English language ChangeLog of 22.11.2013

ChangeLog_Eng_20131122.txt (text/plain), 13.91 KB, created by Sergey S. Starikoff on 2013-11-25 07:02:38 UTC

History of changes

ExportToFB2.1 Version 1.0
ExportToFB21 Convertor is remake of ExportToFictionBook (web: http://ifolder.ru/3048108). It is rewritten from scratch and includes additional functions. The author of original ExportToFictionBook is Thunder.

The ExportToFB2.1 is exciting convertor made with great idea in mind. Unfortunately that convertor supported only 2 levels of nested headers. By this reasons  I have decided to made it suite my needs. I have fully changed parsing of headers introducing ability to use endless nested headers levels in theory. Also I wished to made this confeverter conforming fb2.1 format as closer as it possible. In this version many things fully rewritten and existing was extended. Paragraph and footnote parsing was modernized. Introduced new algorithms,  while some procedures used from old source-code.
The main idea of this converter belongs to Thunder, and I want to say thank you to him for his work. I have contacted with the author of original converter and he granted me permission to use source-code of his converter in producing other software products.

ExportToFB2.1 Version 1.1
1. Additions: In documents that don't have single level (Header) with epigraph in beginnig of it such epigraph will not be included in <section> element. (In previous version it included. Inspite of this final document was still valid).

2. Corrections: In some documents with complicated structures on related levels there was no </section> element closure in final document. In result of it fb2 document was not valid. Now it is fixed.

ExportToFB2.1 Version 2.0

Document parser is fully rewritten from scratch, so now it has new features.


1. Export of tables with headers. Due to differences in fuctionality of OOo Writer 2.3 and versions below tables export have different results. For versions above 2.3 tables exporting only with one header (if it exists). In version 2.3 with all headers that was in original document. Converter have OOo Writer version detection feature and converts table depending on OOo version. For additional information on work with tables in document see p. 4.1.

2. Added export of footnotes which consists of several paragraphs (inluding formatting). In versions 1.0 and 1.1 there was only export of first paragraph of each footnote.

3. Export pictures tags and its titles (in "title" attribute of corresponding tag) in places where it needs (the pictures itself doesn't export for now).

4. Export of text insets (without formatting) as simple text, citation or table (see p. 4.2.).

5. Text fields export.

ExportToFB2.1 Version 2.1


1. Added option to define genre %.

2. Changed genre list - now choose genre name instead of genre code in past.

3. I have fixed text insets proccessing. In past if thare was Lines converter quits with exception.

4. Now sequentally numbered paragraphs and bullets exporting as «•» symbol before paragraph.

5. Introduced "Setup" dialog setting saving and option to restore defaults.

6. Introduced feature to load and to save document's author profile and Source OS («< <» and «> >» buttons respectivly).

7.On export dialog opening author's profile autoloaded if it exists and corresponding fields fills-in.

ExportToFB2.1 Version 2.2


1. Counter name fixed in pictures parser (picture number increment was not working).

2. fb2-file now created after document parsing. In past versions it is created before document parsing.

3. Rewritten numbered and bulleted text processing (aslo working in headers).

4. Text file for working with numbering was added.

5. Fixed error when Description element was written and in resulting it in fb2 <program-used> element data stay inaccessible.

6. Added option to setup user styles in corresponding window. (see p.3.7).

7. Fixed minor bugs and issues.

ExportToFB2.1 Version 2.3


1. Fixed crash when in document last element was Level, Epigraph, Poem, Citation.

2. Genre list extended in according with FictionBook Editor's v.2.0.

3. New text correction feature (cleaning tabulations and scapes, empty paragraphs, replace quotation signs etc.) (see p.II).

ExportToFB2.1 Version 2.4


1. Variables data types changed from Integer to Long (to remove restriction on long documents creation).

2. Fixed error when saved settings of Setup Dialog was ignored and default settings applied instead. In previous version settings red only after Setup Dialog opening and OK button pressing.

3. Added formatting check in blank paragraphs to skip unnecessary <strong></strong, <emphasis></emphasis> elemenets etc and <empty-line/> element in poems instead of <stanza> element.

