CHANGELOG Highlight

highlight 2.4-8

19-October-2006

-added xterm 256 color output (-M, --xterm256) (thanks to Wolfgang Frisch)
-prints warning if output format ignores the theme background colour
-fixed Java and Python language definitions
-revised REDME files

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highlight 2.4-7

10-June-2006

-fixed segfault in symbol parsing procedure (thanks to Veit Wedtstein)
-updated Lua and Lisp definitions
-added AutoIt, NSIS, Graphviz and Qore definitions
-updated SWIG sample scripts

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02-May-2006

highlight 2.4-6

-fixed segfault when outputting ANSI (thanks to Philip Jenvey)

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20-March-2006

highlight 2.4-5

-fixed bug which caused segfault on x86_64 (thanks to Eric Hopper)
-fixed wrong enumeration start when outputting text w/o highlighting
  (thanks to Russell Yanofsky)
-added anchor-prefix option (suggested by Peter Biechele)
-added anchor-filename option (suggested by Mazy)
-added $description entry to language file format
-added D language file
-updated regex classes to version 1.05.02

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19-February-2006

highlight 2.4-4

-added print-config option
-added scilab definition (thanks to Gunnar Lindholm)
-dropped support for XSL-FO (use XML instead for further processing)
-dropped deprecated options (css-infile, css-outfile, include-css)
-fixed line numbering (starting at 1, printed if syntax option is txt)
   (thanks to Russell Yanofsky)
-renamed extensions.conf to filetypes.conf
-moved content of scriptre.conf into filetypes.conf
-renamed option help-int to help-lang
-renamed option format-style to reformat
-updated regex classes to version 1.04
-code cleanup
-updated documentation

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30-October-2005

highlight 2.4-3

-added RTF page-size option (suggested by David Strip)
-fixed bug in RTF output, which prevented italic and bold output
  (patch by Jeremy Weinberger)
-renamed colour theme parameter KW_CLASS to KW_GROUP

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25-September-2005

highlight 2.4-2

-added line-number-start switch (suggested by Roie Black)
-added babel switch to make output compatible with LaTeX Babel
  package (disables Babel shorthands)
-fixed ampl.lang (thanks to David Strip)
-fixed error message if language definition is unknown
-added Nemerle definition (n.lang)
-added SAS definition (thanks to Alexandre Detiste)
-added TTCN3 definition (thanks to Peter Biechele)
-added tcsh.lang (thanks to Igor Furlan)
-Unix package: moved *.conf to /etc/highlight/
  (suggested by Jochen Schmitt)

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23-July-2005

highlight 2.4-1

-dropped include-pkg option
-added CSS style for list items (--ordered-list)
-fixed default number regex
-fixed VHDL event recognition
-added missing KWD keyword style to several colour themes
-added $STRING_UNEQUAL parameter for language definitions
-added string CodeGenerator::generateString(const string &)
-improved Ruby and Octave highlighting
-added SWIG interface in examples/swig
-removed examples/python-binding
-removed themes: neon2 fluke greyish ide-jbuilder4 ide-jcreator2
   ide-synedit neon2 rand02 ron whitenblue website

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02-July-2005

highlight 2.3-6 beta

-fixed crash in language definition loader
-saved helpmsg/cs.help as iso-8859-2
-added include-pkg option to define a list of LaTeX packages
  which should be included
-fixed output of UTF-8 characters (replaced isspace by iswspace)

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26-June-2005

highlight 2.3-5 beta

-fixed LaTeX and TeX output
-added support for UTF-8 LaTeX output (suggested by Sungmin Cho)
-dropped automatic conversion of ASCII characters > 127, package
  latin1 is included instead

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17-June-2005

highlight 2.3-4 beta

-added font and fontsize options (submitted by Yves Bailly)
-added line-number-width (suggested by Yves Bailly)
-code cleanup

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16-May-2005

highlight 2.3-3 beta

-added kwd keyword class to most of the colour themes
-added regular expressions to some language definitions

