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Docutils Release Notes
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:Contact: grubert@users.sourceforge.net
:Maintainer: docutils-develop@lists.sourceforge.net
:Date: $Date: 2014-07-06 13:48:38 +0200 (Son, 06. Jul 2014) $
:Revision: $Revision: 7757 $
:Web site: http://docutils.sourceforge.net/
:Copyright: This document has been placed in the public domain.
This document summarizes the major changes in recent releases. For a
more detailed list of changes, please see the `Docutils History`_.
.. _Docutils History: HISTORY.html
.. contents::
Future changes
==============
* remove the `handle_io_errors` option from io.FileInput/Output.
* Prune the doctree (no change to the reST input syntax):
- "doctest" element -> literal block with class argument,
- special admonitions (note, hint, warning, ...) -> generic "admonition"
element with class attribute and auto-generated title.
* Move to single source for Python 2 and Python 3, slowly.
See `Porting Python 2 Code to Python 3`_ and
`future: clean single-source support for Python 2/3`_
- Drop support for python 2.4 probably after 0.12 release.
.. _Porting Python 2 Code to Python 3: https://docs.python.org/3/howto/pyporting.html
.. _future\: clean single-source support for Python 2/3: http://python-future.org
Release 0.12 (2014-07-06)
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Release 0.11 (2013-07-22)
=========================
* General
- Apply [ 2714873 ] Fix for the overwritting of document attributes.
- Support embedded aliases within hyperlink references.
- Fix [ 228 ] try local import of docutils components (reader, writer, parser,
language module) before global search.
* docutils/parsers/rst/directives/tables.py
- Fix [ 210 ] Python 3.3 checks CVS syntax only if "strict" is True.
* docutils/writers/html4css1/__init__.py
- Fix [ 3600051 ] for tables in a list, table cells are not compacted.
- New setting `stylesheet_dirs` (see above).
Now, it is easy to add a custom stylesheet to Docutils' default
stylesheet with, e.g., ``--stylesheet_path='html4css1.css, mystyle.css'``
Changed behaviour of the default settings:
if there is a file ``html4css1.css`` in the working directory of the
process at launch, it is used instead of the one provided by Docutils
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in the writer source directory.
- New default for math-output_: ``HTML math.css``.
- Avoid repeated class declarations in html4css1 writer
(modified version of patch [ 104 ]).
.. _math-output: docs/user/config.html#math-output
* docutils/writers/latex2e/__init__.py
- Drop the simple algorithm replacing straight double quotes with
English typographic ones.
Activate the SmartQuotes_ transform if you want this feature.
- New setting `stylesheet_dirs`: Comma-separated list of directories
where stylesheets are found. Used by `stylesheet_path` when expanding
relative path arguments.
.. _SmartQuotes: docs/user/config.html#smart-quotes
* docutils/writers/manpage.py
- Fix [3607063] handle lines starting with a period.
- Fix option separating comma was bold (thanks to Bill Morris).
Release 0.10 (2012-12-16)
=========================
.. Note::
Docutils 0.9.x is the last version supporting Python 2.3.
Docutils 0.10 is compatible with Python versions from 2.4 to 3.2
(cf. `Python 3 compatibility`_).
* General:
- SmartQuotes transform for typographic quotes and dashes.
- ``docutils/math``, ``docutils/error_reporting.py``, and
``docutils/urischemes.py`` moved to the utils package.
Code importing these modules needs to adapt, e.g.::
try:
import docutils.math as math
except ImportError:
import docutils.utils.math as math
- enhanced math and error handling.
* docutils/io.py
- FileInput/FileOutput: no system-exit on IOError.
The `handle_io_errors` option is ignored.
.. _Python 3 compatibility: README.html#python-3-compatibility
* docutils/writers/html4css1/__init__.py
- Use ``<code>`` tag for inline "code",
do not drop nested inline nodes (syntax highlight tokens).
- Customizable MathJax URL (based on patch by Dmitry Shachnev).
- No line break after opening inline math tag.