4. Added new genres.

5. New text corrector replace line break with one space character.

6. New text corrector feature redefine picture anchor type. Useful when converting .doc files created in Microsoft Word. Such files opens in OOo Writer with all pictures anchored "as symbol". Now anchor type of this pictures can be redefined in text corrector (for book creation "to paragraph" or "to symbol" recommended).

7. Added optional feature to create links from one place inside document to another (for example link from poem's verse to annotation, link from footnote to citation). This option in Additional Settings dialog is turned off by default. When this option is turned on and converted document with lot of links of this kind - convertations process speed is slighty decreased. For additional information see p. 4.4.

8. Text document ExportToFB21_Test.odt updated. Now it is included  local document hyperlinks demo section.

ExportToFB2.1 Version 2.4.1


1. Footnotes convertion error fixed. In previous version if in the end of footnote's text there were link or hyperlink with no additional charactes its text was repeated twice.

2. Default fb2 document encoding changed from utf-8 to windows-1251.

3. Help files was updated.

ExportToFB2.1 Version 2.5


1. Optimized code for working with "User Styles".

2. Optimized "Text Corrector" settings saving and loading code.

3. Optimized "Additional Settings" dialog settings saving and loading code.

4. Fixed positining and look of dialogs controls. Now on Windows and Unix-like systems they don't get truncated captions.

5. Added author's profile loading confirmation as protection against accidental button "< <" clicking.

6. Made 6 virtual keyboards. For details see p.III

7. Help files was updated.





OOoFBTools-2.16
	A. Text Correction Tools:
		1. Text Corrector.
			a) For LibreOffice 4, removal of soft hyphens restored.
			
OOoFBTools-2.17
	A. Text Correction Tools:
		1. Text Corrector.
			a) For LibreOffice 4, a bug fixed: when deleting spaces between a quotation mark and a word the spaces between any character and the English letter B were deleted (bug in LO4+). Fixed.
	B. Converter:
		1. Improved handling of program listings.
		Now in the Settings dialog (the group of Miscellaneous), there is an new option of "Courier New font as determinant of program listings." Default is off. When it is activated, the converter will take all text in Courier New as a pointer to the fact that it is code of program listings or monospaced text, and, respectively, such text will be exported tagged as <code>.
		In previous versions of OooFBTools, the converter automatically took any text with this font as program listings, which resulted in export as program listing of any book formatted with Courier New font, even when it was no program listing.
		Now this is controllable with the new option in Settings.

OOoFBTools-2.18
	A. Converter:
		1. Improved handling of program listings.
	B. Text Correction Tools:
		1. Automatic markup for program listings:
			a) Introduced a feature of selection of the criterion for the identification of a text as a program listing: Paragraph font, Paragraph style, Character font, Character style.
			With the criteria for Characters is selected, the tool will format individual words with the Code style and Courier New font.
			When the criteria for Paragraphs is selected, the tool will format the found paragraphs with the Code style and Courier New font, and will replace multiple conventional spaces with non-breaking ones in those paragraphs.
			
OOoFBTools-2.19
	A. Converter:
		1. NEW: In the genres scheme selector, the scheme from LibRusEc added with a much larger number of genres.
		2. Bug fixed - the data of the FB2 properties dialog in the converter did not save upon clicking on Save fb2 properties, as it should be, but on exit. Fixed.
	B. Validator:
		1. NEW: The Validator now provides for selection of a FictionBook scheme. The fb2 LibRusEc scheme differs from fb2.1 or fb2.2 only by a much larger genres list. When validating, be careful in selecting the genres scheme. If a book is created with the support of the LibRusEc list of genres and the book has genres unique to this scheme, but you have chosen for the Validator the scheme of fb2.1 or fb2.2, the Validator will report an invalid fb2 file (and will be absolutely right).
	B. Help:
		1. Changes in the part of conversion - the selection of the genres scheme.
		2. Changes in the part of the Validator - the selection of the genres scheme.
	
