@@ -2,7 +2,8 @@
22\label{pandoc}
33\report{John MacFarlane}%11/09
44\status{active development}
5−\participants{Andrea Rossato, Peter Wang, Paulo Tanimoto}
5+\participants{John MacFarlane, Andrea Rossato, Peter Wang, Paulo Tanimoto, Eric Kow,
6+Luke Plant, Justin Bogner}
67\makeheader
78
89Pandoc 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,
1213GNU Texinfo, LaTeX, ConTeXt, and S5. Pandoc's markdown syntax includes
1314extensions for LaTeX math, tables, definition lists, footnotes, and more.
1415
15−Since the last report, there has been one release (1.2.1).
16−\begin{itemize}
17− \item Users may notice a significant speedup in reading markdown in
18− \verb!--smart! mode; the abbreviations parser has been made much more
19− efficient.
20− \item Default HTML output now wraps sections in divs with unique
21− identifiers. This should aid manipulation using javascript and
22− other tools.
23− \item We have made some progress in replacing the old POSIX shell
24− script wrappers with more portable Haskell wrappers.
25−\end{itemize}
16+There have been several releases since the last report, with many
17+bug fixes and small improvements. There are two big architectural
18+changes. First, pandoc no longer requires Template Haskell, which should
19+make it more portable. Second, a new, flexible template system has been
20+added, allowing users much more control over document headers and footers.
21+Other major changes include support for xetex, support for reST tables,
22+support for tables without header rows, support for formatting
23+math as MathML, a new ``plain text'' output format, and a much
24+more permissive HTML parser. The old \verb!hsmarkdown! and
25+\verb!html2markdown! scripts have been removed; \verb!pandoc! itself can
26+now do the work of \verb!html2markdown!. Summaries of the new features
27+in each release are available on the (newly redesigned) website, along
28+with full documentation and a new tutorial on using the pandoc
29+library for structured text manipulation.
2630
2731\FurtherReading
2832 \url{http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/}