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6 :Maintainer: docutils-develop@lists.sourceforge.net
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13 This document summarizes the major changes in recent releases. For a
14 more detailed list of changes, please see the `Docutils History`_.
16 .. _Docutils History: HISTORY.html
23 * remove the `handle_io_errors` option from io.FileInput/Output.
25 .. used by Sphinx up to version 1.3.1,
26 see https://github.com/sphinx-doc/sphinx/issues/1834
28 * »Prune« the doctree (no change to the reST input syntax):
30 - "doctest" element -> literal block with "pycon" (python-console)
31 class argument and syntax highlight (like the "code" directive),
32 - special admonitions (note, hint, warning, ...) -> generic "admonition"
33 element with class attribute and auto-generated title.
35 * Drop support for python 2.4 after release 0.13.
43 - New HTML writers generating `HTML 5`_ and `XHTML 1.1`_.
45 New stylesheet ``html-base.css`` for default layout using CSS 2.1.
49 - New front-ends ``rst2xhtml.py`` and ``rst2html5.py`` for the
50 corresponding writers.
52 .. _HTML 5: http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/
53 .. _XHTML 1.1: http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/
56 Release 0.12 (2014-07-06)
57 =========================
59 Small changes only, release current state
61 Release 0.11 (2013-07-22)
62 =========================
66 - Apply [ 2714873 ] Fix for the overwritting of document attributes.
67 - Support embedded aliases within hyperlink references.
68 - Fix [ 228 ] try local import of docutils components (reader, writer, parser,
69 language module) before global search.
71 * docutils/parsers/rst/directives/tables.py
73 - Fix [ 210 ] Python 3.3 checks CVS syntax only if "strict" is True.
75 * docutils/writers/html4css1/__init__.py
76 - Fix [ 3600051 ] for tables in a list, table cells are not compacted.
77 - New setting `stylesheet_dirs` (see above).
79 Now, it is easy to add a custom stylesheet to Docutils' default
80 stylesheet with, e.g., ``--stylesheet_path='html4css1.css, mystyle.css'``
82 Changed behaviour of the default settings:
83 if there is a file ``html4css1.css`` in the working directory of the
84 process at launch, it is used instead of the one provided by Docutils
85 in the writer source directory.
87 - New default for math-output_: ``HTML math.css``.
88 - Avoid repeated class declarations in html4css1 writer
89 (modified version of patch [ 104 ]).
91 .. _math-output: docs/user/config.html#math-output
93 * docutils/writers/latex2e/__init__.py
95 - Drop the simple algorithm replacing straight double quotes with
96 English typographic ones.
97 Activate the SmartQuotes_ transform if you want this feature.
98 - New setting `stylesheet_dirs`: Comma-separated list of directories
99 where stylesheets are found. Used by `stylesheet_path` when expanding
100 relative path arguments.
102 .. _SmartQuotes: docs/user/config.html#smart-quotes
104 * docutils/writers/manpage.py
106 - Fix [3607063] handle lines starting with a period.
107 - Fix option separating comma was bold (thanks to Bill Morris).
109 Release 0.10 (2012-12-16)
110 =========================
114 Docutils 0.9.x is the last version supporting Python 2.3.
116 Docutils 0.10 is compatible with Python versions from 2.4 to 3.2
117 (cf. `Python 3 compatibility`_).
121 - SmartQuotes transform for typographic quotes and dashes.
123 - ``docutils/math``, ``docutils/error_reporting.py``, and
124 ``docutils/urischemes.py`` moved to the utils package.
125 Code importing these modules needs to adapt, e.g.::
128 import docutils.math as math
130 import docutils.utils.math as math
132 - enhanced math and error handling.
136 - FileInput/FileOutput: no system-exit on IOError.
137 The `handle_io_errors` option is ignored.
139 .. _Python 3 compatibility: README.html#python-3-compatibility
141 * docutils/writers/html4css1/__init__.py
143 - Use ``<code>`` tag for inline "code",
144 do not drop nested inline nodes (syntax highlight tokens).
145 - Customizable MathJax URL (based on patch by Dmitry Shachnev).
146 - No line break after opening inline math tag.
148 * docutils/writers/latex2e/__init__.py, docutils/writers/xetex/__init__.py
150 - Fix section numbering by LaTeX.
152 * docutils/writers/s5_html/__init__.py
154 - Fix [ 3556388 ] Mathjax does not work with rst2s5.
157 Release 0.9.1 (2012-06-17)
158 ==========================
162 Several fixes for Python 3 usage.
166 - Fix [ 3527842 ]. Under Python 3, converted tests and tools were
167 installed in the PYTHONPATH. Converted tests are now
168 stored in ``docutils/test3/``, tools no longer need conversion.
