pandoc 1.13.0.1

This release fixes a couple of serious regressions in 1.13.

• Docx writer:
  • Fixed regression which bungled list numbering (#1544), causing all lists to appear as basic ordered lists.
  • Include row width in table rows (Christoffer Ackelman, Viktor Kronvall). Added a property to all table rows where the sum of column widths is specified in pct (fraction of 5000). This helps persuade Word to lay out the table with the widths we specify.
• Fixed a bug in Windows 8 which caused pandoc not to find the pandoc-citeproc filter (#1542).
• Docx reader: miscellaneous under-the-hood improvements (Jesse Rosenthal). Most significantly, the reader now uses Builder, leading to some performance improvements.
• HTML reader: Parse appropriately styled span as SmallCaps.
• Markdown writer: don't escape $, ^, ~ when tex_math_dollars, superscript, and subscript extensions, respectively, are deactivated (#1127).
• Added trypandoc flag to build CGI executable used in the online demo.
• Makefile: Added 'quick', 'osxpkg' targets.
• Updated README in templates to indicate templates license. The templates are dual-licensed, BSD3 and GPL2+.

pandoc 1.13

New features

• Added docx as an input format (Jesse Rosenthal). The docx reader includes conversion of native Word equations to pandoc LaTeX Math elements. Metadata is taken from paragraphs at the beginning of the document with styles Author, Title, Subtitle, Date, and Abstract.
• Added epub as an input format (Matthew Pickering). The epub reader includes conversion of MathML to pandoc LaTeX Math elements.
• Added t2t (Txt2Tags) as an input format (Matthew Pickering). Txt2tags is a lightweight markup format described at http://txt2tags.org/.
• Added dokuwiki as an output format (Clare Macrae).
• Added haddock as an output format.
• Added --extract-media option to extract media contained in a zip container (docx or epub) while adjusting image paths to point to the extracted images.
• Added a new markdown extension, compact_definition_lists, that restores the syntax for definition lists of pandoc 1.12.x, allowing tight definition lists with no blank space between items, and disallowing lazy wrapping. (See below under behavior changes.)
• Added an extension epub_html_exts for parsing HTML in EPUBs.
• Added extensions native_spans and native_divs to activate parsing of material in HTML span or div tags as Pandoc Span inlines or Div blocks.
• --trace now works with the Markdown, HTML, Haddock, EPUB, Textile, and MediaWiki readers. This is an option intended for debugging parsing problems; ordinary users should not need to use it.

