AutoLaTeX 51.1

2026-04-21

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SVG Translator - Bug fix

• Introduce the utility class 'SvgUtils" for generating layered figures from SVG layers.
• Add Beamer class that provides functions for parsing the overlay specifications from Beamer.
• Re-implement the SVG translators from layered SVG for using the just introduced SvgUtils class.

Documentation

• Replace the Perl POD manual by a Markdown manual, and use pandoc to generate all the associated documentation files (README...).
• Specify the time unit for sleep duration in the documentation.
• Update the building process figure in the documentation.
• Update the SOTA table.
• With setup.py, create a PDF for the documentation.

Developers and Contributors

Packaging

• In setup.py, create a Bash script for developpers named autolatex.sh.
• Fixing documentation and packaging according to CTAN requirements.

Tests

• Remove hard-coded version from configobj_test.