170 If you installed one of Docutils versions 0.7 ... 0.9 with
171 ``setup.py install`` under Python 3, remove the spurious
172 ``test/`` and ``tools/`` directories in the site library root.
175 Release 0.9 (2012-05-02)
176 =========================
180 - reStructuredText "code" role and directive with syntax highlighting
182 - "code" option of the "include" directive.
184 .. _Pygments: http://pygments.org/
186 - Fix [ 3402314 ] allow non-ASCII whitespace, punctuation
187 characters and "international" quotes around inline markup.
189 - Fix handling of missing stylesheets.
193 - Fix [ 2971827 ] and [ 3442827 ]
194 extras/roman.py moved to docutils/utils/roman.py
196 * docutils/utils.py -> docutils/utils/__init__.py
198 - docutils.utils is now a package (providing a place for sub-modules)
200 * docutils/writers/html4css1/__init__.py
202 - change default for `math-output` setting to MathJax
204 * docutils/writers/latex2e/__init__.py
206 - Support the `abbreviation` and `acronym` standard roles.
207 - Record only files required to generate the LaTeX source as dependencies.
208 - Use ``\setcounter{secnumdepth}{0}`` instead of ``*``-versions
209 when suppressing LaTeX section numbering.
212 Release 0.8.1 (2011-08-30)
213 ==========================
217 - Fix [ 3364658 ] (Change last file with Apache license to BSD-2-Clause)
218 and [ 3395920 ] (correct copyright info for rst.el).
220 * docutils/writers/latex2e/__init__.py
222 - Clean up Babel language setting. Restores Sphinx compatibility.
225 Release 0.8 (2011-07-07)
226 ========================
230 - Some additions to the Docutils core are released under the 2-Clause BSD
235 - Handle language codes according to `BCP 47`_.
236 - If the specified langauage is not supported by Docutils,
237 warn and fall back to English.
238 - Math support: reStructuredText "math" role and directive,
239 ``math`` and ``math_block`` doctree elements.
240 - Orphaned "python" reader and "newlatex2e" writer moved to the sandbox.
242 .. _BCP 47: http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/bcp/bcp47.txt
246 - most directives now support a "name" option that attaches a
247 reference name. So you can write ::
249 .. figure:: image.png
252 as a short form of ::
256 .. figure:: image.png
258 Internationalization:
260 * Added lithuanian mappings.
266 - New setting "math-output" with support for HTML, MathML, and LaTeX.
270 - Convert image URI to a local file path.
271 - Apply [ 3148141 ] fix multicolumn support when a colspanning cell
272 has more than one paragraph (Wolfgang Scherer).
276 - New writer generating LaTeX code for compiling with ``xelatex``.
278 XeTeX uses unicode and modern font technologies.
280 * and fixes and enhancements here and there.
283 Release 0.7 (2010-07-07)
284 ========================
290 - Support SVG and SWF images (thanks to Stefan Rank).
291 - Generate valid XHTML for centered images with targets.
292 Use CSS classes instead of "align" tags for image alignment.
296 - Use the ``\url`` command for URLs (breaks long URLs instead of writing
298 - Preserve runs of spaces in 'inline literals'.
299 - Deprecate ``figure_footnotes`` setting.
300 - Rename ``use_latex_footnotes`` setting to `docutils_footnotes`__.
301 - New ``latex_preamble`` setting.
302 - Use PDF standard fonts (Times/Helvetica/Courier) as default.
303 - `hyperref` package called with ``unicode`` option (see the
304 `hyperref config tips`__ for how to override).
305 - Drop the special `output_encoding`__ default ("latin-1").
306 The Docutils wide default (usually "UTF-8") is used instead.
308 __ docs/user/config.html#docutils-footnotes
309 __ docs/user/latex.html#hyperlinks
310 __ docs/user/latex.html#output-encoding
314 - Titles level 1, that is ``.SH``, always uppercase.
315 - Apply patch from mg: literal text should be bold in man-pages.
319 * io.FileInput opens files as text files with universal newline support
320 (mode "rU", configurable with the new optional argument "mode").
324 - Python 3 support: copy test/ and tools/ to the build-dir
325 and convert Python sources with 2to3.
328 Release 0.6 (2009-10-11)
329 ========================
333 Docutils 0.5 is the last version supporting Python 2.2.
335 Docutils 0.6 is compatible with Python versions from 2.3 up to 2.6
336 and convertible to 3.1 code.
340 The "newlatex" writer is orphaned.
342 The recommended way to generate PDF output is to use either the
343 LaTeX2e writer or one of the alternatives listed at
344 http://docutils.sourceforge.net/docs/user/links.html#pdf.