* docutils/writers/latex2e/__init__.py, docutils/writers/xetex/__init__.py
- Fix section numbering by LaTeX.
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* docutils/writers/s5_html/__init__.py
- Fix [ 3556388 ] Mathjax does not work with rst2s5.
Release 0.9.1 (2012-06-17)
==========================
* General:
Several fixes for Python 3 usage.
* docutils/setup.py
- Fix [ 3527842 ]. Under Python 3, converted tests and tools were
installed in the PYTHONPATH. Converted tests are now
stored in ``docutils/test3/``, tools no longer need conversion.
If you installed one of Docutils versions 0.7 ... 0.9 with
``setup.py install`` under Python 3, remove the spurious
``test/`` and ``tools/`` directories in the site library root.
Release 0.9 (2012-05-02)
=========================
* General:
- reStructuredText "code" role and directive with syntax highlighting
by Pygments_.
- "code" option of the "include" directive.
.. _Pygments: http://pygments.org/
- Fix [ 3402314 ] allow non-ASCII whitespace, punctuation
characters and "international" quotes around inline markup.
- Fix handling of missing stylesheets.
* setup.py
- Fix [ 2971827 ] and [ 3442827 ]
extras/roman.py moved to docutils/utils/roman.py
* docutils/utils.py -> docutils/utils/__init__.py
- docutils.utils is now a package (providing a place for sub-modules)
* docutils/writers/html4css1/__init__.py
- change default for `math-output` setting to MathJax
* docutils/writers/latex2e/__init__.py
- Support the `abbreviation` and `acronym` standard roles.
- Record only files required to generate the LaTeX source as dependencies.
- Use ``\setcounter{secnumdepth}{0}`` instead of ``*``-versions
when suppressing LaTeX section numbering.
Release 0.8.1 (2011-08-30)
==========================
* General:
- Fix [ 3364658 ] (Change last file with Apache license to BSD-2-Clause)
and [ 3395920 ] (correct copyright info for rst.el).
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* docutils/writers/latex2e/__init__.py
- Clean up Babel language setting. Restores Sphinx compatibility.
Release 0.8 (2011-07-07)
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* COPYING:
- Some additions to the Docutils core are released under the 2-Clause BSD
license.
* General:
- Handle language codes according to `BCP 47`_.
- If the specified langauage is not supported by Docutils,
warn and fall back to English.
- Math support: reStructuredText "math" role and directive,
``math`` and ``math_block`` doctree elements.
- Orphaned "python" reader and "newlatex2e" writer moved to the sandbox.
.. _BCP 47: http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/bcp/bcp47.txt
* reStructuredText:
- most directives now support a "name" option that attaches a
reference name. So you can write ::
.. figure:: image.png
:name: figure name
as a short form of ::
.. _figure name:
.. figure:: image.png
Internationalization:
* Added lithuanian mappings.
Components:
* HTML writer:
- New setting "math-output" with support for HTML, MathML, and LaTeX.
* LaTeX2e writer:
- Convert image URI to a local file path.
- Apply [ 3148141 ] fix multicolumn support when a colspanning cell
has more than one paragraph (Wolfgang Scherer).
* XeTeX writer:
- New writer generating LaTeX code for compiling with ``xelatex``.
XeTeX uses unicode and modern font technologies.
* and fixes and enhancements here and there.
Release 0.7 (2010-07-07)
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Components:
* HTML writer:
- Support SVG and SWF images (thanks to Stefan Rank).
- Generate valid XHTML for centered images with targets.
Use CSS classes instead of "align" tags for image alignment.
* LaTeX2e writer:
- Use the ``\url`` command for URLs (breaks long URLs instead of writing
into the margin).
- Preserve runs of spaces in 'inline literals'.
- Deprecate ``figure_footnotes`` setting.
- Rename ``use_latex_footnotes`` setting to `docutils_footnotes`__.
- New ``latex_preamble`` setting.
- Use PDF standard fonts (Times/Helvetica/Courier) as default.
- `hyperref` package called with ``unicode`` option (see the
`hyperref config tips`__ for how to override).
