Formatting changes in debian/changelog, and added note about

backslash escaping changes.


git-svn-id: https://pandoc.googlecode.com/svn/trunk@462 788f1e2b-df1e-0410-8736-df70ead52e1b

1 files changed, 23 insertions, 15 deletions

diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 8ce9acc47..29de84cd2 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -3,17 +3,17 @@ pandoc (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
   [ John MacFarlane ]
 
   * Changes in pandoc options:
+
     + Allow options to follow or precede arguments.
     + Changed '--smartypants' to '--smart' and adjusted symbols accordingly.
-    + Added '--strict' option for maximum compatibility with official
-      Markdown syntax.
-    + Added '-o/--output' option to send output to a file.
+    + Added '--strict' option.
+    + Added '-o/--output' option.
     + Added '--dump-args' and '--ignore-args' options (for use in wrappers).
     + Modified '-v' and '-h' output to go to STDERR, not STDOUT, and return
-      error condition (2).  This is helpful for writing wrappers.
+      error conditions.  This is helpful for writing wrappers.
+    + Added copyright message to '-v' output, modeled after FSF messages.
     + Reformatted usage message so that it doesn't wrap illegibly.
     + Removed extra blanks after '-h' and '-D' output.
-    + Added copyright message to '-v' output, modeled after FSF messages.
 
   * Added docbook writer.
 
@@ -40,6 +40,7 @@ pandoc (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
     HTML header.
 
   * Bug fixes:
+
     + Fixed a serious bug in the markdown, LaTeX, and RST readers.
       These readers ran 'runParser' on processed chunks of text to handle
       embedded block lists in lists and quotation blocks.  But then
@@ -70,9 +71,6 @@ pandoc (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
       which will end with the same number of `s.  For example, to
       have two backticks as code, write ``` `` ```.  Modified Markdown
       writer accordingly.
-    + Modified HTML reader to skip a newline following a <br> tag.
-      Otherwise the newline will be treated as a space at the beginning
-      of the next line.
     + Fixed bug in text-wrapping routine in Markdown and RST writers.
       Now LineBreaks no longer cause wrapping problems.
     + Supported hexadecimal numerical entity references as well as
@@ -81,6 +79,13 @@ pandoc (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
       inline formatting markers inside reference labels:  for example,
       in '[A_B]: /url/a_b', the material between underscores was being
       parsed as emphasized inlines.
+    + Changed Markdown reader's handling of backslash escapes so that
+      only non-alphanumeric characters can be escaped.  Strict mode
+      follows Markdown.pl in only allowing a select group of punctuation
+      characters to be escaped.
+    + Modified HTML reader to skip a newline following a <br> tag.
+      Otherwise the newline will be treated as a space at the beginning
+      of the next line.
  
   * Made handling of code blocks more consistent.  Previously, some
     readers allowed trailing newlines, while others stripped them.
@@ -90,6 +95,7 @@ pandoc (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
   * Modified readers to make spacing at the end of output more consistent.
 
   * Minor improvements to LaTeX reader:
+
     + '\thanks' now treated like a footnote.    
     + Simplified parsing of LaTeX command arguments and options.
       commandArgs now returns a list of arguments OR options (in
@@ -99,17 +105,11 @@ pandoc (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
       and \newenvironment.
 
   * Revised RTF writer:
+
     + Default font is now Helvetica.
     + An '\f0' is added to each '\pard', so that font resizing works
       correctly.
 
-  * Improved handling of dashes in LaTeX writer:
-    + Recognize a double hyphen as an Em-dash, even when it occurs next
-      to punctuation (e.g. a quotation mark).
-    + Collapse space around Em-dashes.
-    + Process quotes before dashes.  This way (foo -- 'bar') will turn into
-      (foo---`bar') instead of (foo---'bar').
-
   * Moved handling of "smart typography" from the writers to the Markdown
     and LaTeX readers.  This allows great simplification of the writers
     and more accurate smart quotes, dashes, and ellipses.  DocBook can
@@ -119,6 +119,7 @@ pandoc (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
     EmDash, EnDash.
 
   * Changes in HTML writer:
+
     + Include title block in header even when title is null.
     + Made javascript obfuscation of emails even more obfuscatory,
       by combining it with entity obfuscation.
@@ -126,11 +127,13 @@ pandoc (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
   * Changed default ASCIIMathML text color to black.
 
   * Test suite:
+
     + Added --strip-trailing-cr option to diff in runtests.pl, for
       compatibility with Windows.
     + Added regression tests with footnotes in quote blocks and lists.
 
   * Makefile changes:
+
     + osx-pkg target creates a Mac OS X package (directory). New osx
       directory contains files needed for construction of the package.
     + osx-dmg target creates a compressed disk image containing the package.
@@ -151,6 +154,7 @@ pandoc (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
 
   * Added code to html2markdown that tries to determine the character 
     encoding of an HTML file, by parsing the "Content-type" meta tag.
+
     + If the encoding can't be determined, then if the content is local,
       the local encoding is used; if it comes from a URL, UTF-8 is used 
       by default.
@@ -158,11 +162,13 @@ pandoc (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
     + Encoding can be specified explicitly using '-e' option.
 
   * Improved warning messages in wrappers:
+
     + Print warning if iconv not available
     + More user-friendly error messages in markdown2pdf, when
       pdflatex fails.
 
   * Code cleanup:
+
     + Renamed 'Text/Pandoc/HtmlEntities' module to 
       'Text/Pandoc/Entities'. Also changed function names so as
       not to be HTML-specific.
@@ -194,6 +200,7 @@ pandoc (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
     a proper debian package.  Closes: #391666.
 
   * Modified build process to support GHC 6.6.
+
     + The package can still be compiled using GHC 6.4.2, though because
       of dependencies the "make deb" target works only with GHC 6.6+.
     + The script 'cabalize' is used to create an appropriate
@@ -205,6 +212,7 @@ pandoc (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
   * Modified wrapper scripts to make them more robust and portable.
     To avoid code duplication and ensure consistency, wrappers are 
     generated via a templating system from templates in src/wrappers.
+
     + Wrappers now accept multiple filenames, when appropriate.
     + Spaces and tabs allowed in filenames.
     + getopts shell builtin is used for portable option parsing.