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04-May-2005

highlight 2.3-2 beta

-improved number regex
-added --ordered-list option (suggested by Dominic Lchinger)
-fixed tag parsing (broken in 2.3-1)
-updated docs
-added Brazilian help text (thanks to Adao Raul)
-added Czech help text

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23-April-2005

highlight 2.3-1 beta

-added support for regular expressions in language definitions

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25-March-2005

highlight 2.2-10

-added support for PowerPC Assembler (thanks to Juergen Frank)
-added support for AppleScript (thanks to Andreas Amann)
-added encoding option to set proper output encoding type in XML and
   HTML output formats (default encoding: ISO-8895-1)
   Note: encoding name has to match input file encoding
-style definitions are generated if only --fragment and --style-outpath
   options are set
-added simple recognition of scripts without file extension
  (Bash, Perl, AWK, Python)
-added config file scriptre.conf to configure script recognition
-moved langDefs/extensions.conf to package base directory
-added --force option to generate output if language type is unknown
-fixed parsing of escape sequences outside of strings in Perl
  (last six points suggested by Andreas Amann)
-fixed output of CR line terminators
-added classes pre.hl and body.hl in CSS defintions

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27-February-2005

highlight 2.2-9

-fixed --output option
-fixed line number indentation in TeX and LaTeX output
-fixed compilation error for Darwin (OSX) (thanks to Plumber)
-fixed LaTeX compilation warnings (thanks to Tyranix)
-fixed xml default file suffix
-closing style tags are no longer printed in the following output line
   (suggested by Yves Bailly)
-fixed rb.lang (Ruby is case sensitive)
-external style definitions and inclusion of user defined styles were
   added to LaTeX and TeX output
-installation directory configuration is improved in the makefiles
   (all suggested by Thomas Link)
-new options: style-outfile, style-infile, include-style
-deprecated options: css-outfile, css-infile, include-css

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20-February-2005

highlight 2.2-8

-added XML output (suggested by Matteo Bertini)
-added support for MS SQL (thanks to Magnus �erg)
-added support for Pyrex (thanks to Matteo Bertini)
-added support for Hecl, Luban and Qu

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12-January-2005

highlight 2.2-7

-fixed compilation error on AMD64/gcc4.0 (thanks to Andreas Jochens)
-fixed tab replacement (thanks to Adrian Bader)
-fixed parsing of keywords with special characters as prefix ($ALLOWEDCHARS)
   (thanks to Magnus �erg)
-single spaces in (La)TeX are no longer preceeded by backslash

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03-December-2004

highlight 2.2-6

-fixed compilation error with getopt and Solaris 5.8
  (thanks to Philippe Cornu and Jean-Emmanuel Reynaud)
-enabled css-infile option when include-css is set
-improved IO and Perl language definitions
-updated dirstram classes to release 0.4
-W32 port: fixed installation path determination

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31-October-2004

highlight 2.2-5

-fixed some compiler warnings in various Debian builds (thanks to Ayman Negm)
-fixed indentation error in LaTeX output and output of "--" in bold font
  (thanks to Michael Suess)
-added background colour attribute of body element to the CSS output to
  improve compability with old browsers (NS Communicator 4.8)
  (thanks to Wojciech Stryjewski)
-in CSS output, user defined CSS definitions are now included after highlight
  style definitions to make modifications easier
-highlight returns EXIT_FAILURE after every IO failure
-updated Spanish manual and help message (thanks to David Villa)

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26-September-2004

highlight 2.2-4

-changed ANSI output colours to vim style (suggested by David Villa)
-added new acid indentation scheme and acid colour theme
  (thanks to Alexandre "AciD" Bonneau)
-highlight returns 1 (EXIT_FAILURE) if file operations failed
  (suggested by David Villa)
-fixed bug in LaTeX output: [ and * characters after a linebreak (\\) caused
  latex compilation to stop (thanks to Christian Schilling)
-improved error reports

