# DocBook DSSSL Stylesheet Release Notes

03 November 2004
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DocBook Open Repository Team

These are the release notes for the DocBook DSSSL Stylesheets. At a minimum, this file attempts to document changes to the public APIs and provide a high-level overview of the features added in each release.

## Release 1.79

This release contains fixes for a number of long-standing bugs. See the file for more details. Among the user-visible changes are:

- HTML stylesheets

  - The doctype definition in the HTML output now contains a system identifier, required for better parsing in contemporary browsers.

  - CSS decoration has been added to procedure steps.

  - Uses of <VAR> in HTML output (often rendered in italic) have been changed to something more appropriate

  - The last character of the version was cut off in previous releases.

  - Processing instruction parsing has been made more robust against arbitrarily formed PIs.

  - Callout graphics and admonition graphics share a single variable, %stock-graphics-extension%.

  - The value of the VALIGN attribute has been corrected to MIDDLE instead of CENTER.

- Print stylesheets

  - Admonition titles and contents are kept together.

  - Programlistings with callouts now honor the width attribute.

  - The rendering of othercredit has been made more useful.

  - Excessive after spacing when a listitem contains multiple paras or verbatim environments has been fixed.

  - Empty ulinks don't generate footnotes, so they are now omitted from the footnote counting.

  - Some cases where components were restarting the page numbering were fixed.

  - article-titlepage-recto-elements has been made to match the HTML version.

  - Support for revdescription inside revison on titlepages has been added.

- General

  - "pc" is now allowed as abbreviation for "pica".

  - The return value of my-debug has been fixed.

  - A Bosnian translation has been added.

  - A Bulgarian translation has been added.