Thanks 
Any plans to add native support for "alt text" when converting markdwon to 
pdf?
Currently, i either have to learn another language (Lua) or convert to word 
first, then to pdf.
Neither of which are optimal
cheers

On Tuesday, June 30, 2020 at 1:22:28 AM UTC-4 John MacFarlane 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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