AutoLaTeX Changelog

What's new in AutoLaTeX 33.1

Oct 22, 2014
  • Fixing invalid guard for the LaTeX file.

New in AutoLaTeX 29.0 (Feb 11, 2014)

  • This version adds the translator from GeoGebra to PDF.

New in AutoLaTeX 28.5 (Feb 4, 2014)

  • This version adds major bugfixes.

New in AutoLaTeX 28.4 (Jan 21, 2014)

  • This version outputs the warnings only from the last run of pdflatex.

New in AutoLaTeX 28.3 (Jan 16, 2014)

  • Minor bugfixes in the Gedit plugin.

New in AutoLaTeX 28.2 (Jan 15, 2014)

  • This version adds major bugfixes and command-line options to control the warning output.

New in AutoLaTeX 28.0 (Dec 23, 2013)

  • AutoLaTeX is now able to output detailed warnings on the CLI. This feature may be enabled with the "--Wall" commandline option.
  • The major bug in the enabling state of the Gedit's components is fixed.

New in AutoLaTeX 27.2 (Dec 5, 2013)

  • Fixed a major bugfix in the Gedit plugin.

New in AutoLaTeX 27.1 (Dec 3, 2013)

  • In the previous versions, Inkscape was used to generate an EPS file which is converted to PDF, but in some cases, graphical elements are lost in the PDF file. To avoid this problem, Inkscape is now directly generates the PDF files.

New in AutoLaTeX 26.5 (Nov 14, 2013)

  • This version applies the CTAN principle "as flat as possible" and adds a minor bugfix.

New in AutoLaTeX 26.4 (Nov 12, 2013)

  • This version adds major bugfixes in the analysis of the TeX and BibTeX logs.

New in AutoLaTeX 26.3 (Oct 15, 2013)

  • This version introduces major bugfixes.

New in AutoLaTeX 26.2 (Sep 26, 2013)

  • Major bugs in the management of subprocesses were fixed.
  • A '--continuous' CLI option was added to enable continuous execution of AutoLaTeX (for automatic building and viewer refreshing, for example).

New in AutoLaTeX 26.1 (Sep 24, 2013)

  • This version adds the CLI option ''--search-project-from": TeX editors can delegate to AutoLaTeX the detection of the AutoLaTeX configuration's directory.
  • In this way, most of the TeX editors can invoke AutoLaTex easily (TeXmaker, TeXworks, Kile, etc.).
  • The documentation has been updated with the configurations to add to TeXmaker, TeXworks, and Kile.

New in AutoLaTeX 25.5 (Sep 20, 2013)

  • This version adds major bugfixes in the LaTeX log parser and a minor feature enhancement in the progression indicator.

New in AutoLaTeX 24.2 (Sep 13, 2013)

  • Major bugfixes in the Log parsing.

New in AutoLaTeX 24.0 (Sep 9, 2013)

  • This version adds translator for the files dedicated to Graphic Layout Engine (gle) and Asymptote (asy).

New in AutoLaTeX 23.4 (Sep 6, 2013)

  • The error output from BibTeX and Biber are now parsed and displayed in a coherent way as for pdflatex.
  • The CLI option '--file-line-warning' is added to output the filename and the line of a warning.
  • The Gedit plugin displays all the warnings from the log file when the user double-clicks on a group of warnings in the LaTeX console.

New in AutoLaTeX 23.3 (Sep 5, 2013)

  • In the previous versions, LaTeX warnings were not output when pdflatex was run once.
  • This version fixes this major bug.
  • The Gedit plugin contains a new error console which display the errors and the warnings.
  • It allows the user to open the files where the errors are occurring.
  • Several minor bugs are also fixed.

New in AutoLaTeX 23.2 (Sep 4, 2013)

  • This version adds a minor bugfix in the configuration panel of the Gedit plugin.

New in AutoLaTeX 23.0 (Sep 3, 2013)

  • It is now possible to write the translator's specifications in an other script language than Perl (Python, Ruby, etc.).
  • A graphical tool (in the Gedit plugin) to create, import, or delete translation specifications is added.
  • Support for compressed SVG files as input files for the figures is added.
  • Several minor bugs were fixed.

New in AutoLaTeX 22.2 (Aug 30, 2013)

  • Replaces the deprecated GTK widgets with the recommended ones (issue #24).
  • Allows you to choose between the inherited values from system/user configuration files and values in the project configuration file (issue #25).

New in AutoLaTeX 22.1 (Aug 29, 2013)

  • This version adds a progress bar associated with the AutoLaTeX subprocesses and enables clicks in the AutoLateX error console to open the files at the line where a TeX error was detected.