- Drop the special `output_encoding`__ default ("latin-1").
The Docutils wide default (usually "UTF-8") is used instead.
__ docs/user/config.html#docutils-footnotes
__ docs/user/latex.html#hyperlinks
__ docs/user/latex.html#output-encoding
* manpage writer:
- Titles level 1, that is ``.SH``, always uppercase.
- Apply patch from mg: literal text should be bold in man-pages.
General:
* io.FileInput opens files as text files with universal newline support
(mode "rU", configurable with the new optional argument "mode").
* setup.py:
- Python 3 support: copy test/ and tools/ to the build-dir
and convert Python sources with 2to3.
Release 0.6 (2009-10-11)
========================
.. Note::
Docutils 0.5 is the last version supporting Python 2.2.
Docutils 0.6 is compatible with Python versions from 2.3 up to 2.6
and convertible to 3.1 code.
.. note::
The "newlatex" writer is orphaned.
The recommended way to generate PDF output is to use either the
LaTeX2e writer or one of the alternatives listed at
http://docutils.sourceforge.net/docs/user/links.html#pdf.
* reStructuredText:
- Allow length units for all length specifications.
- Allow percent sign in "scale" argument of "figure" and "image" directives.
- Bugfix: The "figalign" argument of a figure now works as intended
(aligning the figure not its contents).
- Align images with class "align-[right|center|left]"
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(allows setting the alignment of an image in a figure).
- Hard tabs in literal inclusions are replaced by spaces. This is
configurable via the new "tab-width" option of the "include" directive
(a negative tab-width prevents tab expansion).
* HTML writer:
- ``--stylesheet`` and ``--stylesheet-path`` options now support a comma
separated list of stylesheets.
* LaTeX2e writer:
- New defaults:
- font-encoding: "T1" (formerly implicitely set by 'ae').
- use-latex-toc: true (ToC with page numbers).
- use-latex-footnotes: true (no mixup with figures).
- Float placement defaults to "here definitely" (configurable).
- Align of image in a figure defaults to 'center'.
- Use class defaults for page margins ('typearea' now optional).
- Support LaTeX packages as ``--stylesheet`` arguments.
- Use ``bp`` for lengths without unit or unit ``pt``,
do not convert ``px`` to ``pt``.
- Do not use 'ae' and 'aeguill' packages if font-encoding is set to ''.
- Set sub- and superscript role argument as text not math.
- Support custom roles based on standard roles.
- Load packages and define macros only if required in the document.
- All Docutils specific LaTeX macros are prefixed with ``DU``.
- Better conformance to Docutils specifications with "use_latex_toc".
- If 'sectnum_xform' is False, the 'sectnum' directive triggers
section numbering by LaTeX.
- Use default font in admonitions and sidebar.
- Typeset generic topic as "quote with title".
- Use template (file and configuration option).
- Render doctest blocks as literal blocks (indented).
* ODT writer:
- moved from sandbox to Doctutils core.
* manpage writer:
- moved from sandbox to Doctutils core.
Release 0.5 (2008-06-25)
========================
Components:
* HTML writer.
- Dropped all ``name`` attributes of ``a`` elements (``id`` is
universally supported now).
* LaTeX2e writer:
- Better bibTeX citation support.
- Add ``--literal-block-env``
* PEP writer:
- Changed to support new python.org website structure and
pep2pyramid.py.
reStructuredText:
* Changed the directive API to a new object-oriented system.
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(Compatibility for the old, functional-style directive interface is
retained.) See the updated `Creating reStructuredText Directives`__
how-to.
__ docs/howto/rst-directives.html
* Allow ``+`` and ``:`` in reference names requested for citations.
Documentation:
* Added `Deploying Docutils Securely`__
__ docs/howto/security.txt
Internationalization:
* Added hebrew mappings.
General:
* Configuration files are now assumed and required to be
UTF-8-encoded.
* Added docutils/writers/html4css1/template.txt.
* Enhance emacs support.
