@@ -2,7 +2,8 @@
2\label{pandoc}
2\label{pandoc}
3\report{John MacFarlane}%11/09
3\report{John MacFarlane}%11/09
4\status{active development}
4\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}
8Pandoc aspires to be the swiss army knife of text markup formats: it
9Pandoc 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,
12GNU Texinfo, LaTeX, ConTeXt, and S5. Pandoc's markdown syntax includes
13GNU Texinfo, LaTeX, ConTeXt, and S5. Pandoc's markdown syntax includes
13extensions for LaTeX math, tables, definition lists, footnotes, and more.
14extensions for LaTeX math, tables, definition lists, footnotes, and more.
15−Since the last report, there has been one release (1.2.1).
16+There have been several releases since the last report, with many
16−\begin{itemize}
17+bug fixes and small improvements. There are two big architectural
17− \item Users may notice a significant speedup in reading markdown in
18+changes. First, pandoc no longer requires Template Haskell, which should
18− \verb!--smart! mode; the abbreviations parser has been made much more
19+make it more portable. Second, a new, flexible template system has been
19− efficient.
20+added, allowing users much more control over document headers and footers.
20− \item Default HTML output now wraps sections in divs with unique
21+Other major changes include support for xetex, support for reST tables,
21− identifiers. This should aid manipulation using javascript and
22+support for tables without header rows, support for formatting
22− other tools.
23+math as MathML, a new ``plain text'' output format, and a much
23− \item We have made some progress in replacing the old POSIX shell
24+more permissive HTML parser. The old \verb!hsmarkdown! and
24− script wrappers with more portable Haskell wrappers.
25+\verb!html2markdown! scripts have been removed; \verb!pandoc! itself can
25−\end{itemize}
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.
27\FurtherReading
31\FurtherReading
28 \url{http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/}
32 \url{http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/}