Pointless 0.5

Pointless is a tool for creating and viewing slideshows. Presentations are made using a simple markup-language and then they are rendered using FreeType and OpenGL for optimal visual quality.

Enhancements:
- Disable x11-vidmode by default due to refresh rate problems on some platforms (Jacob)
- Fixed run-time problem on Mandrake reported by chlor@schou.dk (Jacob)
- Fixed install problem on FreeBSD reported by xi@borderworlds.dk (Jacob)
- Renamed --export tgz option to --packtgz to seperate from merger (Peter)
- Fixed problem with pointer allowed outside window in fullscreen (Peter)
- Fixed bug in paragraph breaker; testcase test011.pll. (Peter)
- Fixed reported bug about =latex and empty input (Jacob)
- Fixed bug in unicode module (Peter)
- Fixed module install bug reported by Dag Wieers (Jacob)
- Shortcut keys (shift + h/l/right/left) for leafing through slides (Peter)
- Fixed bug 825742 about fullscreen mode not working. (Jacob / Peter)
- Added =shell for easy integration of shell commands that outputs text (Jacob)
- Allow scaling to gnuplot and code module (Jacob)
- Fixed bug where nonsensical things like =begin-step was allowed (Peter)
- Added simple dropshadow feature (=setdropshadow) (Peter)
- Fixed crash-bug related to the unicode module (Peter)
- Fixed crash-bug related to =verb (Peter)
- Made scale of metapost available (Jacob)
- Created src/pypath.sh helping pointless-hackers to set up PYTHONPATH (Peter)
- Made scale of latex available (Peter)
- Created src/pypath.sh helping pointless-hackers to set up PYTHONPATH (Peter)
- Made scale of latex available (Peter)
- Added utility xml2pll based on templates from Matthew Johnson (Jacob)
- Construct python packages for our extra modules (Jacob)
- Reducing memory consumptions (Jacob)
- Reducing CPU consumptions (Peter)
- Fixed bugs in the parser (Jacob)
- Made pointless a python extension instead of an application that used python embedded (Jacob)
- Fixed bug reported by chlor@schou.dk with powersave and fullscreen (Jacob)
- Fixed bug in metapost support reported by Anders Misfeldt (Peter)
- Added support for dynamic linkage (configure option) (Jacob)
- Added support for python2.3 too (Jacob,Peter)
- Fixed bug with sysconfdir reported by Marco Presi (Jacob)
- Added support for tgz export (Jacob)
- Added support for tar.gz/tgz input (Jacob)
- Added support for stdin input (Jacob)
- Added support for tables, =table, =cel, =row (Peter)