Behavior changes

• Changed behavior of the markdown_attribute extension, to bring it in line with PHP markdown extra and multimarkdown. Setting markdown="1" on an outer tag affects all contained tags, recursively, until it is reversed with markdown="0" (#1378).
• Revised markdown definition list syntax (#1429). Both the reader and writer are affected. This change brings pandoc's definition list syntax into alignment with that used in PHP markdown extra and multimarkdown (with the exception that pandoc is more flexible about the definition markers, allowing tildes as well as colons). Lazily wrapped definitions are now allowed. Blank space is required between list items. The space before a definition is used to determine whether it is a paragraph or a "plain" element. WARNING: This change may break existing documents! Either check your documents for definition lists without blank space between items, or use markdown+compact_definition_lists for the old behavior.
• .numberLines now works in fenced code blocks even if no language is given (#1287, jgm/highlighting-kate#40).
• Improvements to --filter:
• Don't search PATH for a filter with an explicit path. This fixed a bug wherein --filter ./caps.py would run caps.py from the system path, even if there was a caps.py in the working directory.
• Respect shebang if filter is executable (#1389).
• Don't print misleading error message. Previously pandoc would say that a filter was not found, even in a case where the filter had a syntax error.
• HTML reader:
• Parse div and span elements even without --parse-raw, provided native_divs and native_spans extensions are set. Motivation: these now generate native pandoc Div and Span elements, not raw HTML.
• Parse EPUB-specific elements if the epub_html_exts extension is enabled. These include switch, footnote, rearnote, noteref.
• Org reader:
• Support for inline LaTeX. Inline LaTeX is now accepted and parsed by the org-mode reader. Both math symbols (like \tau) and LaTeX commands (like \cite{Coffee}), can be used without any further escaping (Albert Krewinkel).
• Textile reader and writer:
• The raw_tex extension is no longer set by default. You can enable it with textile+raw_tex.
• DocBook reader:
• Support equation, informalequation, inlineequation elements with mml:math content. This is converted into LaTeX and put into a Pandoc Math inline.
• Revised plain output, largely following the style of Project Gutenberg:
• Emphasis is rendered with _underscores_, strong emphasis with ALL CAPS.
• Headings are rendered differently, with space to set them off, not with setext style underlines. Level 1 headers are ALL CAPS.
• Math is rendered using unicode when possible, but without the distracting emphasis markers around variables.
• Footnotes use a regular [n] style.
• Markdown writer:
• Horizontal rules are now a line across the whole page.
• Prettier pipe tables. Columns are now aligned (#1323).
• Respect the raw_html extension. pandoc -t markdown-raw_html no longer emits any raw HTML, including span and div tags generated by Span and Div elements.
• Use span with style for SmallCaps (#1360).
• HTML writer:
• Autolinks now have class uri, and email autolinks have class email, so they can be styled.
• Docx writer:
• Document formatting is carried over from reference.docx. This includes margins, page size, page orientation, header, and footer, including images in headers and footers.
• Include abstract (if present) with Abstract style (#1451).
• Include subtitle (if present) with Subtitle style, rather than tacking it on to the title (#1451).
• Org writer:
• Write empty span elements with an id attribute as org anchors. For example Span ("uid",[],[]) [] becomes <<uid>>.
• LaTeX writer:
• Put table captions above tables, to match the conventional standard. (Previously they appeared below tables.)
• Use \(..\) instead of $..$ for inline math (#1464).
• Use \nolinkurl in email autolinks. This allows them to be styled using \urlstyle{tt}. Thanks to Ulrike Fischer for the solution.