New in AutoLaTeX 22.0 (Aug 26, 2013)

  • AutoLaTeX is now able to run the LaTeX tools with the SyncTeX options.
  • The configuration files can indicate whether SycTeX should be used.
  • The Gedit plugin controls and uses SyncTeX.

New in AutoLaTeX 21.4 (Aug 23, 2013)

  • This version adds a major bugfix in the Gedit plugin concerning the use of the Gsettings API.
  • The previous release may crash Gedit at startup due to this bug.

New in AutoLaTeX 21.0 (Aug 19, 2013)

  • The filename extensions for the SVG figures with embodied TeX macros (and for other picture formats with embodied TeX macros) were completed with ".tex.svg" and "+tex.svg".
  • A Gedit plugin was added into the AutoLaTeX distribution.
  • It provides a lightweight-IDE for LaTeX based on AutoLaTeX compilation process.

New in AutoLaTeX 20.0 (Aug 15, 2013)

  • AutoLaTeX now parses TeX documents to detect any use of Biblatex.
  • File dependencies are updated according to the use of Biblatex or another bibliography package.
  • If the backend of Biblatex is Biber, it is used in place of BibTeX.

New in AutoLaTeX 19.4 (Aug 13, 2013)

  • Complete rewriting of the source code in Perl. GNU Make is no more used to proceed the LaTeX compilation.
  • All the translator were refactoring from a GNU Make syntax to a syntax, which is including Perl code.
  • Add the target 'makeflat' on the commande line.
  • New translator for translating Open/Libre Office documents to PDF.

New in AutoLaTeX 19.2 (Jul 5, 2013)

  • Detection of the use of the multibib package from additional auxiliary files has been added to generate the corresponding bibliography files.

New in AutoLaTeX 19.1 (Jun 22, 2013)

  • This version fixes the option "makeflat", which could not retrieve images not automatically generated by AutoLaTeX (i.e., images which must be included as-is in the PDF document).

New in AutoLaTeX 18.1 (Jun 18, 2013)

  • This version displays only the first error message in place of the entire TeX log, removes the background in the SVG generated by Astah Pro, and adds minor enhancements and bugfixes.

New in AutoLaTeX 18.0 (Jun 13, 2013)

  • This version adds translators from SVG and Dia, combined with TeX macros, fixes the macros inside "autolatex.sty" to provide an interface similar to "graphicx.sty", and fixes several major bugs.

New in AutoLaTeX 17.1 (May 30, 2013)

  • Major bugs are fixed in the GNU plot to PDF converter with embedded TeX macros, and the index style passed on the CLI is given to makeindex.

New in AutoLaTeX 16.0 (May 23, 2013)

  • Complete rewriting of the source code in Perl. GNU Make is no more used to proceed the LaTeX compilation.
  • All the translator were refactoring from a GNU Make syntax to a syntax, which is including Perl code.
  • Add the target 'makeflat' on the commande line.
  • New translator for translating Open/Libre Office documents to PDF.

New in AutoLaTeX 15.0 (May 16, 2013)

  • The professional, uml, and community editions of Astah may now be used by autolatex to create PNG and PDF figures from Astah documents.

New in AutoLaTeX 12.1 (Feb 22, 2012)

  • This version fixes the filename extensions associated with the Astah Community UML editor: ".asta" and ".jude".

New in AutoLaTeX 10.3 (Jan 17, 2012)

  • autolatex: The the pattern "*.spl" into the files to clean.

New in AutoLaTeX 10.2 (Dec 14, 2010)

  • autolatex: --set command line option on internal variables of translators is not rightly executed. Update the generated Makefile to fix this problem.
  • autolatex: translator internal variables are now setable in configuration files.

New in AutoLaTeX 10.1 (Dec 13, 2010)

  • autolatex: Add default values for the text width and the tab size used by the translators from source code to tex.
  • autolatex: Enhance command line to support internal parameters definition for translators.

New in AutoLaTeX 9.0 (Dec 13, 2010)

  • New file extensions are supported by the cleaning operation.
  • The command line to enable and disable BibTeX invocation has been added.

New in AutoLaTeX 7.1 (Oct 7, 2009)

  • A warning is displayed by the default Makefile when it tries to display the list of the auto-generated pictures when the "auto-generation" flag is set to false.

New in AutoLaTeX 6.1 (Sep 16, 2009)

  • Fixed Bug: the autolatex_find does not treat the --not parameter.
  • Fixed Bug: the imggz2eps plugin does not detect the source images.