---- what's new in ReDIF-perl v 2.19 ---------------------------------------

  - new templates validation rule: if an error happens while checking
    value of an attribute which is not required, the error is turned 
    into a warning

  - now rech always quotes the original data text on errors & warnings
    (before that it was close to original but reformated).

  - fixed processing of "X-" attributes, including cluster-level:
    (e.g. author-x-haircolor: red)

  - removed huge flow of warnings generated in "perl -w" mode.  that may be
    incomplete.  please let me know if you come accross any unfixed causes

  - unicode (UTF-8) support.  see README.unicode for more info

  - completely new parser interface module ReDIF::Parser with new
    capabilities (see ReDIF::Parser manpage).  use it instead of
    outdated and deprecated rr.pm!

  - changed redif.spec format: more readable, easier to understand.
    among the rest, it now has version parameter.

  - new redif.spec features: RePEc handles case-correction and some other

  - now continuation lines in ReDIF templates doesn't have to start
    with a whitespace, it would be enough that they don't start with 
    an attribute-like construct: /^[a-zA-Z\-]+:/ (so called
    "sloppy-lines")

  - another potentially problematic change: now even if using rr.pm,
    the attribute values don't have some formatting it used to have.
    Line-break characters in the multi-line attribute values are not
    eliminited anymore.  They used to be joined into a single line.

  - changed some options of rech and rere, see their respective
    manpages for details.  rech now doesn't need a configuration file
    and has new (improved) output format    

  - ReDIF::init's initialize() is now silent by default

  - added lots of tests for automated and simplified code quality control

  - added/updated more documentation bits and pieces in pod (manpages)
    and in READMEs

  - almost every piece of old code rewritten, became more readable,
    manageable, more logically structured into modules