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10-September-2004

highlight 2.2-3

-applied patch to suppress compiler warnings on several platforms
  (thanks to weasel@debian.org)
-renamed the /utils directory to /examples, which moved to
  /usr/share/doc/highlight/ (suggested by Ayman Negm)
-if --output is defined and output format is (X)HTML, the CSS file is stored in
  the directory given by --output (suggested by Vicky Brown)
-added spanish translations: README_ES and es.help (thanks to David Villa)
-added support for SNMPv1 and SNMPv2 files: mib.lang (thanks to Roman Surma)
-fixed highlighting of escape sequences in Pascal (thanks to Grzegorz Tworek)
-added Pascal multi line comment delimiters: (*, *)
-added a third keyword style (kwc) to all themes
-added a third keyword group: ada.lang, gawk.lang, c.lang, java.lang, pas.lang
-fixed some language definition with old $keyword entries

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20-July-2004

highlight 2.2-2

-removed $STRINGDELIMITERPAIR parameter
-internal changes

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11-July-2004

highlight 2.2-1

-added content-type (iso-8859-1) to HTML output
-added possibility to define custom keyword groups (suggested by Daniel Bonniot)
-reformatting and indentation schemes are customizable, config files are located
  in /indentSchemes (suggested by Petri Heiramo)
-added new output format: ANSI terminal sequences (--ansi)
  (suggested by David Villa)
  assigned -A to --ansi, -g to --fop-compatible
-added $SL-COMMENT parameter to colour themes (enables seperate highlighting
 of single and multi line comments)
-added option to fill linenumbers with zeroes
-improved quality of colour themes
-changed names of following command line options:
  deletetabs -> replace-tabs
  listthemes -> list-themes
  listlangs  -> list-langs
  includecss -> include-css
  printindex -> print-index
-dropped support for C# member attributes (was a nasty workaround)
-dropped support for Forth
-removed unnecessary --batch (-b) option
-removed utils/cgi/perl/README_CGI
-fixed raw string highlighting bug: r"""\n""" in Python is parsed correctly
-fixed some old parameters in language definitions
-added source directory names to generated index file (-C)

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20-June-2004

highlight 2.0-25

-fixed quote replacement in LaTeX (\dq -> \dq{}) (thanks to Adrian Bader)
-fixed crash if $HOME is not defined (thanks to Kostas Maistelis)
-added compile flag CONFIG_FILE_PATH to define a custom path to the config file
-added local copy of getopt, which is compiled if the system does not provide it
  (removed win32cmdline.*)
-fixed VHDL event parsing
-removed some poor quality colour themes and improved some others
-added ide-eclipse style

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10-June-2004

highlight 2.0-24

-improved VHDL support (thanks to Aaron D. Marasco)
-added Coldfusion MX definition (thanks to Paul Connell)
-added $REFORMATTING option to language definitions
-added a Python binding in utils/python-binding
-some code clean up

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16-May-2004

highlight 2.0-23

-fixed ABAP definition (thanks to Kevin Barter)
-fixed Python definition
-fixed parsing of methods applied to numerical literals (possible in Ruby)
-fixed indentation of line numbers in LaTeX (thanks to Michael Berndt)
-reduced LaTeX output file size
-improved layout of LaTeX document
-applied some patches to Artistic Style code (see astyle.sourceforge.net)
-added updated phpwiki-plugin utils/cgi/php/SyntaxHighlighter.php
  (thanks to Reini Urban)

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19-April-2004

highlight 2.0-22

-improved Fortran 77 parsing (thanks to Geraldo Veiga),
  moved parsing information to f77.lang and f90.lang
-added highlighting of float literals like .5
-added new language definitions: ABAP/4, ARM, Bison, Dylan, FAME,Informix, Lisp,
  Octave, R, Scala, Snobol, Verilog
-removed -d option
-added -P option to display a progress bar in batch mode

