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114114# News
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116+- Version 1.5 release (March 20, 2010).
117+
118+ + New --mathml option, for display of TeX math as MathML.
119+ + New --data-dir option, allowing users to specify a data
120+ directory other than `~/.pandoc`. Files placed in this directory
121+ will be used instead of system defaults.
122+ + New --base-header-level option. For example, --base-header-level=2
123+ changes level 1 headers to level 2, level 2 to level 3, etc.
124+ + New 'plain' output format: plain text without pictures, hyperlinks,
125+ inline formatting, or anything else that looks even vaguely
126+ markupish.
127+ + Titles and authors in title blocks can now span multiple lines,
128+ as long as the continuation lines begin with a space character.
129+ + When given an absolute URI as a parameter, pandoc will fetch
130+ the content via HTTP.
131+ + The HTML reader has been made much more forgiving. It no
132+ longer requires well-formed xhtml as input.
133+ + `html2markdown` has been removed; it is no longer necessary, given
134+ the last two changes. `pandoc` can be used by itself to convert
135+ web pages to markdown or other formats.
136+ + `hsmarkdown` has also been removed. Use `pandoc --strict` instead.
137+ Or symlink pandoc's executable to `hsmarkdown`; `pandoc` will then
138+ behave like `hsmarkdown` used to.
139+ + An image in a paragraph by itself is now rendered as a figure
140+ in most writers, with the alt text as the caption.
141+ + Incomplete support for reST tables (simple and grid). Thanks to
142+ Eric Kow. Colspans and rowspans not yet supported.
143+ + In mediawiki, links with relative URLs are now formatted as wikilinks.
144+ Also, headers have been promoted: '= head =' is now level 1 instead of
145+ level 2.
146+ + The markdown reader now handles "inverse bird tracks" when parsing
147+ literate haskell. These are used for haskell example code that
148+ is not part of the literate program.
149+ + The -B and -A options now imply -s and no longer work in fragment mode.
150+ + Headerless tables are now printed properly in all writers.
151+ In addition, tbody, thead, and cols are used in HTML and Docbook
152+ tables.
153+ + Improved build system; removed obsolete Makefile.
154+ + In LaTeX writer, \chapter is now used instead of \section
155+ when the documentclass is book, report, or memoir.
156+ + Many small bug fixes. See [changelog] for details.
157+
116158- Version 1.4 release (January 2, 2010).
117159
118160 + New template system replaces old headers, giving users much