zoem

The default search path was changed so that Aephea is automatically found if zoem and aephea are installed with the same prefix. The primitive set#3 can now splice into a variable, supporting simple line-based ascii-diagrams.

In interactive mode, zoem can utilize readline editing and history capabilities, if available. A new built-in macro seq#4 can be used as a simple type of for loop. Environments that are not closed at the end of processing are now reported in a diagnostic message.

The HTML document framework has been wrapped up and split off under the name Aephea (adaptable exo-skeleton for practical HTML extension and abstraction), and PUD (Portable UNIX Documentation) is shipped with Aephea. The zoem package now only provides resources and documentation for the macro/programming language zoem itself.

A bug causing crashes and stray zoem output on
certain platforms has
been fixed. This bug was present in previous
releases as well, but many
platforms were unaffected by it.

A bug in set#3 was removed, and a batch definition mode and a more legible way of appending to keys were added. Keys local to environments can now be defined using the same signature as when invoked. This release also continues the focus on retiring what few special case syntax still exists. The format#2 specification syntax has been reworked (in an incompatible way) into a standard and extensible key-value syntax. The format#2 implementation was redone and several new directives were added. XML/HTML syntactic sugar now stops introducing whitespace formatting when so instructed.