NEWS

   1 SEMI NEWS --- history of major-changes.
   2 Copyright (C) 1998 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
   3 \f
   4 * Changes in SEMI 1.1
   5
   6 ** User setting
   7
   8 *** Setting variable about visible body
   9
  10   'mime-view-visible-media-type-list and
  11 'mime-view-content-filter-alist were abolished.  Please use
  12 'mime-preview-condition instead.
  13
  14   Notice that 'mime-preview-condition is not list of
  15 media-type/subtype string nor association-list.  It uses new
  16 data-structure `ctree' (condition-tree; it is introduced to replace
  17 `atype').  Function 'ctree-set-calist-strictly and
  18 'ctree-set-calist-with-default may be useful to modify it (`calist'
  19 (condition-alist) is as same as `atype').
  20
  21
  22 *** API about visible-predicates
  23
  24   Interface of visible-predicates for entity elements were changed.
  25 New interfaces are following:
  26
  27     mime-view-entity-button-visible-p (entity message-info)
  28
  29     mime-view-header-visible-p (entity message-info)
  30
  31     mime-view-body-visible-p (entity message-info)
  32
  33     mime-view-entity-separator-visible-p (entity message-info)
  34
  35
  36 ** API
  37
  38 *** entity representation
  39
  40   Structure 'mime-entity-info was renamed to 'mime-entity.  So various
  41 functions were renamed too.
  42
  43
  44 *** Interface for entity-button generators
  45
  46   Interface of entity-button generators was changed.  New interfaces
  47 is following:
  48
  49     mime-view-insert-entity-button (entity message-info subject)
  50
  51
  52 *** mime-preview-condition and preview-situation
  53
  54   Conditions about preview generation are unified to
  55 'mime-preview-condition.  Namely other variables, such as
  56 'mime-view-visible-media-type-list, 'mime-view-content-filter-alist,
  57 were abolished.
  58
  59   Preview-situation is generated from entity information, running
  60 environment and 'mime-preview-condition.  These elements are checked
  61 to match with each other. (it is similar to acting-situation)
  62
  63   Format of preview-situation is association-list.  Following key is
  64 pre-defined:
  65
  66         'type                     media-type
  67         'subtype                  media-subtype
  68         'encoding                 content-transfer-encoding
  69         'major-mode               major-mode of MUA
  70         <STRING>                  attribute of Content-Type field.
  71         'body-presentation-method body-presentation-method
  72
  73 If 'body-presentation-method is 'with-filter, 'body-filter is used to
  74 specify body-filter function.  If 'body-presentation-method is
  75 function, it is called to generate presentation of entity body.
  76
  77 Setting for message/partial button is specified by
  78 'mime-preview-condition instead of hard-coding.
  79
  80
  81 *** Interface for body-filter
  82
  83   Interface of body-filter was changed.  New interfaces is following:
  84
  85     <body-filter> (situation)
  86
  87 Current pre-defined filters are following:
  88
  89         mime-view-filter-for-text/plain (situation)
  90         mime-view-filter-for-text/richtext (situation)
  91         mime-view-filter-for-text/enriched (situation)
  92         mime-view-filter-for-image (situation) ; if available
  93
  94 'mime-view-filter-for-application/postscript was abolished.
  95
  96
  97 *** Format of mime-acting-condition (acting-situation)
  98
  99   Format of `mime-acting-condition' were changed.  `type' and
 100 `subtype' are separated and changed to symbol.
 101
 102
 103 *** Renaming
 104
 105 - mime-view-buffer -> mime-preview-buffer
 106
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 108 Local variables:
 109 mode: outline
 110 paragraph-separate: "[  \f]*$"
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