• Use \textquotesingle for ' in inline code. Otherwise we get curly quotes in the PDF output (#1364).
• Use \footnote<.>{..} for notes in beamer, so that footnotes do not appear before the overlays in which their markers appear (#1525).
• Don't produce a \label{..} for a Div or Span element. Do produce a \hyperdef{..} (#1519).
• EPUB writer:
• If the metadata includes page-progression-direction (which can be ltr or rtl, the page-progression-direction attribute will be set in the EPUB spine (#1455).
• Custom lua writers:
• Custom writers now work with --template.
• Removed HTML header scaffolding from sample.lua.
• Made citation information available in lua writers.
• --normalize and Text.Pandoc.Shared.normalize now consolidate adjacent RawBlocks when possible.

API changes

• Added Text.Pandoc.Readers.Docx, exporting readDocx (Jesse Rosenthal).
• Added Text.Pandoc.Readers.EPUB, exporting readEPUB (Matthew Pickering).
• Added Text.Pandoc.Readers.Txt2Tags, exporting readTxt2Tags (Matthew Pickering).
• Added Text.Pandoc.Writers.DokuWiki, exporting writeDokuWiki (Clare Macrae).
• Added Text.Pandoc.Writers.Haddock, exporting writeHaddock.
• Added Text.Pandoc.MediaBag, exporting MediaBag, lookupMedia, insertMedia, mediaDirectory, extractMediaBag. The docx and epub readers return a pair of a Pandoc document and a MediaBag with the media resources they contain. This can be extracted using --extract-media. Writers that incorporate media (PDF, Docx, ODT, EPUB, RTF, or HTML formats with --self-contained) will look for resources in the MediaBag generated by the reader, in addition to the file system or web.
• Text.Pandoc.Readers.TexMath: Removed deprecated readTeXMath. Renamed readTeXMath' to texMathToInlines.
• Text.Pandoc: Added Reader data type (Matthew Pickering). readers now associates names of readers with Reader structures. This allows inclusion of readers, like the docx reader, that take binary rather than textual input.
• Text.Pandoc.Shared:
• Added capitalize (Artyom Kazak), and replaced uses of map toUpper (which give bad results for many languages).
• Added collapseFilePath, which removes intermediate . and .. from a path (Matthew Pickering).
• Added fetchItem', which works like fetchItem but searches a MediaBag before looking on the net or file system.
• Added withTempDir.
• Added removeFormatting.
• Added extractSpaces (from HTML reader) and generalized its type so that it can be used by the docx reader (Matthew Pickering).
• Added ordNub.
• Added normalizeInlines, normalizeBlocks.
• normalize is now Pandoc -> Pandoc instead of Data a :: a -> a. Some users may need to change their uses of normalize to the newly exported normalizeInlines or normalizeBlocks.
• Text.Pandoc.Options:
• Added writerMediaBag to WriterOptions.
• Removed deprecated and no longer used readerStrict in ReaderOptions. This is handled by readerExtensions now.
• Added Ext_compact_definition_lists.
• Added Ext_epub_html_exts.
• Added Ext_native_divs and Ext_native_spans. This allows users to turn off the default pandoc behavior of parsing contents of div and span tags in markdown and HTML as native pandoc Div blocks and Span inlines.
• Text.Pandoc.Parsing:
• Generalized readWith to readWithM (Matthew Pickering).
• Export runParserT and Stream (Matthew Pickering).
• Added HasQuoteContext type class (Matthew Pickering).
• Generalized types of mathInline, smartPunctuation, quoted, singleQuoted, doubleQuoted, failIfInQuoteContext, applyMacros (Matthew Pickering).
• Added custom token (Matthew Pickering).
• Added stateInHtmlBlock to ParserState. This is used to keep track of the ending tag we're waiting for when we're parsing inside HTML block tags.
• Added stateMarkdownAttribute to ParserState. This is used to keep track of whether the markdown attribute has been set in an enclosing tag.
• Generalized type of registerHeader, using new type classes HasReaderOptions, `...

