ANNOUNCEMENT

liblouisutdml 2.8.0 has been released

The liblouis developer team is proud to announce the liblouisutdml
release 2.8.0. The release is available for download at:

https://github.com/liblouis/liblouisutdml/releases

Introduction
============

Liblouisutdml is an open-source braille formatter. The formatting can be
configured via a style sheet. By incorporating Liblouis [1]_ it provides
the capability of translating any XML or plain text file into properly
transcribed, embosser-ready braille. This includes translation into
grade two, mathematical codes, etc.

Noteworthy changes in this release
==================================

This Liblouisutdml release adds a couple of new features and adds
support for liblouis 3.11.

For a detailed list of all the changes refer to the list of closed
issues [2]_.

New features
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-  Add support for liblouis 3.11
-  Add a setting for minimum syllable length (hyphenation) thanks to
   Bert Frees
-  Add a new page number format: Roman capitals, thanks to Bert Frees

Bug fixes
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-  Drop the dependency on internal liblouis API, thanks to Christian
   Egli and Bert Frees
-  Handle empty elements with style thanks to Bert Frees
-  Fix ``topBoxline`` and ``bottomBoxline`` thanks to Bert Frees
-  Fix ``printPageNumberRange=yes`` with ``printPageNumberAt=bottom``
   thanks to Bert Frees
-  Allow Roman numbers greater than 1000 thanks to Bert Frees
-  Fix Belgian math thanks to Bert Frees

Other
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-  Added a huge set of MathML -> Nemeth tests thanks to Neil Soiffer
-  Add a description to the NAME section of the man page thanks to
   Samuel Thibault

Share and Enjoy!

– Christian Egli, on behalf of the liblouis developers

Footnotes
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.. [1]
   https://github.com/liblouis/liblouis

.. [2]
   https://github.com/liblouis/liblouisutdml/milestone/3?closed=1