Re: ANN: pandoc 2.10

["Lloyd R. Prentice" <lloyd-l7gIAb2iU4jcM+WK4BI3xw@public.gmane.org>]

Many thanks for wonderful work!

LRP

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> On Jun 30, 2020, at 1:22 AM, John MacFarlane <jgm-TVLZxgkOlNX2fBVCVOL8/A@public.gmane.org> wrote:
> 
> 
> I'm pleased to announce the release of pandoc 2.10,
> available in the usual places:
> 
> Binary packages & changelog:
>  https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/releases/tag/2.10
> 
> Source & API documentation:
>  http://hackage.haskell.org/package/pandoc-2.10
> 
> Some highlights:
> 
>  * Pandoc can now be compiled with ghc 8.10.
> 
>  * A native Underline constructor for Inline (#6277, Vaibhav Sagar)
>    and more consistent treatment of underlined text in readers
>    and writers.
> 
>  * More expressive types for tables (#1024, Christian Despres).
>    Tables can now take attributes; and rowspans and colspans,
>    column headers, multiple row headers, table head and foot
>    can all be represented.  (Note, however, that reader and
>    writer support for these features is still lacking, so
>    most users won't see any differences in table conversion
>    yet.  These changes just lay the foundation for further
>    improvements.)
> 
>  * Templates can now use the pipes `first`, `rest`, `last`, and
>    `allbutlast` on arrays.
> 
>  * A new `--no-check-certificate` option to disable certificate
>    validation when resources are fetched by HTTP (#6156, Cédric Couralet,
>    Cécile Chemin, Juliette Fourcot).
> 
>  * Boolean fields now work in metadata within defaults files
>    (Nikolay Yakimov, #6328).
> 
>  * The `implicit_figures` extension now works with commonmark
>    and gfm (#6350).
> 
>  * We now target version 4.x of reveal.js.  File locations have
>    changed, so if you are using pandoc-produced reveal.js files
>    with a local copy of reveal.js, you will need to upgrade.
> 
>  * epub.css has changed to wrap overlong lines in highlighted code
>    blocks (#6242).  This fixes a problem in iBooks v2.4 with our earlier
>    horizontally scrolling code blocks.  The problem seems to
>    be a bug in iBooks, not pandoc, but since iBooks is a major
>    target we're changing pandoc's default behavior so that
>    pandoc-produced epubs work on that platform.
> 
>  * Many other bug fixes and small improvements (see the changelog
>    for details).
> 
> API changes:
> 
>  * New Underline constructor for Inline and new Table types for Block.
> 
>  * Use new type PandocLua for all pandoc Lua operations.
> 
>  * Use PandocError for exceptions in Lua subsystem.
> 
> Thanks to everyone who contributed, and especially Christian Despres for
> creating the new table types and modifying the whole code base to use it,
> Vaibhav Sagar for implenting the Underline constructor, Mathieu Boespflug for
> improving the DocBook reader, Joseph C. Sible for many code improvements and
> some important fixes to Text.Pandoc.UUID, and Albert Krewinkel for work on the
> lua subsystem, Jira reader and writer, Org reader and writer, and JATS reader.
> Thanks, as well, to those who have raised issues, participated in discussions,
> and helped to triage bugs.
> 
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