Speech-Rule-Engine/speech-rule-engine v4.1.0

Version 4.1.0

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New features

• Afrikaans locale
• Euro Braille implementation with direct LaTeX input
• Korean Localization by @aintbe

New Heuristics

New semantic heuristics and Improvements to existing ones. In particular,

• New Text heuristics that distinguishes genuine text elements from expression that only use text to enforce font change to roman.
• New big operator heuristic
• Improved limit heurstic

Walkers

• Changes to the walkers in line with the new exploration model in MathJax
• Improves walking to work with line-broken elements
• Correct treatment of all maction elements with toggle attribute.

Other Changes

• Removes menu computations for MathJax.
• Improves handling of alphabet generation, thereby reducing the size of the single mathmaps files as well as locale files.
• Automatic marking of elements in the SSML renderer. Removes the step renderer as it is no longer necessary.
• Hides generation of Aria attributes behind a new flag.
• Improves aria annotations for enriched MathML to support aria tree role.
• Additional flags for
  • structural output
  • ssml markup
  • 2d nemeth
• When the structure feature is set, we now also add the aria elements to define the tree.

Locales

• Simplifications of locale handling
• Improved grammatical constructs
• nemeth linebreaking

Build

• SRE is now using pnpm as package manager.
• Updates build process to use ES modules instead of commonjs.
• For compatibility reasons commonjs are still created and both module and commonjs sources are
• New package structure:
  • js contains JavaScript files in ES module format.
  • cjs contains JavaScript files in commanjsE format.
  • bin, lib, index.js as usual.
• XML handling now based on the latest @xmldom/xmldom library, making xmldom-sre obsolete.
• commander module move to into CLI module only, to make the rest independent.
• Removes all namespaces and default exports
• Improved detection of mathmaps folder.

Bug Fixes

Amongst others:

• Initialisation bug in tree colorer
• Firefox related Xpath issue in tree colorer
• Correct semantic skeleton for matrix-like structures
• Corrected Xpath handling provides improved reading of tensor rules.
• Correctly identifies all newly created elements during the enrichment process by adding an added attribute.
• Security fix #702
• A number of bug fixes
• Fix for external module loading for ES6 modules. require.mjs module to include in import statements to ensure smooth loading.

New Contributors

• @aintbe made their first contribution in #637

Full Changelog: v4.0.0...v4.1.0