ANN: pandoc 2.18

ANN: pandoc 2.18

[John MacFarlane]

I'm pleased to announce the release of pandoc 2.18,
available in the usual places:

Binary packages & changelog:
  https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/releases/tag/2.18

Source & API documentation:
  http://hackage.haskell.org/package/pandoc-2.18

In addition to the usual under-the-hood improvements
and bug fixes, there are some new features:

* New input formats: endnotexml and ris bibliographies.

* A RIS bibliography file may now be used with `--citeproc`.

* Citeproc now allows a formatted bibliography to be placed
  in a metadata field (and thus to be placed at an arbitrary
  position in a template).  To do this, include a metadata
  field (say, 'refs') whose content is an empty Div with id 'refs'.

* Metadata files specified with --metadata-file are now sought
  in $DATADIR/metadata if not found locally.

* --self-contained now issues a warning rather than failing with
  an error when a resource cannot be found.

* The LaTeX reader will now skip parts of local packages imported with
  \usepackage that it cannot parse.

* The Lua interface adds a new module pandoc.layout, allows any
  type of callable object as an argument to list functions
  filter, map, and find_if, and allows passing a Sources object
  to pandoc.read.

* wkhtmltopdf is again the default PDF engine for HTML.

* LaTeX and JATS templates have been revised, so take note if you
  use custom templates.

* A new compiler flag lua53 (false by default) will cause pandoc
  to be built with embedded Lua 5.3.  By default Lua 5.4 will be
  embedded.  pandoc --version will now tell you which version of
  Lua is embedded.

API changes:

* New exported module Text.Pandoc.Readers.RIS (readRIS).

* New exported module Text.Pandoc.Readers.EndNote (readEndNoteXML,
  readEndNoteXMLCitation).

* Text.Pandoc.Logging: Add CouldNotParseIncludeFile constructor for
  LogMessage.

* Text.Pandoc.Error: Export PandocCouldNotFindMetadataFileError
  constructor for PandocError.

* Text.Pandoc.Parsing: Change type of tableWith' and gridTableWith'
  so they return a structured TableComponents rather than a tuple.
  Export tableWith', TableComponents, TableNormalization,
  toTableComponents, toTableComponents'.

* Text.Pandoc.XML.Light: Export parseXMLElementWithEntities,
  parseXMLContentsWithEntities (these allow specifying a custom entity map).
  
* Text.Pandoc.Class: Export readMetadataFile.

Thanks to everyone who contributed, especially new contributers
Dmitris Apostolou, Guriy Samarin, Ivar de Bruin, Jaap de Jong,
Jonathan Dönszelmann, Lucas V. R, Mario Lang, Naveen, Ola Wolska,
damon-sava-stanley, mjfs.

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Re: ANN: pandoc 2.18

[John MacFarlane]

I forgot to mention a major feature that was added:  if you
add the `citations` extension to `docx` (`-f docx+citations`),
pandoc can now extract embedded Zotero, Mendeley, and EndNote
citations and treat them as native pandoc citations (so that
you can use `--citeproc` with them).  If the `citations`
extension is not used, then the text generated by the citation
plugin is just translated as usual.