pandoc 1.12.4.2

• Require highlighting-kate >= 0.5.8. Fixes a performance regression.
• Shared: addMetaValue now behaves slightly differently: if both the new and old values are lists, it concatenates their contents to form a new list.
• LaTeX reader:
• Set bibliography in metadata from \bibliography or \addbibresource command.
• Don't error on %foo with no trailing newline.
• Org reader:
• Support code block headers (#+BEGIN_SRC ...) (Albert Krewinkel).
• Fix parsing of blank lines within blocks (Albert Krewinkel).
• Support pandoc citation extension (Albert Krewinkel). This can be turned off by specifying org-citation as the input format.
• Markdown reader:
• citeKey moved to Text.Pandoc.Parsing so it can be used by other readers (Albert Krewinkel).
• Text.Pandoc.Parsing:
• Added citeKey (see above).
• Added HasLastStrPosition type class and updateLastStrPos and notAfterString functions.
• Updated copyright notices (Albert Krewinkel).
• Added default.icml to data files so it installs with the package.
• OSX package:
• The binary is now built with options to ensure that it can be used with OSX 10.6+.
• Moved OSX package materials to osx directory.
• Added OSX package uninstall script, included in the zip container (thanks to Daniel T. Staal).

pandoc 1.12.4

• Made it possible to run filters that aren't executable (#1096).
  Pandoc first tries to find the executable (searching the path
  if path isn't given). If it fails, but the file exists and has
  a .py, .pl, .rb, .hs, or .php extension, pandoc runs the filter
  using the appropriate interpreter. This should make it easier to
  use filters on Windows, and make it more convenient for everyone.
• Added Emacs org-mode reader (Albert Krewinkel).
• Added InDesign ICML Writer (mb21).
• MediaWiki reader:
  • Accept image links in more languages (Jaime Marquínez Ferrándiz).
  • Fixed bug in certain nested lists (#1213). If a level 2 list was
    followed by a level 1 list, the first item of the level 1 list
    would be lost.
  • Handle table rows containing just an HTML comment (#1230).
• LaTeX reader:
  • Give better location information on errors, pointing to line
    numbers within included files (#1274).
  • LaTeX reader: Better handling of table environment (#1204).
    Positioning options no longer rendered verbatim.
  • Better handling of figure and table with caption (#1204).
  • Handle @{} and p{length} in tabular. The length is not actually
    recorded, but at least we get a table (#1180).
  • Properly handle \nocite. It now adds a nocite metadata
    field. Citations there will appear in the bibliography but not
    in the text (unless you explicitly put a $nocite$ variable
    in your template).
• Markdown reader:
  • Ensure that whole numbers in YAML metadata are rendered without
    decimal points. (This became necessary with changes to aeson
    and yaml libraries. aeson >= 0.7 and yaml >= 0.8.8.2 are now required.)
  • Fixed regression on line breaks in strict mode (#1203).
  • Small efficiency improvements.
  • Improved parsing of nested divs. Formerly a closing div tag
    would be missed if it came right after other block-level tags.
  • Avoid backtracking when closing </div> not found.
  • Fixed bug in reference link parsing in markdown_mmd.
  • Fixed a bug in list parsing (#1154). When reading a raw list
    item, we now strip off up to 4 spaces.
  • Fixed parsing of empty reference link definitions (#1186).
  • Made one-column pipe tables work (#1218).
• Textile reader:
  • Better support for attributes. Instead of being ignored, attributes
    are now parsed and included in Span inlines. The output will be a bit
    different from stock textile: e.g. for *(foo)hi*, we'll get
    <em><span class="foo">hi</span></em> instead of
    <em class="foo">hi</em>. But at least the data is not lost.
  • Improved treatment of HTML spans (%) (#1115).
  • Improved link parsing. In particular we now pick up on attributes.
    Since pandoc links can't have attributes, we enclose the whole link in
    a span if there are attributes (#1008).
  • Implemented correct parsing rules for inline markup (#1175, Matthew
    Pickering).
  • Use Builder (Matthew Pickering).
• DocBook reader:
  • Better treatment of formalpara. We now emit the title (if present)
    as a separate paragraph with boldface text (#1215).
  • Set metadata author not authors.
  • Added recognition of authorgroup and releaseinfo elements (#1214,
    Matthew Pickering).
  • Converted current meta information parsing in DocBook to a more
    extensible version which is aware of the more recent meta
    representation (Matthew Pickering).
• HTML reader:
  • Require tagsoup 0.13.1, to fix a bug with parsing of script tags
    (#1248).
  • Treat processing instructions & declarations as block. Previously
    these were treated as inline, and included in paragraph tags in HTML
    or DocBook output, which is generally not what is wanted (#1233).
  • Updated closes with rules from HTML5 spec.
  • Use Builder (Matthew Pickering, #1162).
• RST reader:
  • Remove duplicate http in PEP links (Albert Krewinkel).
  • Make rst figures true figures (#1168, CasperVector)
  • Enhanced Pandoc's support for rST roles (Merijn Verstaaten).
    rST parser now supports: all built-in rST roles, new role definition,
    role inheritance, though with some limitations.
  • Use author rather than authors in metadata.
  • Better handling of directives. We now correctly handle field
    lists that are indented more than three spaces. We treat an
