have been replaced with list-srcfiles (see daps help list-srcfiles for more options)
• all dist-* commands have been removed
• when calling deprecated targets, an error message hinting at a valid alternative (is existing) is shown
• subcommand bigfile now generates a bigfile for the given rootid (rather than for the complate set); target bigfile-reduced has been dropped
• subbcommands package-pdf and package-html now have switches - -dcoumentfiles, --desktopfiles and --pagefiles which generate the resource files for GNOME and KDE
• new subcommands
  *clean-package removes all generated package data for the given DC-file. Generated images and profiled sources will not be deleted.
  • dapsenv shows a list of the most important make variables and their values
  • images generates images only for a given rootid. Intended for debugging purposes
  • package-src (creates a tarball with profiled XML sources and images); switch --set-date allows to specify a build date (default date is "now")
  • list-file lists the filename that contains the ID specified with the mandatory paramater --rootid
  • commands shows all available subcommands
• ePUB generation has been completely rewritten (pure make solution, no longer uses the ruby script from upstream); generated ePUBs now validate with epubcheck3.
• added support for .mobi (Amzon Kindle format). Requires calibre. (issue #98)
• replaced support for HTML4 with support for HTML5 (--html5) xhtml remains the default, html4 is no longer supported
• to nullify a CSS-file definition for HTML or EPUB (HTML_CSS or EPUB_CSS) from the DC-file, specify --css none

Miscellaneous:

• now supports XSLT processor saxon6 (in addition to xsltproc), specify with --xsltprocessor (default: xsltproc)
• improved verbosity handling
  • if output is not a terminal (e.g. pipe) only prints the resulting filename (-v0)
  • default verbosity shows a result message plus filename (-v1)
  • -v2 shows additional messages
  • -v3 shows the complete make output from make -j1 (commands are executed successively, not parallel)
  • --debug shows the complete make output from make -j1+x (commands are executed parallel; this also shows in the debug output)
• added support for JPG images (issue #101)
• added support for a "static/" directory in STYLEROOT containing css, js and images that are reference in the CSS and the stylesheets for HTML
• if the XML sources are not well-formed, a meaningful error message is shown
• xsltparameters have to be submitted as --param PARAM=VALUE or - -stringparam PARAM=VALUE (the "=" is mandatory, used to be a "space" with DAPS 1.x)
• output formats are only re-generated when the source files (xml, entity files or images) have changed. To force a rebuild run DAPS with --force or run a suitable clean command
• added switches --author and --productname to daps-init

Config file changes:

• New config file variables:
  • CONVERT_OPTS_JPG: command-line options for "convert" for converting jpg images to grayscale
  • FOP_STACKSIZE: set stacksize for fop (issue #82)
  • META, META_STR: permanently run html and PDF builds with - -meta
  • STATIC_DIR: custom static directory
  • XML_USER_CATALOGS: add custom catalogs to XML_CATALOG_FILES (issue #99)
  • XSLTPROCESSOR: Use the specified XSLT processor (saxon6 or xsltproc)

Code changes

• big makefile (common.mk) has been split into several small files
  • easier to maintain
  • improved performance by only loading makefiles that are needed for the given subcommand
• added a comprehensive test suite to ensure better quality when releasing
• no longer requires Bash 4--Bash 3 is sufficient

Documentation

• Quickstart has been updated to cover DAPS 2.0
• Update of User Guide is WIP
• new Tutorial "How to Write an Article with DocBook and DAPS"

Bugfixes:

Numerous bugfixes and improvements, among them:

• #64 Split Makefiles
• #66 daps: DC Files and Platform Dependant Paths
• #73 Create PDFs for target locdrop if --def-file is specified
• #82 Add config parameter for FOP (XEP?) stacksize
• #85 Set a fixed date with package-src target
• #98 Adjust EPUB Stylesheet to Suppot Kindle
• #99 Support User Definied Catalogs by Setting XML_CATALOG_FILES...
• #101 DAPS should support JPEG as a source file format
• #103 Exit target package-source when there are missing images
• #105 DAPS's sub-commands are somewhat inconsistent
• #106 Enable overwriting xsltproc params
• #108 Support FOP 1.1
• #115 --css/HTML_CSS parameter is completely ignored if styleroot...
• #116 Move font requirements from daps specfile to ...
• #126 Add --show switch to checklink
• #127 productinfo sometimes fails and is slow
• #129 Get rid of native xsltproc calls
• #136 daps Ignores Language in Document for Spell Checking
• #138 DAPS makes it easier to create black/white PDFs than ...
• #139 When trying to create a PDF file with malformed XSLT files...
• #142 Saxon seems to have problems with NovDoc documents
• #146 EPUB CRITICAL Error: No manual specific tmp dir
• #147 EPUB validation error on callouts
• #148 --meta only works when profiling
• #159 Fatal Error in ePUB stylesheets
• #162 JSP Styles fail with saxon6

1.1.4: Base release for 2.0 development

DPAS 2.0 was developed based on this release.