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27 November 2010
The new blahtexml 0.9 offers better support for inline vs block equations.
Inline equations are displayed in the text, while block (or "display") equations are displayed stand-alone. In the latter case, TeX adapts its rendering, such as moving the limits of sums below and above the sum symbol.
This translates into the following changes in blahtex and blahtexml. For blahtex, the --displaymath option is now a general option, which causes the equation to be set in block mode, both for MathML and PNG outputs. For blahtexml (with --xmlin), each equation can be given as inline or block. It now properly converts block equations in display style.
Blahtexml 0.8 released
8 March 2010
In this release, blahtexml 0.8 supports Xerces-C 3.0 in addition to version 2.8.
As added functionality, blahtexml can produce annotations with TeX and/or PNG outputs (options --annotate-TeX and --annotate-PNG), in parallel to the MathML code. This way, the XML output produced by blahtexml contains mathematical formulas in up to three different formats simultaneously: MathML, TeX and as PNG images. Subsequent filters or XML processors can take advantage of this to produce documents in different formats from the same source.
Blahtexml packaged for Ubuntu
3 October 2009
Blahtexml is packaged for Ubuntu, thanks to Abhishek Dasgupta
Blahtexml 0.7 released under the BSD license
10 August 2009
The main change in blahtexml 0.7 is that the source code of blahtex and blahtexml has been released under the BSD license, in agreement with David Harvey. At the same time, the text of the manual is released under the Creative Commons Attribution license.
In addition, LaTeX code can be inserted before purified TeX equations (e.g., to change fonts) for PNG output (thanks to Mikkel Ricky), and support for the Ångström symbol has been added (thanks to Paul Dlug).
Blahtexml 0.6 is out
27 July 2008
Besides some bug fixing, the only change in blahtexml 0.6 since the last version is the possibility to render "display math" formulas in PNG, thanks to a patch by Ari Stern.
Blahtexml 0.5 is out
16 May 2008
The main difference of blahtexml 0.5 with version 0.4.4 is that both blahtex and blahtexml now accept Unicode mathematical symbols and Greek letters as input in math mode. These symbols are equivalent to their command counterparts. For instance, the following two lines are equivalent and will give the same output:
<eq b:inline="\Phi \leq \Omega \approx \Gamma"/><eq b:inline="Φ≤Ω≈Γ"/>
The first line uses the traditional TeX commands, while the second line uses the Unicode symbols directly. The full list of accepted symbols can be found in the manual.