    aafig directive as a code block with attributes, so it can be
    processed in a filter (#1212).
• LaTeX writer:
  • Mark span contents with label if span has an ID (Albert Krewinkel).
  • Made --toc-depth work well with books in latex/pdf output (#1210).
  • Handle line breaks in simple table cells (#1217).
  • Workaround for level 4-5 headers in quotes. These previously produced
    invalid LaTeX: \paragraph or \subparagraph in a quote environment.
    This adds an mbox{} in these contexts to work around the problem.
    See http://tex.stackexchange.com/a/169833/22451 (#1221).
  • Use \/ to avoid en-dash ligature instead of -{}- (Vaclav Zeman).
    This is to fix LuaLaTeX output. The -{}- sequence does not avoid the
    ligature with LuaLaTeX but \/ does.
  • Fixed string escaping in hyperref and hyperdef (#1130).
• ConTeXt writer: Improved autolinks (#1270).
• DocBook writer:
  • Improve handling of hard line breaks in Docbook writer
    (Neil Mayhew). Use a <literallayout> for the entire paragraph, not
    just for the newline character.
  • Don't let line breaks inside footnotes influence the enclosing
    paragraph (Neil Mayhew).
  • Distinguish tight and loose lists in DocBook output, using
    spacing="compact" (Neil Mayhew, #1250).
• Docx writer: When needed files are not present in the user's
  reference.docx, fall back on the versions in the reference.docx
  in pandoc's data files. This fixes a bug that occurs when a
  reference.docx saved by LibreOffice is used. (#1185)
• EPUB writer:
  • Include extension in epub ids. This fixes a problem with duplicate
    extensions for fonts and images with the same base name but different
    extensions (#1254).
  • Handle files linked in raw img tags (#1170).
  • Handle media in audio source tags (#1170).
    Note that we now use a media directory rather than images.
  • Incorporate files linked in video tags (#1170). src and poster
    will both be incorporated into content.opf and the epub container.
• HTML writer:
  • Add colgroup around col tags (#877). Also affects EPUB writer.
  • Fixed bug with unnumbered section headings. Unnumbered section
    headings (with class unnumbered) were getting numbers.
  • Improved detection of image links. Previously image links with
    queries were not recognized, causing <embed> to be used instead
    of <img>.
• Man writer: Ensure that terms in definition lists aren't line wrapped
  (#1195).
• Markdown writer:
  • Use proper escapes to avoid unwanted lists (#980). Previously we used
    0-width spaces, an ugly hack.
  • Use longer backtick fences if needed (#1206). If the content contains a
    backtick fence and there are attributes, make sure longer fences are
    used to delimit the code. Note: This works well in pandoc, but github
    markdown is more limited, and will interpret the first string of three
    or more backticks as ending the code block.
• RST writer: Avoid stack overflow with certain tables (#1197).
• RTF writer: Fixed table cells containing paragraphs.
• Custom writer:
  • Correctly handle UTF-8 in custom lua scripts (#1189).
  • Fix bugs with lua scripts with mixed-case filenames and
    paths containing + or - (#1267). Note that getWriter
    in Text.Pandoc no longer returns a custom writer on input
    foo.lua.
• AsciiDoc writer: Handle multiblock and empty table cells
  (#1245, #1246). Added tests.
• Text.Pandoc.Options: Added readerTrace to ReaderOptions
• Text.Pandoc.Shared:
  • Added compactify'DL (formerly in markdown reader) (Albert Krewinkel).
  • Fixed bug in toRomanNumeral: numbers ending with '9' would
    be rendered as Roman numerals ending with 'IXIV' (#1249). Thanks to
    Jesse Rosenthal.
  • openURL: set proxy with value of http_proxy env variable (#1211).
    Note: proxies with non-root paths are not supported, due to
    limitations in http-conduit.
• Text.Pandoc.PDF:
  • Ensure that temp directories deleted on Windows (#1192). The PDF is
    now read as a strict bytestring, ensuring that process ownership will
    be terminated, so the temp directory can be deleted.
  • Use / as path separators in a few places, even on Windows.
    This seems to be necessary for texlive (#1151, thanks to Tim Lin).
  • Use ; for TEXINPUTS separator on Windows (#1151).
  • Changes to error reporting, to handle non-UTF8 error output.
• Text.Pandoc.Templates:
  • Removed unneeded datatype context (Merijn Verstraaten).
  • YAML objects resolve to "true" in conditionals (#1133).
    Note: If address is a YAML object and you just have $address$
    in your template, the word true will appear, which may be
    unexpected. (Previously nothing would appear.)
• Text.Pandoc.SelfContained: Handle poster attribute in video
  tags (#1188).
• Text.Pandoc.Parsing:
  • Made F an instance of Applicative (#1138).
  • Added stateCaption.
  • Added HasMacros, simplified other typeclasses.
    Removed updateHeaderMap, setHeaderMap, getHeaderMap,
    updateIdentifierList, setIdentifierList, getIdentifierList.
  • Changed the smart punctuation parser to return Inlines
    rather than Inline (Matthew Pickering).
  • Changed HasReaderOptions, HasHeaderMap, HasIdentifierList
    from typeclasses of monads to typeclasses of states. This simplifies
    the instance definitions and provides more flexibility. Generalized
    type of getOption and added a default definition. Removed
    askReaderOption. Added extractReaderOption. Added
    extractHeaderMap and updateHeaderMap in HasHeaderMap.
    ...