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23-March-2004

highlight 2.0-21

-added option (-r) to replace " by \dq in LaTeX (thanks to Nikolai Mikuszeit)
-added option (-E) to define another search path, where language definitions
   and themes may be stored (suggested by a Debian package tester)
-fixed bug which disabled HTML anchors (thanks to Richard Beauchamp)
-fixed wrong current working directory detection in W32 code (thanks to Ian Oliver)
-improved fragmented TeX output
-fixed man page
-changed path of config file to ~/.highlightrc (Unix)
-added options to config file
-changed parameter prefix from "/" to the more convenient "$" in configuration files
-changed "typesmods" parameter in language definitions to "types"
-improved some colour themes
-added $INCLUDE statement in language definitions to include content of other files

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09-March-2004

highlight 2.0-20

-added new parser options: TYPEDELIMITERS and KEYWORDDELIMITERS to enable
   highlighting of variables like ${var}
-changed RTF font to Courier New
-added symbol highlighting (last two suggested by Anssi Lehtinen)
-added new colour themes (darkblue, zellner, ron, peachpuff, pablo, nedit)
-added a new directive to add a custom installation directory at compile time
   (CUSTOM_INSTALL_DIR in highlight/makefile)
-added Doxygen documentation
-updated spec.lang, sh.lang and make.lang
-fixed some case insensitive language files
-replaced make by ${MAKE} in makefile (suggested by Thomas Dettbarn)
-removed utils/frontend (see homepage for highlight-gui package)
-moved German help to README_DE
-moved documentation files to /usr/share/doc/highlight (suggested by Ayman Negm)

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21-February-2004

highlight 2.0-19

-improved whitespace indentation in TeX and LaTeX
-fixed output of +, -, =, <, > in TeX
-fixed output of blank lines in TeX
   (all suggested by Milan Straka)
-updated Java language definition to 1.5
-added support for BibTex, Erlang, Icon, Lisp, Lotos, Maple, Objectice C,
   Prolog, PostScript and RPM Spec

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08-February-2004

highlight 2.0-18

-changed hskip unit in LaTeX output vom mm to em
-fixed different font width of spaces in TeX output
   (thanks to Milan Straka)
-added macros in TeX output to reduce file size
-fixed bug which made first line number disappear (introduced in 2.0-17)
-declared XSL-FO output as experimental, added a switch to provide
   modified output for both Apache FOP and xmlto/xsltproc

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01-February-2004

highlight 2.0-17

-enabled multiple input file names and real batch processing wildcards
-improved debugging output
-added new PHP Wiki plugin (thanks to Alec Thomas)
-fixed newlines at the beginning and the ending of HTML output
-fixed Java and Nice language definitions (thanks to Daniel Bonniot)
-general cleanup (code, makefiles, docs)

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12-January-2004

highlight 2.0-16

-added new options to wrap long lines (suggested by Johannes Weißl)
-added new colour themes: vim, vim-dark and ide-codewarrior
-improved Java, Nice and C parsing

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04-January-2004

highlight 2.0-15

-improved XSL-FO output (thanks to Daniel Bonniot)
-reduced LaTeX output file size

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21-December-2003

highlight 2.0-14

-added XSL-FO output format (suggested by Daniel Bonniot)
-fixed segfault when theme file was not found
-improved makefiles
-ported code to Solaris (thanks to Ade Fewings)

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25-November-2003

highlight 2.0-13

-fixed parsing of XML comments
-fixed conversion of umlauts and accents
-improved parsing of numbers (suffixes like 30L, 4.5f; exponents)
-'@' in HTML output is replaced  by HTML entity to confuse spam robots
-fixed Avenue, Perl, Progress and Clipper language definitions
-added support for Action Script, Objective Caml, Standard ML, Felix,
   Frink, IO, Nasal, MaxScript, Oberon, Object Script
-replaced AutoConf build process by customizable makefile (suggested by John Skaller)

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09-November-2003

highlight 2.0-12

-fixed parsing of subtractions (i.e: varName-1)
-added support for SuperX++ (thanks to Kimanzi Mati)
-added Relax NG Compact language definition (thanks to Christian Siefkes)

