introduce op::strong_X

This was prompted by reports by Andrew Wells and Yong Li.

* NEWS, doc/tl/tl.tex: Document the changes.
* THANKS: Add Andrew.
* bin/ltlfilt.cc: Match --ltl before --from-ltlf if needed.
* spot/parsetl/parsedecl.hh, spot/parsetl/parsetl.yy,
spot/parsetl/scantl.ll: Parse X[!].
* spot/tl/formula.cc, spot/tl/formula.hh: Declare the new operator.
* spot/tl/ltlf.cc: Adjust to handle op::X and op::strong_X correctly.
* spot/tl/dot.cc, spot/tl/mark.cc, spot/tl/mutation.cc,
spot/tl/print.cc, spot/tl/simplify.cc, spot/tl/snf.cc,
spot/tl/unabbrev.cc, spot/twa/formula2bdd.cc,
spot/twaalgos/ltl2taa.cc, spot/twaalgos/ltl2tgba_fm.cc,
tests/core/ltlgrind.test, tests/core/rand.test,
tests/core/sugar.test, tests/python/randltl.ipynb: Adjust.
* tests/core/ltlfilt.test, tests/core/sugar.test,
tests/core/utf8.test: More tests.
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New in spot 2.8.1.dev (not yet released)
Library:
- Historically, Spot only supports LTL with infinite semantics
so it had automatic simplifications reducing X(1) and X(0) to
1 and 0 whenever such formulas are constructed. This
caused issues for users of LTLf formulas, where it is important
to distinguish a "weak next" (for which X(1)=1 but X(0)!=0) from
a "strong next" (for which X(0)=0 but X(1)!=1).
To accomodate this, this version introduces a new operator
op::strong_X in addition to the existing op::X (whose
interpretation is now weak in LTLf). The syntax for the strong
next is X[!] as a reference to the PSL syntax (where the strong
next is written X!).
Trivial simplification rules for X are changed to just
X(1) = 1 (and not X(0)=0 anymore)
while we have
X[!]0 = 0
The X(0)=0 and X[!]1=1 reductions are now preformed during LTL
simplification, not automatically. Aside from the from_ltlf()
function, the other functions of the library handle X and X[!] in
the same way, since there is no different between X and X[!] over
infinite words.
Operators F[n:m!] and G[n:m!] are also supported as strong
variants of F[n:m] and G[n:m], but those four are only implemented
as syntactic sugar.
Bugs fixed:
- Calling "autfilt --dualize" on an alternating automaton with