pandoc 1.12.3

• The --bibliography option now sets the biblio-files variable. So, if you're using --natbib or --biblatex, you can just use --bibliography=foo.bib instead of -V bibliofiles=foo.
• Don't run pandoc-citeproc filter if --bibliography is used together with --natbib or --biblatex (Florian Eitel).
• Template changes:
• Updated beamer template to include booktabs.
• Added abstract variable to LaTeX template.
• Put header-includes after title in LaTeX template (#908).
• Allow use of \includegraphics[size] in beamer. This just required porting a macro definition from the default LaTeX template to the default beamer template.
• reference.docx: Include FootnoteText style. Otherwise Word ignores the style, even when specified in the pPr. (#901)
• reference.odt: Tidied styles.xml.
• Relaxed version bounds for dependencies.
• Added withSocketsDo around http conduit code in openURL, so it works on Windows (#1080).
• Added Cite function to sample.lua.
• Markdown reader:
• Fixed regression in title blocks (#1089). If author field was empty, date was being ignored.
• Allow backslash-newline hard line breaks in grid and multiline table cells.
• Citation keys may now start with underscores, and may contain underscores adjacent to internal punctuation.
• LaTeX reader:
• Add support for Verb macro (jrnold) (#1090).
• Support babel-style quoting: "..."'`.
• Properly handle script blocks in strict mode. (That is, markdown-markdown_in_html_blocks.) Previously a spurious <p> tag was being added (#1093).
• Docbook reader: Avoid failure if tbody contains no tr or row elements.
• LaTeX writer:
• Factored out function for table cell creation.
• Better treatment of footnotes in tables. Notes now appear in the regular sequence, rather than in the table cell. (This was a regression in 1.10.)
• HTML reader: Parse name/content pairs from meta tags as metadata. Closes #1106.
• Moved fixDisplayMath from Docx writer to Writer.Shared.
• OpenDocument writer: Fixed RawInline, RawBlock so they don't escape.
• ODT writer: Use mathml for proper rendering of formulas. Note: LibreOffice's support for this seems a bit buggy. But it should be better than what we had before.
• RST writer: Ensure no blank line after def in definition list (#992).
• Markdown writer: Don't use tilde code blocks with braced attributes in markdown_github output. A consequence of this change is that the backtick form will be preferred in general if both are enabled. That is good, as it is much more widespread than the tilde form. (#1084)
• Docx writer: Fixed problem with some modified reference docx files. Include word/_rels/settings.xml.rels if it exists, as well as other rels files besides the ones pandoc generates explicitly.
• HTML writer:
• With --toc, headers no longer link to themselves (#1081).
• Omit footnotes from TOC entries. Otherwise we get doubled footnotes when headers have notes!
• EPUB writer:
• Avoid duplicate notes when headings contain notes. This arose because the headings are copied into the metadata "title" field, and the note gets rendered twice. We strip the note now before putting the heading in "title".
• Strip out footnotes from toc entries.
• Fixed bug with --epub-stylesheet. Now the contents of writerEpubStylesheet (set by --epub-stylesheet) should again work, and take precedence over a stylesheet specified in the metadata.
• Text.Pandoc.Pretty: Added nestle. API change.
• Text.Pandoc.MIME: Added wmf, emf.
• Text.Pandoc.Shared: fetchItem now handles image URLs beginning with //.
• Text.Pandoc.ImageSize: Parse EXIF format JPEGs. Previously we could only get size information for JFIF format, which led to squished images in Word documents. Closes #976.
• Removed old MarkdownTest_1.0.3 directory (#1104).

pandoc 1.12.2.1

• Markdown reader: Fixed regression in list parser, involving continuation lines containing raw HTML (or even verbatim raw HTML).

pandoc 1.12.2

• Much improved citation support.
• Metadata may now be included in YAML blocks in a markdown document. For example,

---
title:
- type: main
  text: My Book
- type: subtitle
  text: An investigation of metadata
creator:
- role: author
  text: John Smith
- role: editor
  text: Sarah Jones
identifier:
- scheme: DOI
  text: doi:10.234234.234/33
publisher:  My Press
rights:  (c) 2007 John Smith, CC BY-NC
cover-image: img/mypic.jpg
...

Metadata may still be provided using --epub-metadata; it will be merged with the metadata in YAML blocks.