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26-October-2003

highlight 2.0-11

-fixed LaTeX and Squirrel language definitions
   (thanks to Stephan Bhme and Alberto Dechemelis)
-fixed number parsing (allow 'a'-'f' in Hex numbers only)
-replaced double quotes by single quotes in fragmented LaTeX output
-added a new subdirectory "utils/", moved "cgi/" there
-added a new Python Qt-Frontend
-added a PHP module (thanks to Philip Van Hoof)
-added Nice language definition

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21-September-2003

highlight 2.0-10

-changed LaTeX font settings to \tt and \it
-improved fragmented LaTeX output
-fixed LaTeX language definition
-fixed multi line compiler directive parsing with strings
-added new Squirrel ans JSP language definitions

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14-September-2003

highlight 2.0-9

-trailing whitespace from input is ignored
-modified LaTeX fragmented output to simplify inclusion of code in
   existing documents
-added support for multiple line compiler directives
-added new THE style (thanks to Mark Hessling)

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15-August-2003

highlight 2.0-8 Hot Summer Build

-fixed bug which prevented highlighting of escape characters within strings
   which start a new line
-fixed XHTML line anchors attribute to "id"
-added background colour support for plain TeX
-improved recognition of strings with different open/close delimiters
-added a reasonable 4th support
-internal changes to improve speed
-changed XHTML encoding from utf-8 to iso-8859-1 and xhtml version to 1.1
-removed comment in XHTML header to enable highlighting when style
   definition is included in output
-added recognition of hex, octal and unicode escape sequences (\123, \xff)
-improved Python and Tcl support

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04-August-2003

highlight 2.0-7

-fixed parsing of C# simplified strings (thanks to Cerda)
-added support for C# member attributes (thanks to Gauthier)
-added --listlangs option (suggested by Mark Hessling)
-improved plausibility of --outdir option (thanks to Otto Barnes II)

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27-July-2003

highlight 2.0-6

-fixed bug in HTML and XHTML output, which caused insertion of too many
   "</span>" tags (thanks to Mark Hessling)

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20-July-2003

highlight 2.0-5

-improved LaTeX, TeX and RTF colour output
-fixed TeX output formatting errors
-fixed LaTeX line number output (thanks to Johannes Nolte)
-improved code portability (thanks to Gauthier)
-added french help (thanks to Gauthier)

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01-July-2003

highlight 2.0-4

-improved Ada 95 output (thanks to Frank Piron)
-added HTML index file option
-simplified API
-added some language definitions

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28-May-2003

highlight 2.0-2

-fixed bug causing lowercase output of case insensitive
   languages (thanks to David and Mark Hessling)
-added new Matlab colour theme (thanks to David)
-improved Rexx language definition (thanks to Mark Hessling)
-added plain text language definition

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01-May-2003

highlight 2.0

-fixed memory leak in DataDir::searchDataDir()
-fixed configuration file parsing
-added data-dir option
-added batch-recursive option
-changed CmdLineoptions.cpp to compile under Windows

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27-April-2003

highlight 2.0b-9

-improved integer literal and C++ multiline comment parsing
   (both suggested by Benjamin Kaufmann)
-improved directive line parsing

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20-April-2003

highlight 2.0b-8

-added Pike language definition (thanks to Olivier Girondel)
-added support for Forth (suggested by Hans Bezemer)
-fixed bugs in language definition loader method
-fixed segfault

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07-April-2003

highlight 2.0b-7

-added Artistic Style indentation and reformatting

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31-March-2003

highlight 2.0b-6

-fixed fortran code parsing ( thanks to Henning Weber)
-improved performance

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highlight 2.0b-5

-fixed theme files which had DOS line terminators
-presets reader method was fixed
-changed RTF output to Courier and 20 pt font size
-help screen fixed

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19-March-2003

highlight 2.0b-4

-added css-infile and css-outfile options to make generation of customizable css
   definitons clearer (suggested by Markus Werle)
-fixed bug reading fontsize parameter of themes

