Just re-released 3.3.9 as 3.4, to give us an up-to-date stable
release. It probably should have set awhile longer to ferret out bug
reports, but I was eager to get on to the 3.4 round, and thus
eventually to 4.xx.  No need to upgrade if you are already on 3.3.9,
but I will be maintaining 3.4 for a bit, at least until 3.5 is out, so
the two may diverge eventually.  And then 3.5 should be the end of the
3.xx series, and we get to start exploring some bigger stuff for 4.xx.

I also released 3.4.1, a more experimental release with the new
linespacing code I've been working on.  To do this right is an
extremely challenging task, but I think we are pretty close.
Basically, BoltWire now waits until all the markup has been executed,
then breaks the output down, line by line tries to analyze each one,
and figure out what kind of html it should be wrapped in. And that's
the trick--BoltWire has to play mind reader... But hey, take a look at
the output for yourself.

http://www.boltwire.com/files/boltwire3.4.1.zip

I'd recommend trying this one on an experimental site. I've done a
fair bit of testing, but keep finding little oddities here and there.
It's looking quite good at the moment, but I'm soliciting testing help
to find anything that is less than ideal html. And bugs/glitches of
course. There's still a few issues in my inbox, but I wanted to get
this out first. I'll try and examine the other stuff when I get some
time, and work them into 3.4.2, along with any improvements you can
suggest for the new code.

>From the change log:

* A major overhaul of the linespacing problem to generate MUCH smarter
(and more beautiful) html output. Should be a fairly easy upgrade, but
some sites may experience minor disruptions--particularly if you have
various display hacks in your markup.
* Table nesting is now done similarly to our conditionals, with
[t*][r][c][t*], meaning only one level of nesting can be done.
* Renamed the honorlines site.config parameter to autolines.

Note: This release involves many minor changes to the code, including
significant changes to the markup table, a couple new functions
(vspace, vspacecheck), and a renamed function (stripquotes =>
trimChars), plus probably more things I can't recall. Consider this
release highly experimental, and plan to take some time to review your
site carefully after upgrading for minor formatting changes changes.
Thanks for helping polishing this release up. You gotta see the new
html... Good stuff!

Cheers,
Dan

P.S. I have a couple minor things I plan to do with BoltWire's
searching engine to increase performance and add flexibility, using
some custom code I have running on my site. That's about it on my list
for 3.5. The restructuring of the forms engine won't be a terribly
challenging task, but I plan to make that a part of 4.xx.

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