Re: ANN: pandoc 2.0

[John MACFARLANE <jgm-TVLZxgkOlNX2fBVCVOL8/A@public.gmane.org>]

Correct.

+++ BP Jonsson [Oct 30 17 11:23 ]:
>   So there are no AST/JSON format changes?
>   /bpj
>
>   Den 30 okt 2017 01:16 skrev "John MacFarlane" <[1]jgm-TVLZxgkOlNX2fBVCVOL8/A@public.gmane.org>:
>
>     I'm delighted to announce the release of pandoc 2.0.
>     Binary packages and a changelog can be found at
>     <[2]https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/releases/tag/2.0>.  The source
>     code and API documentation is on Hackage:
>     <[3]https://hackage.haskell.org/package/pandoc>.
>     This is a huge release:  describing all the changes takes over
>     11,000 words in the changelog.  All users should look at the
>     "new features" and "behavior changes" sections of the
>     changelog.  Those who use pandoc as a library should also look
>     at the "API changes" section.  And anyone who works with a
>     particular format should look at the "bug fixes" section
>     for relevant to that format.
>     Some highlights:
>     - New output formats:  ms (groff ms), jats (JATS XML), gfm (a
>      version of GitHub-Flavored Markdown that uses the same
>      parser as GitHub for maximum accuracy), muse (Emacs Muse).
>     - New input formats:  gfm, muse, tikiwiki (TikiWiki),
>      vimwiki (Vimwiki), creole (Creole 1.0).
>     - A plain-text syntax for Divs (arbitrary block containers).
>     - A syntax for passing through raw content in any format.
>     - Much improved support for LaTeX input, especially
>      in handling macros and included files.
>     - PDFs can now be produced via pdfroff, prince, and weasyprint,
>      in addition to latex, xelatex, lualatex, context, and
>      wkhtmltopdf.
>     - A new way of writing pandoc filters in lua, using the lua
>      interpreter that is built into pandoc.  Lua filters are
>      generally much faster than JSON filters (since we avoid
>      the expense of converting to and from JSON), and they have
>      the advantage that they do not require any software besides
>      pandoc itself to be installed.
>     - Better error handling, warnings and informational messages.
>     - New command-line options:
>      --eol (specifies line endings),
>      --log (prints JSON representation of info and warning messages),
>      --request-header (allows specifying a header to be used when
>        pandoc fetches external resources),
>      --lua-filter (for running lua filters, see below),
>      --epub-subdirectory (for changing the directory used in epub
>        containers),
>      --resource-path (for setting the search path for images and
>        other resources),
>      --abbreviations (for specifying a custom abbreviations
>        file so that the Markdown parser can be sensitive to
>        abbreviations),
>      --syntax-definition (allowing XML syntax highlighting definitions
>        to be loaded dynamically).
>     - Changed command-line options:
>      --reference-doc replaces --reference-docx and --reference-odt
>      --smart removed (instead use +smart on reader and/or writer)
>      --normalize removed (normalization is automatic)
>      --latex-engine removed (instead use --pdf-engine)
>      --parse-raw removed (instead use -f latex+raw_tex or -f
>     html+raw_html)
>      --epub-stylesheet removed (instead use --css)
>      --mathml no longer takes an argument
>     The focus of this release was a major architectural change
>     that will be largely invisible to users of the pandoc program,
>     but that is responsible for many of the improvements users
>     will notice.  Previously, most of the pandoc readers and
>     writers were "pure" functions: they converted between strings
>     and a Pandoc data structure, without being able to perform IO
>     operations.  This purity has significant advantages in many
>     contexts, but it also makes it difficult to do things like
>     process included files.  We have changed the types of all the
>     readers and writers so that users can now select whether
>     they will have access to IO.
>     With each release, pandoc becomes more a team effort, with more
>     contributors committing high-quality code.  Special thanks are
>     due to Jesse Rosenthal, who designed and initiated the large
>     architectural change described above; Albert Krewinkel,
>     who added the lua filters and improved the Org reader, as well
>     as helping with the API reorganization; Alexander Krotov,
>     who contributed the Muse reader and writer and improved the
>     FB2 writer; Andrew Dunning, Vaclav Haisman, Xavier Olive, and
>     Thomas Hodgson, who improved the LaTeX, ConTeXt, and beamer
>     templates; Kolen Cheung, who improved documentation and
>     infrastructure (pandoc-nightly); Marc Schreiber, who improved
>     the LaTeX reader; Mauro Bieg, who improved the LaTeX reader and
>     image size code, and added PDF generation via weasyprint and
>     prince; Sascha Wilde, who added the Creole reader; Yuchen Pei,
>     who added the Vimwiki reader; hftf, who brought consistency to
>     the readers' handling of underlining; and rlpowell, who added the
>     TikiWiki reader.  Many others contributed code, bug reports, or
>     suggestions.  Without this large and cooperative community, pandoc
>     would be a far less capable tool.
>     Happy converting!
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>   3. https://hackage.haskell.org/package/pandoc
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