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diff --git a/HCAR-Pandoc.tex b/HCAR-Pandoc.tex index 64ad0d4b5..c3f1143ad 100644 --- a/HCAR-Pandoc.tex +++ b/HCAR-Pandoc.tex @@ -2,7 +2,8 @@ \label{pandoc} \report{John MacFarlane}%11/09 \status{active development} -\participants{Andrea Rossato, Peter Wang, Paulo Tanimoto} +\participants{John MacFarlane, Andrea Rossato, Peter Wang, Paulo Tanimoto, Eric Kow, +Luke Plant, Justin Bogner} \makeheader Pandoc aspires to be the swiss army knife of text markup formats: it @@ -12,17 +13,20 @@ DocBook XML, OpenDocument XML, ODT, RTF, groff man, MediaWiki markup, GNU Texinfo, LaTeX, ConTeXt, and S5. Pandoc's markdown syntax includes extensions for LaTeX math, tables, definition lists, footnotes, and more. -Since the last report, there has been one release (1.2.1). -\begin{itemize} - \item Users may notice a significant speedup in reading markdown in - \verb!--smart! mode; the abbreviations parser has been made much more - efficient. - \item Default HTML output now wraps sections in divs with unique - identifiers. This should aid manipulation using javascript and - other tools. - \item We have made some progress in replacing the old POSIX shell - script wrappers with more portable Haskell wrappers. -\end{itemize} +There have been several releases since the last report, with many +bug fixes and small improvements. There are two big architectural +changes. First, pandoc no longer requires Template Haskell, which should +make it more portable. Second, a new, flexible template system has been +added, allowing users much more control over document headers and footers. +Other major changes include support for xetex, support for reST tables, +support for tables without header rows, support for formatting +math as MathML, a new ``plain text'' output format, and a much +more permissive HTML parser. The old \verb!hsmarkdown! and +\verb!html2markdown! scripts have been removed; \verb!pandoc! itself can +now do the work of \verb!html2markdown!. Summaries of the new features +in each release are available on the (newly redesigned) website, along +with full documentation and a new tutorial on using the pandoc +library for structured text manipulation. \FurtherReading \url{http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/} |