OOoFBTools-2.20
	A. Converter:
		1. Fixed the old bug in the Genres handling.
		2. NEW: For Linux, FreeBSD, Mac OS X and other *nixes, fb2 files now can be validated after export (the on/off option is in the Converter settings). Previously, the validation worked only in Windows.
		To validate an fb2 file in a Unix system, xmllin utility must be installed (normally, it is included into the libxml2-utils package).
		3. Now, all messages of the fb2 file validation results have a uniform appearance in all operating systems.
	B. Validator Tool:
		1. NEW: For Linux, FreeBSD, Mac OS X and other *nixes, a selected fb2 file now can be validated. Previously, the validation worked only in Windows.
		2. Now, all messages of the fb2 file validation results have a uniform appearance in all operating systems.
	B. Text Correction Tools:
		1. Numbering of selected paragraphs:
			a) After a number, a non-breaking space is added.
		2. Inserting bullets at the beginning of specified paragraphs:
			a) After a bullet, a non-breaking space is added.
			b) The selection of bullets to insert is significantly expanded.
			
OOoFBTools-2.21
	A. Converter:			
		1. Critical update: Fixed image generation errors for Win 7/8
		
OOoFBTools-2.22
	A. General:
		1. As requested by Ukrainian users, for LibreOffice / Apache OpenOffice localized to Ukrainian the names of menu items, toolbars and messages from all tools and the Converter are displayed in Russian rather than in English
		2. The About OOoFBTools dialog is amended with information about OOoFBTools websites to download new releases.
	B. Text Correction Tools:			
		1. Text Corrector.
			a) Critical update: fixed error when inserting a non-breaking space in abbreviations.
		2. Interactive footnote generation:
			a) The tool operation improved.
			
OOoFBTools-2.23
	A. Text Correction Tools:
		Critical update: In LibreOffice 4.x and Apache OpenOffice 4.x, the search and replace with regular expressions is broken resulting in garbled document text.
		1. Text Corrector.
			a) A bug to fix in the option of Replace with dashes hyphens or minus signs used instead of dashes between words. Fixed.
			b) Replacing of multiple spaces between words with one space/tab now ignores superscipt/subscript numbers. Otherwise, the very first letter after such numbers was converted into superscipt/subscript.
		2. OCR formatting errors:
			a) Improved operation of the tool when processing quotes — looping protection.
			
OOoFBTools-2.24
	A. Converter:			
		1. NEW: Export of nested bulleted / numbered / picture lists in text, sidebars, tables. Nesting is simulated by non-breaking spaces, the number of which can be set in the Converter preferences. The default is 3 non-breaking spaces.
	B. Text Correction Tools:
		1. Text Corrector.
			a) Improved performance of Replace minus with n-dash between numbers. Now, it replaces with n-dashes not only minus signs, but also hyphens and m-dashes. Now, the option’s name is Replace minus, hyphen, m-dash with n-dash between numbers.
	
OOoFBTools-2.25
	A. Converter:			
		1. NEW: For all operating systems, the generation of a full GUID for fb2 file ID is implemented. If, for any reason, GUID could not be generated (uuidgen utility not found for Mac OS X, Linux and/or other system except Windows, or for another reason), the GUID is generated based on the time and the random number generator.
		Windows requires no extra software to install (the generator utility is included into OOoFBTools). For Mac OX X, Linux and other Unix systems, uuidgen must be installed. Usually it is installed by default in OS distros. To check this, run in the console: uuidgen. If uuidgen is installed, you will see the GUID. If it’s missing in the system, install uuid-runtime or libuuid1 package.
		2. Improved ergonomics of the Fb2 Properties Editor shape.
		3. Simplified post-processing: cleanup of the generated fb2 code.
		4. Slightly reduced dimensions of the Settings dialog to work on laptops.
	B. Text Correction Tools:
		1. Interactive footnote/endnote generation:
			a) NEW: Now the tools handles footnotes/endnotes numbered not only with superscript numbers, but also with digits with full stops (no superscript). For example: "4. Footnote/endnote text." Introduced search for footnote/endnote numbers in the note lists: 1. as numbers with full stops. 2. As superscript numbers. The color marking of footnote/endnote numbers in the text and the note lists is also dependent on the search mode selected.
		2. Text Corrector.
			a) NEW: Added an option to insert a non-breaking space between the day and the month, such as 19 January, January 19th…
			b) The form dimensions reduced to make it fit on 15" laptop screens of 1366x768 pixels. For this, the Corrector options are split to 2 selectable tabs: "Spaces, paragraphs, and breaks" and "Hyphens, dashes, and other."