[Emacro-devel] emacro 2.9.6beta

[Bruce I. <ing...@ve...>]

EMacro team-

I've been busy with a new product at work, but found time over the 
holiday weekend here, to finish EMacro 2.9.6 beta. (I skipped 2.9.5 by 
accident)

I now disabled flyspell by default, as it really slowed Emacs on a 2GHz 
Pentium 4.

This has new local language support, and I've overhauled CVS, as well at 
the HTML documentation, which now is fully XHTML 1.1 and CSS compliant.
It probably breaks old browsers, but works fine on the latest releases 
of IE, Mozilla Firefox and Lynx.

EMacro is now in feature freeze, and when I hear no more bug reports, I 
will release EMacro into production.

This version now supports international languages for setup, and the 
architecture is in place to translate the HTML documentation.
Any volunteers?
BTW, there's much to translate, but it does not have to be all at once, 
and machines such as Babelfish help.

I'm also BCCing the translators, who made the localized language for the 
install possible. I am thanking them, by putting their names in the 
credits page.

Language issues:
I could not take the time, to figure out how to effectively support 2 
character sets for Russian.
Right now, I added both, but chose only one to be active. Perhaps I will 
check for Windows OS, and
use UTF-8, and KOI8-R otherwise.

I know that Emacs supports Arabic, but I have no experience with MULE, 
LEIM, and bidirectional editing, to make this happen. The search link to 
EmacsWiki on the new home page may help here.

If anyone is interested in RSS feeds, I could use some help in creating 
a column for the home page, and streaming in updates from Emacs Wiki.
I also teach a class in HTML part-time. I use the EMacro site as an 
example of quality HTML authorship. OK, it does not have a pretty 
colored background, or many images, but the code is clean.
I've thought of adding things like a P3P.xml rating.
I'm not sure, if there is something, which tells that the EMacro site is 
suitable for children, or other enhancements or standards, but I am open 
to suggestions.

I appreciate the help from the community, which makes Emacro the 
polished product it is today!