XmHTML 1.1.7 Beta finally available on GNOME CVS

[Elliot Turner <turnere MimeStar com>]

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>Date: Thu, 04 Feb 1999 03:58:55 +0100
>From: "Koen D'Hondt" <ripley@xs4all.nl>
>Organization: Ripley Software Development
>To: XmHTML Developers Mailing List <xmhtml-dev@simplicity.net>
>Subject: XmHTML 1.1.7 Beta finally available on GNOME CVS
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>Hi all,
>
>this is to inform you that XmHTML 1.1.7 Beta is finally available
>through GNOME CVS!
>
>Here are instructions on how to access it:
>
>- first make sure that you have CVS installed on your system (get it at
>any decent ftp site if you don't have it);
>- then do:
>
>$ export CVSROOT=':pserver:anonymous@anoncvs.gnome.org:/cvs/gnome'
>  or
>$ setenv CVSROOT ':pserver:anonymous@anoncvs.gnome.org:/cvs/gnome'
>
>- now login:
>
>$ cvs login
>There is no password, just hit the enter key. You only need to do this
>once, not everytime you access CVS.
>
>Now you're all set up to get the source:
>
>$ cvs -z3 checkout XmHTML
>The -z3 option instructs cvs to compress the files while transferring
>them, it requires gzip so only use it if you have gzip. But if you have
>gzip, *please* use it; the entire source tree is +5MB. When this command
>terminates (you can use the -t option to view the progress), you end up
>with a directory called XmHTML containing the entire source tree.
>
>Once you have checked out the code, you can use:
>
>$ cvs -z3 update -Pd XmHTML
>This will update your personal copy of XmHTML to the latest version on
>the CVS server instead of downloading the entire tree again.
>
>Using CVS it is also possible to commit changes you make to the CVS
>server. Please read the CVS documentation on how to do this (it's good
>to read it anyway, CVS is a fairly complex system with a lot of
>possibilities). You can also (as ever) supply patches to me and I'll
>submit them for you.  
>
>About 1.1.7 itself: it's a real Beta. Some things are better than
>others:
>
>- only builds using the provided Makefiles, the Imakefile's haven't been
>adapted yet to work with the new source tree;
>- simple table layout has much improved while nested tables have a
>couple of strange quirks. Cell dimensions are calculated more correctly,
>row & colspanning is treated much better now and borders are now much,
>much improved.
>- support for plain text and postscript output;
>- support for i18n (requires you to define -DI18N when compiling). Is
>untested.
>- support for fontsets: supply multiply values for the XmNfontFamily and
>XmNcharset resources, separate them by a comma;
>- adjustable tabwidth for <pre>...</pre> text; XmNtabWidth resource
>added;
>- several parser updates & fixes;
>- support for much more HTML4.0 events (all mouse events on anchors are
>now supported as well as the onLoad and onUnload document events);
>- lots of bugfixes (and more than likely introduced new ones :-(()
>- there is a configure.in but it needs to be extended into a fully
>autoconf setup. Volunteers? Anyone?
>- lot's of other stuff due to the modularization of the sources;
>- lot's of other changes & additions I forgot. Use a diff of 1.1.5
>example_2 and 1.1.7 example_2 and skim through examples/HTMLDemos.ad to
>get the most resource changes & additions. Two that are noteworthy to
>mention: the XmNxResolution and XmNyResolution resources allow you to
>set the screen resolution (dpi) manually instead of XmHTML determining
>it.
>
>I sincerly hope that putting XmHTML on GNOME CVS will speed up the
>development again. Due to a job change I have little time available now
>and in the future to continue the development as I would like to do it.
>I will at least keep supervision of the development and try to fix
>outstanding bugs (nested tables, form layout & scrolling) when I can
>find some time to spare.
>
>Also, I would like to thank Miguel de Icaza for letting me put XmHTML on
>GNOME CVS and his outstanding work on gtk-xmhtml and GNOME in general.
>Whish I could use it :-)
>
>And last but not least, I would like to take this oppurtinity to thank
>you all for keeping up with me and having faith in XmHTML. Your
>findings, bugfixes, contributions, comments and friendship are the stuff
>that kept me working on it for the last year!
>
>That's it, go get 1.1.7 and let's get this thing on the road!
>
>Cheers,
>Koen.
>-- 
>XmHTML author and maintainer
>ripley@xs4all.nl                          http://www.xs4all.nl/~ripley
>