pandoc 3.3

[jgm]

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• New cli option: --link-images. This causes images to be linked rather than embedded in ODT.

• Allow --number-sections to take an optional true|false argument.

• RTF reader:

  • Handle \*\shppict without dropping image (Pandoc file conversion RTF to PDF #10025).

• TWiki Reader:

  • Recognize WikiWords as internal links (From TWiki to Markdown: Words in PascalCase not converted to links #9941).
  • Avoid partial function.

• Typst reader:

  • Ignore ‘pad’ and just parse its body (Basic Typst --> HTML Question #9958).
  • Use typst 0.5.0.5. Fixes parsing of equations like $1.$.

• Docx writer:

  • Fix regression with nested lists (Generation of indented mixed lists from markdown to docx #9994). The bug affects e.g. ordered lists with bullet sublists; after the sublist the top-level list reverts to bullets instead of being properly numbered. This is a regression introduced in version 3.2.1.

• BibTeX writer:

  • Ensure that “literal” names are enclosed in braces (literal author not written correctly (bibtex) #9987).

• Man writer:

  • Use default middle header when metadata does not include header (Man writer: use default middle header when calling .TH when metadata does not include one #9943). This change causes pandoc to omit the middle header parameter when header is not set, rather than emitting "". The parameter is optional and man will use a default based on the section if it is not specified.

• HTML templates: don’t load polyfill (Consider removing polyfill because MathJax should no longer need it #9918). This was added in a period when MathJaX required polyfill. MathJaX no longer recommends this and polyfill should no longer be necessary on any reasonably modern browser.

• Translations:

  • Add ua.yaml (Jens Oehlschlägel).
  • Add a script (tools/update-translations.py) and Makefile target (update-translations) to update translation data automatically from babel and polyglossia upstream (Stephen Huan).
  • Use this script to update language data, increasing the number of languages we cover (Stephen Huan). Fix a few small bugs in existing translations.

• Fix some mistakes with Japanese language code (--metadata lang=ja-JP has been expected to work for docx output as same as other East-Asian languages such as zh-CN #9938). In several places we were mistakenly assuming that the BCP 47 code for Japanese language was jp. It is ja.

• Text.Pandoc.Options:

  • New field in WriterOptions: writerLinkImages [API change] (Option to Link Images Rather Than Embed Them For ODT #9815).

• Text.Pandoc.App.Opt:

  • New field in Opt: optLinkImages [API change] (Option to Link Images Rather Than Embed Them For ODT #9815).

• Lua subsystem:

  • Keep lpeg and re as “loaded” modules (Albert Krewinkel). The modules lpeg and re are now treated as if they had been loaded with require. Previously the modules were only assigned to global values, but could be loaded again via require, thereby allowing to use a system-wide installation. However, this proved to be confusing.

    The old behavior can be restored by adding the following lines to the top of Lua scripts, or to the init.lua in the data dir.

    debug.registry()['_LOADED'].lpeg = nil
    debug.registry()['_LOADED'].re = nil
    

• pandoc-cli: Include pandoc copyright in Lua version info (Albert Krewinkel).

• pandoc-cli: Refer printing of version info to the Lua interpreter (Albert Krewinkel). The Lua interpreter no longer terminates when called with -v or --version arguments, thus improving compatibility with the default lua interpreter program.

• Avoid partial functions in JATS reader, DocBook writer, Haddock reader.

• Allow tls 2.1.x.

• MANUAL.txt:

  • Make documentation of extensions clearer (+citations should be enabled in GFM and better documented #9060).
  • Fix section level for two Extensions entries.

• lua-filters.md: Partially autogenerate docs for module pandoc (Albert Krewinkel). The documentation system isn’t powerful enough to generate the full documentation automatically.

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This discussion was created from the release pandoc 3.3.

[jgm]

I'm pleased to announce the release of pandoc 3.3,
available in the usual places:

Binary packages & changelog:
https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/releases/tag/3.3

Source & API documentation:
http://hackage.haskell.org/package/pandoc-3.3

Some changes of particular note (inspect changelog for the full list):

• The docx writer fixes a serious regression with nested lists,
  introduced in the last release (3.2.1).

• New cli option: --link-images. This causes images to be linked
  rather than embedded in ODT.

• --number-sections can now take an optional true|false argument,
  like other flag arguments.

• Improved localization support for labels like "Figure," with many
  new languages supported.

• re and lpeg modules are now loaded differently in Lua filters.
  They are now treated as if they have been loaded by 'require'.
  If you desire the old behavior, which allowed you to replace
  our built-in re and lpeg modules with system modules by
  requiring them, a workaround is described in the changelog.

API changes:

• New field in WriterOptions: writerLinkImages.
• New field in Opt: optLinkImages.

Thanks to all who contributed, and a special welcome to new contributors
Stephen Huan and Jens Oehlschlägel.