• EPUB writer:
• meta tags are now used instead of opf attributes for EPUB3.
• Insert "svg" property as needed in opf (EPUB 3).
• Simplify imageTypeOf using getMimeType.
• Add properties attribute to cover-image item for EPUB 3.
• Don't include node for cover.xhtml if no cover!
• Ensure that same identifier is used throughout (#1044). If an identifier is given in metadata, we use that; otherwise we generate a random uuid.
• Add cover reference to guide element (EPUB 2) (Shaun Attfield). Fixes an issue with Calibre putting the cover at the end of the book if the spine has linear="no". Apparently this is best practice for other converters as well: http://www.idpf.org/epub/20/spec/OPF_2.0.1_draft.htm#Section2.6.
• Allow stylesheet in metadata. The value is a path to the stylesheet.
• Allow partial dates: YYYY, YYYY-MM.
• Markdown writer: Fix rendering of tight sublists (#1050). Previously a spurious blank line was included after a tight sublist.
• ODT writer: Add draw:name attribute to draw:frame elements (#1069). This is reported to be necessary to avoid an error from recent versions of Libre Office when files contain more than one image Thanks to wmanley for reporting and diagnosing the problem.
• ConTeXt writer: Don't hardcode figure/table placement and numbering. Instead, let this be set in the template, using \setupfloat. Thanks to on4aa and Aditya Mahajan for the suggestion (#1067).
• Implemented CSL flipflopping spans in DOCX, LaTeX, and HTML writers.
• Fixed bug with markdown intraword emphasis. Closes #1066.
• Docbook writer: Hierarchicalize block content in metadata. Previously headers just disappeared from block-level metadata when it was used in templates. Now we apply the 'hierarchicalize' transformation. Note that a block headed by a level-2 header will turn into a <sect1> element.
• OpenDocument writer: Skip raw HTML (#1035). Previously it was erroneously included as verbatim text.
• HTML/EPUB writer, footnotes: Put <sup> tag inside <a> tags. This allows better control of formatting, since the <a> tags have a distinguishing class (#1049).
• Docx writer:
• Use mime type info returned by fetchItem.
• Fixed core metadata (#1046). Don't create empty date nodes if no date given. Don't create multiple dc:creator nodes; instead separate by semicolons.
• Fix URL for core-properties in _rels/.rels (#1046).
• Plain writer: don't print <span> tags.
• LaTeX writer:
• Fix definition lists with internal links in terms (#1032). This fix puts braces around a term that contains an internal link, to avoid problems with square brackets.
• Properly escape pdftitle, pdfauthor (#1059).
• Use booktabs package for tables (thanks to Jose Luis Duran).
• Updated beamer template. Now references should work properly (in a slide) when --biblatex or --natbib is used.
• LaTeX reader:
• Parse contents of curly quotes or matched " as quotes.
• Support \textnormal as span with class nodecor. This is needed for pandoc-citeproc.
• Improved citation parsing. This fixes a run-time error that occured with \citet{} (empty list of keys). It also ensures that empty keys don't get produced.
• MediaWiki reader: Add automatic header identifiers.
• HTML reader:
• Use pandoc Div and Span for raw <div>, <span> when --parse-raw.
• Recognize svg tags as block level content (thanks to MinRK).
• Parse LaTeX math if appropriate options are set.
• Markdown reader:
• Yaml block must start immediately after ---. If there's a blank line after ---, we interpreted it as a horizontal rule.
• Correctly handle empty bullet list items.
• Stop parsing "list lines" when we hit a block tag. This fixes exponential slowdown in certain input, e.g. a series of lists followed by </div>.
• Slides: Preserve <div class="references"> in references slide.
• Text.Pandoc.Writer.Shared:
• Fixed bug in tagWithAttrs. A space was omitted before key-value attributes, leading to invalid HTML.
• normalizeDate: Allow dates with year only (thanks to Shaun Attfield).
• Fixed bug in openURL with data: URIs. Previously the base-64 encoded bytestring was returned. We now decode it so it's a proper image!
• DocBook reader: Handle numerical attributes starting with decimal. Also use safeRead instead of read.
• Text.Pandoc.Parsing:
• Generalized type of registerHeader, using new type classes HasReadeOptions, HasIdentifierList, HasHeaderMap. These allow certain common functions to be reused even in parsers that use custom state (instead of ParserState), such as the MediaWiki reader.
• Moved inlineMath, displayMath from Markdown reader to Parsing. Generalize their types and export them from Parsing. (API change.)
• Text.Pandoc.Readers.TexMath: Export readTeXMath', which attends to display/inline. Deprecate readTeXMath, and use readTeXMath' in all the writers. Require texmath >= 0.6.5.2.
• Text.Pandoc.MIME:
• Add entry for jfif.
• In looking up extensions, drop the encoding info. E.g. for 'image/jpg;base64' we should lookup 'image/jpg'.
• Templates: Changed how array variables are resolved. Previously if foo is an array (which might be because multiple values were set on the command line), $foo$ would resolve to the concatenation of the elements of foo. This is rarely useful behavior. It has been changed so that the first value is rendered. Of course, you can still iterate over the values using $for(foo)$. This has the result that you can override earlier settings using -V by putting new values later on the command line, which is useful for many purposes.
• Text.Pandoc: Don't default to pandocExtensions for all writers.
• Allow "epub2" as synonym for "epub", "html4" for "html".
• Don't look for slidy files in data files with --self-contained.
• Allow https: command line arguments to be downloaded.
• Fixed make_osx_package.sh so data files embedded in pandoc-citeproc.

