Summary of changes from NEWS file. Note that this is the changes from
the last major version. One of most notable things is that PDF output
support is added to some sub programs.
PW
==
+ Left-, right- and center aligned adjustable tabs.
+ Left-, right- and center aligned plugins.
+ "Full" adjustment with straight left and right edges.
+ Print raised, lowered and underlined text properly.
+ Strikethrough.
+ Faster HTML (and hence Word) loader.
+ Display LaTeX and DVI files in the Clipart plugin.
+ Fetch stock quotes from Yahoo over the Internet.
- Load and save as PDF
- Colour printing.
- Zoom.
- Redisplay more efficiently.
Siag
====
+ $A$1 style references, which are not updated when cells are moved.
+ Examples for all functions.
+ Hundreds of functions, many Excel compatible, all documented in
the function reference.
+ Arbitrary precision integer functions.
+ Arbitrary precision floating-point functions.
+ Rudimentary loading of ABS files.
+ New operators ** (power) and \ (quotient).
+ Complex numbers; example in complex.siag.
+ Matrix functions; example in matrix.siag.
+ New or updated documentation, automatically generated from the source.
+ "C" interpreter translates expressions to Scheme rather than evaluating
the expression itself.
+ Convert currencies, using information from Yahoo over the Internet.
- Save as PDF.
- Colour printing.
- Zoom.
- Redisplay more efficiently.
Egon
====
- Save as PDF.
- Load and save plaintext.
- Load and save HTML.
- Load Powerpoint.
- Load MagicPoint (rudimentary).
- Keyboard control.
- Updated documentation.
- Postscript output and printing.
- Background gradients.
- Multiple buffers and sheets (pages).
- Full-screen mode.
All
===
+ Support for the XDND drag and drop protocol.
- New or updated translations: Brazilian, Czech, Danish, German,
Russian, Spanish, Swedish
- Image plugin redisplays more efficiently.
And lots of small changes that are either invisible or too insignificant
to mention here.
all dependencies on packages depending on "png" which contain shared
libraries, all for the (imminent) update to the "png" package.
[List courtesy of John Darrow, courtesy of "bulk-build".]
denote that the package uses libXaw.
Introduce an XAW_TYPE definition, which is defined in /etc/mk.conf by
the user, to denote the type of libXaw to use. Possible values are:
standard, 3d and xpm.
Define USE_XAW in relevant Makefiles.
Set default XAW_TYPE in Makefiles which previously did a DEPENDS+= Xaw3d...
This means that package builds should not fail because of conflicting
Xaw packages being installed on machines.
Changes -- other than bugfixes -- include:
Ported to new Tooltip and Handle widgets.
Resized all 16x16 pixmaps to 24x24.
Made Guile and Tcl opt-in as well, to be consistent with Python and ndbm.
Use load_pixmap in xcommon for the icons.
Updated file format documentation in fileformats.html.
Made A1 references the default.
Double click in colnum calls (fit-block-width).
Double click in rownum calls (fit-block-height).
Autofill by clicking and dragging in grid.
A few fixes in the Danish, French and Croatian message keys
Added more strings to Swedish message file.
Resize cell size using mouse inside the grid.
Change format of unallocated cells.
Redesigned list selector box.
Fixed enter-date and enter-time. They are still not as flexible as I would
like them to be, but at least they work now.
Added commands edit-applications and save-applications to the Tools menu,
so they can be used to customize the environment.
Interface to Gnuplot rewritten. Use form to get more flexibility. Updated
documentation somewhat.
Changed the paper selection, margin, header, footer et al code to the code
used by PW. No more properties for this purpose.
Fixed the backup-on-save code so it actually works.
Changed default header to &n and footer to &p.
Orientation and protection moved from the File menu to the paper selection
dialog.
Incorporated Victor Wagner's xls2csv utility. XLS format added in module
fileio_txt.c.
Incorporated the Xed text editor by Randolf Werner (evol@infko.uni-koblenz.de).
See xed subdirectory for details.
Redesigned file selector. Modified plotting plugin so it doesn't barf on
cells containing labels or strings (bug in plot.scm).
Changes: Redesigned file selector, made plotting plugin not barf
on non-numeric cells, portability patches fixed a couple of broken
casts, new text editor (a heavily modified version of Xed), very
alpha importing of Excel documents using Victor Wagner's xls2csv,
improved recognition of very old Siag files and deallocate unused
rows at the bottom of a sheet.
