pandoc 3.6.2

[jgm]

I'm pleased to announce the release of pandoc 3.6.2,
available in the usual places:

Binary packages & changelog:
https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/releases/tag/3.6.2

Source & API documentation:
http://hackage.haskell.org/package/pandoc-3.6.2

This release adds a new reader for the POD (Plain Old Documentation)
used in Perl documentation. It also fixes several bugs, including
a few regressions introduced in pandoc 3.6:

* EPUB v2 cover images should now work again.
* Parsing of underscores in RST should now work again.

API changes:

* New reader module Text.Pandoc.Readers.Pod, exporting readPod.

See the changelog for full details on what has changed.

Thanks to all who contributed, especially Evan Silberman for the
new POD reader and new contributors Santiago Zarate and Stéphane
Guillou.

Click to expand changelog

• New output format: pod (Evan Silberman). Pod (“Plain old documentation”) is a markup languaged used principally to document Perl modules and programs.

• New reader module Text.Pandoc.Readers.Pod, exporting readPod [API change].

• Docx reader:

  • Support row heads in tables (DOCX reader to support row head #9495). Reader: When w:tblLook has w:firstColumn set (or an equivalent bit mask), we set row heads = 1 in the AST.
  • Read table styles as custom styles when styles extension is enabled (DOCX Reader to support DOCX table custom style #9603).

• HTML reader:

  • Add size information for font awesome SVG icons (HTML -> PDF: SVG icons come out huge #10134). If the icon has class fa-fw or fa-w16 or fa-w14, we add a width attribute to prevent the icon from appearing full-width in PDF or docx output.

• Djot reader:

  • Use a Span with class “mark” rather than “highlighted” for highlighted text, for consistency with the other pandoc readers and writers.

• mandoc reader:

  • Add mdoc St for C23 (Evan Silberman).

• RST reader:

  • Fix handling of underscores (Double underscores in .rst confuse parsing, new in 3.6 #10497). Fixes a a regression introduced in 3.6.

• Docx writer:

  • Support row heads in tables (DOCX reader to support row head #9495). Writer: set w:firstColumn in w:tblLook when there are row heads. (Word only allows one, so this is triggered by any number of row heads > 0.)

• Djot writer:

  • Render a Span with sole class “mark” as highlighted text.

• Asciidoc writer:

  • Don’t emit the class in a span if it’s just “mark” (Asciidoc highlighting not working from Pandoc's highlighting / mark class #10511). The “mark” class is used for highlighting, and Asciidoc treats bare #...# with no attributes as highlighted text.
  • Improve escaping (Plus signs are not properly escaped in AsciiDoc #10385, un-escaped characters for asciidoc output #2337, bug: asciidoc export: literal "]" interrupts footnote. #6424).

• EPUB v2 writer:

  • Fix cover image (No Cover image on Mac epub icon or in Apple Books. #10505). This is a regression introduced in 3.6.

• Typst writer:

  • Fix handling of pixel image dimensions (typst: width and height do not convert unitless numbers to inches #9945). These are now converted to inches as in the LaTeX writer.

• Improve error message given when users specify asciidoc as input format (Better error message when trying to use output-only format for input #8416, Santiago Zarate).

• Allow random 1.3.

• Use texmath 0.12.8.13 (typst improvements).

• lua-filters.md: document system.os return values (Document where pandoc.system.os gets its values #10523).

• MANUAL.txt:

  • Improve manual’s coverage of custom styles.
  • Replace LibreOffice PDF documentation link to latest so it links to the latest major release rather than a specific major release (which there are two of every year) (Stéphane Guillou).
  • Improve links and descriptions for odt, opendocument (Docs: clarify difference between odt and opendocument output formats (and fix old link) #10518).

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This discussion was created from the release pandoc 3.6.2.

[benz0li]

Unofficial Linux/RISC-V 64-bit (linux/riscv64) release assets are available at https://gitlab.b-data.ch/jgm/pandoc/-/releases/3.6.2.