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16-March-2003

highlight 2.0b-3

-improved RTF output

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09-March-2003

highlight 2.0b-2

-improved RTF output (added bold/italics/underline attributes)
-improved TeX output (added theme colors [thanks to Markus Henning for TeX-URL],
   bold and italics)
-added a decription how to use the highlight parser in own applications

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05-March-2003

highlight 2.0b
-memory leak was fixed
-the parser was rewritten to add more flexibility and stability
-added ability to highlight code with tags (XML, HTML...)
-added ability to highlight strings with prefixes
   (variableprefix, keywordprefix)
-different source file extensions are stored in a configuration file
   (extensions.conf)
-configuration reader was modified to allow storing parameter values
   in multiple lines
-added some more language definitions

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30-January-2003

highlight 1.3.4-2

-added option to disable directive line bug
-added ability to search *.style and *.lang files in different directories,
  which may be set as prefix option of ./configure
  (suggested by Jose Santiago)

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28-January-2003

highlight 1.3.4

-fixed LaTeX output regarding escape characters outside of strings
-fixed unmasked escape characters
   (both bugs reported by Peter Albert)
-added \ttfamily to LaTeX header (suggested by Peter Albert)
-rpm-spec file allows relocatable builds (thanks to Dwight Engen)
-added "CPP" to recogniced source file suffixes (suggested by Maniac)
-replaced verb-|- by \textbar
-fixed php.lang and py.lang

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08-January-2003

highlight 1.3.3

-fixed Asm.lang (lower case of keywords/types)
-added option to specify target directory of the output files
-fixed bug in LateX/RTF/TeX output; last opened tag being closed now
-improved LaTeX output
-added ability to read presets from the configuration file $HOME/.highlight.conf
-added simple cgi script (Perl)

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29-November-2002

highlight 1.3.2-2

- fixed LaTeX output of | and ~ characters (thanks to Martin Idelberger)

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26-November-2002

highlight 1.3.2

-fixed buffer overflow problem (thanks to Christian Perle)
-added Rexx, Modula3, Agda, Haskell language definition
-added (G)AWK language definition (thanks to Andreas Schoenberg)
-added Bold and Italic font support, and background colour to LaTeX output
-highlight compiles without warnings with gcc 3.2

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20-November-2002

highlight 1.3.1-2

-applied gcc 3.2 patch (thanks to Georg Young)

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18-November-2002

highlight 1.3.1

-fixed bug whioch disabled batch mode
-added POV Ray Definition (thanks to Christian Perle)
-added emacs and kwrite style

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11-November-2002

highlight 1.3  (beta)

-applied Ruby definition file patch (thanks to Jonas Fonseca)
-introduced style definition files
-added background colour to style definitions
-added line anchors in HTML output

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05-October-2002

highlight 1.2.1

-applied patch to make highlight compile with gcc 3.x (thanks to Marc Duponcheel)
-fixed LaTeX output of "^" and /hskip  (thanks to Dan Muller)
-fixed TeX output

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26-August-2002

highlight 1.2

-fixed bug which caused wrong output file suffixes in batch mode
-fixed (X)HTML output of french characters
-added frech character output (accent graphe, acute) to rtf, TeX and LaTeX output
-ability to recognize keywords with "-"
-added new language definitions (Ruby, COBOL, Fortran)

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20-August-2002

highlight 1.1

-TeX output
-fixed documentation regarding LaTeX / TeX output (Thanks to Keith Briggs)
-fixed bug which caused single line comments left unmasked
-french letters like ? ?are masked

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13-August-2002

highlight 1.0 <stable>

-reduced tex output file size
-Perl and Visual Basic definition file
-fixed error in help msg (Thanks to Jan van Haarst)

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25-July-2002

highlight 0.1

-RTF and La(Tex) output
-Lua definition file
-header and footer part of output file may be omitted
-changed path of language definitions to /usr/share/highlight

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06-May-2002:

src2css 0.2

-batch mode, converting all files matching a given wildcard
-XHTML output
-Python definition file

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04-Apr-2002:

src2css 0.1

-initial release