Pandoc 1.12.1

This release fixes a few bugs (details in the release notes) and considerably improves citation handling. The new pandoc-citeproc (0.1.2.1) can read bibtex and biblatex files directly (not using bibutils to translate them, as before). Though this is still a work in progress, the results are already significantly better. LaTeX constructs in bibtex fields are translated properly, and simple math gets converted.

Three changes of note:

1. The default JSON serialization format has changed. Instead of {"Str": "foo"}, for example, we now have {"t": "Str", "c": "foo"} ("t" for tag, "c" for contents). This new format is easier to work with outside of Haskell. This change should only affect people who are interacting with pandoc's JSON using languages other than Haskell, since in Haskell the JSON conversions can be handled automatically by the aeson library. Those who use the python library pandocfilters for filters should upgrade to version 1.2, which has already been updated to use the new format.
2. Pandoc's data files no longer include the javascript, CSS, and images for S5, slidy, and slideous slide formats. If you wish to produce S5 or slideous slides with the --self-contained option, you'll need to download the appropriate code into the s5 or slideous directories, respectively, as with revealjs. (This is what the User's Guide has said to do for some time.) The default for slidy is to embed a link to the code on the slidy website, so nothing should change for slidy users who are using the default template.
3. You can now create "speaker notes" in slide formats, by putting them inside <div class="notes"> tags. (Note that you may need to leave a blank line before the closing </div> tag in some contexts.) Currently these are supported in beamer (where the notes go to \note{...}) and revealjs (where they turn into <aside class="notes">; in other formats the speaker notes are just ignored.

Added 2013-10-21: The OSX package installer that was originally attached to this release was defective. Please download the new installer below, pandoc-1.12.1-1.dmg.

Pandoc 1.12.0.2

This version fixes an incompatibility between pandoc's JSON output and what was expected by the python pandocfilters package. Anyone who intends to use pandocfilters should upgrade.

pandoc 1.12.0.1

• Allow --metadata to be repeated for the same key to form a list.
  This also has the effect that --bibliography can be repeated,
  as before.

• Handle boolean values in --metadata. Note that anything not parseable
  as a YAML boolean or string is treated as a literal string.
  You can get a string value with "yes", or any of the strings interpretable
  as booleans, by quoting it:

  -M boolvalue=yes -M stringvalue='"yes"'
  

• LaTeX writer: Don't print references if --natbib or --biblatex
  option used.

• DOCX writer: Add settings.xml to the zip container. Fixes a bug
  in which docx files could not be read by some versions of Word
  and LibreOffice (#990).

• Fixed a regression involving slide shows with bibliographies.
  The Div container around references messed up the procedure for carving
  a document into slides. So we now remove the surrounding Div in
  prepSlides.

• More informative error message when a filter is not found in path.

• Depend on pandoc-types 1.12.1. This provide ToJSONFilter
  instances for Data a => a -> [a] and Data a => a -> IO [a].

• Don't use unicode_collation in building OSX package:
  it adds something like 50MB of dependencies to the package.

• Declare alex and happy as build-tools (#986).