Release 0.4 (2006-01-09)
========================
.. Note::
Docutils 0.4.x is the last version that will support Python 2.1.
Docutils 0.5 will *not* be compatible with Python 2.1; Python 2.2
or later will be required.
Docutils 0.4.x is the last version that will make compromises in
its HTML output for Netscape Navigator 4. Docutils 0.5 will
require more up-to-date browsers (the exact definition is to be
determined).
Components:
* Added an `S5/HTML writer`__ and the rst2s5.py__ front end:
multi-platform, multi-browser HTML slide shows.
__ docs/user/slide-shows.html
__ docs/user/tools.html#rst2s5-py
* The newlatex2e writer is nearing completion.
* Added a DocTree reader, ``publish_doctree`` and
``publish_from_doctree`` convenience functions, for document tree
extraction and reprocessing.
reStructuredText:
* Added directives: "container__" (generic block-level container),
"default-role__" (role used for \`backtick\` syntax), "title__"
(document title metadata), and "date__" (generate the current local
date, for substitution definitions).
__ docs/ref/rst/directives.html#container
__ docs/ref/rst/directives.html#default-role
__ docs/ref/rst/directives.html#title
__ docs/ref/rst/directives.html#date
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* Length units are now supported for image__ sizes.
__ docs/ref/rst/directives.html#image
* Added `standard definition files`__ for special characters etc.
__ docs/ref/rst/definitions.html
Internationalization:
* Added Japanese and Simplified Chinese language mappings, and support
for double-width CJK-characters in tables and section titles.
Documentation:
* Added a `guide for distributors`__ (package maintainers) and a
`guide for developers`__.
__ docs/dev/distributing.html
__ docs/dev/hacking.html
General:
* Added significant `Emacs support for reST`__.
__ docs/user/emacs.html
* Added a `--strip-comments`__ option.
__ docs/user/config.html#strip-comments
* `--embed-stylesheet`__ is now the default for the HTML writer
(rather than --link-stylesheet).
__ docs/user/config.html#embed-stylesheet
Release 0.3.9 (2005-05-26)
==========================
* Added "file_insertion_enabled__" and "raw_enabled__" settings.
__ docs/user/config.html#file-insertion-enabled
__ docs/user/config.html#raw-enabled
* Added `auto-enumerated lists`__.
__ docs/ref/rst/restructuredtext.html#enumerated-lists
* Added `"header" and "footer"`__ directives.
__ docs/ref/rst/directives.html#document-header-footer
* Added "list-table__" directive.
__ docs/ref/rst/directives.html#list-table
* Added support for `section subtitles`__.
__ docs/user/config.html#sectsubtitle-xform
* Added "field_name_limit__" and "option_limit__" settings to HTML writer.
__ docs/user/config.html#field-name-limit
__ docs/user/config.html#option-limit
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* Added "cloak_email_addresses__" setting to HTML writer.
__ docs/user/config.html#cloak-email-addresses
* UTF-8 BOMs are now removed from the input stream.
Release 0.3.7 (2004-12-24)
==========================
* A special "`line block`__" syntax has been added. (Also see the
`quick reference`__.)
__ docs/ref/rst/restructuredtext.html#line-blocks
__ docs/user/rst/quickref.html#line-blocks
* Empty sections are now allowed.
* A "raw__" role has been added.
__ docs/ref/rst/roles.html#raw
* The LaTeX writer now escapes consecutive dashes (like "--" or "---")
so that they are no longer transformed by LaTeX to en or em dashes.
(Please see the FAQ__ for how to represent such dashes.)
__ FAQ.html#how-can-i-represent-esoteric-characters-e-g-character-entities-in-a-document
* A `dependency recorder`__ has been added.
__ docs/user/config.html#record-dependencies
* A directive has been added for `compound paragraphs`__.
__ docs/ref/rst/directives.html#compound-paragraph
Release 0.3.5 (2004-07-29)
==========================
* Improved, extended and reorganized the documentation__.
__ docs/index.html
* Added "csv-table__" directive.
__ docs/ref/rst/directives.html#csv-table