348 - Allow length units for all length specifications.
349 - Allow percent sign in "scale" argument of "figure" and "image" directives.
350 - Bugfix: The "figalign" argument of a figure now works as intended
351 (aligning the figure not its contents).
352 - Align images with class "align-[right|center|left]"
353 (allows setting the alignment of an image in a figure).
354 - Hard tabs in literal inclusions are replaced by spaces. This is
355 configurable via the new "tab-width" option of the "include" directive
356 (a negative tab-width prevents tab expansion).
360 - ``--stylesheet`` and ``--stylesheet-path`` options now support a comma
361 separated list of stylesheets.
366 - font-encoding: "T1" (formerly implicitely set by 'ae').
367 - use-latex-toc: true (ToC with page numbers).
368 - use-latex-footnotes: true (no mixup with figures).
369 - Float placement defaults to "here definitely" (configurable).
370 - Align of image in a figure defaults to 'center'.
371 - Use class defaults for page margins ('typearea' now optional).
372 - Support LaTeX packages as ``--stylesheet`` arguments.
373 - Use ``bp`` for lengths without unit or unit ``pt``,
374 do not convert ``px`` to ``pt``.
375 - Do not use 'ae' and 'aeguill' packages if font-encoding is set to ''.
376 - Set sub- and superscript role argument as text not math.
377 - Support custom roles based on standard roles.
378 - Load packages and define macros only if required in the document.
379 - All Docutils specific LaTeX macros are prefixed with ``DU``.
380 - Better conformance to Docutils specifications with "use_latex_toc".
381 - If 'sectnum_xform' is False, the 'sectnum' directive triggers
382 section numbering by LaTeX.
383 - Use default font in admonitions and sidebar.
384 - Typeset generic topic as "quote with title".
385 - Use template (file and configuration option).
386 - Render doctest blocks as literal blocks (indented).
390 - moved from sandbox to Doctutils core.
394 - moved from sandbox to Doctutils core.
397 Release 0.5 (2008-06-25)
398 ========================
404 - Dropped all ``name`` attributes of ``a`` elements (``id`` is
405 universally supported now).
409 - Better bibTeX citation support.
410 - Add ``--literal-block-env``
414 - Changed to support new python.org website structure and
419 * Changed the directive API to a new object-oriented system.
420 (Compatibility for the old, functional-style directive interface is
421 retained.) See the updated `Creating reStructuredText Directives`__
424 __ docs/howto/rst-directives.html
426 * Allow ``+`` and ``:`` in reference names requested for citations.
430 * Added `Deploying Docutils Securely`__
432 __ docs/howto/security.txt
434 Internationalization:
436 * Added hebrew mappings.
440 * Configuration files are now assumed and required to be
443 * Added docutils/writers/html4css1/template.txt.
445 * Enhance emacs support.
448 Release 0.4 (2006-01-09)
449 ========================
453 Docutils 0.4.x is the last version that will support Python 2.1.
454 Docutils 0.5 will *not* be compatible with Python 2.1; Python 2.2
455 or later will be required.
457 Docutils 0.4.x is the last version that will make compromises in
458 its HTML output for Netscape Navigator 4. Docutils 0.5 will
459 require more up-to-date browsers (the exact definition is to be
464 * Added an `S5/HTML writer`__ and the rst2s5.py__ front end:
465 multi-platform, multi-browser HTML slide shows.
467 __ docs/user/slide-shows.html
468 __ docs/user/tools.html#rst2s5-py
470 * The newlatex2e writer is nearing completion.
472 * Added a DocTree reader, ``publish_doctree`` and
473 ``publish_from_doctree`` convenience functions, for document tree
474 extraction and reprocessing.
478 * Added directives: "container__" (generic block-level container),
479 "default-role__" (role used for \`backtick\` syntax), "title__"
480 (document title metadata), and "date__" (generate the current local
481 date, for substitution definitions).
483 __ docs/ref/rst/directives.html#container
484 __ docs/ref/rst/directives.html#default-role
485 __ docs/ref/rst/directives.html#title
486 __ docs/ref/rst/directives.html#date
488 * Length units are now supported for image__ sizes.
490 __ docs/ref/rst/directives.html#image
492 * Added `standard definition files`__ for special characters etc.
494 __ docs/ref/rst/definitions.html
496 Internationalization:
498 * Added Japanese and Simplified Chinese language mappings, and support
499 for double-width CJK-characters in tables and section titles.
503 * Added a `guide for distributors`__ (package maintainers) and a
504 `guide for developers`__.
506 __ docs/dev/distributing.html
507 __ docs/dev/hacking.html
511 * Added significant `Emacs support for reST`__.
513 __ docs/user/emacs.html
515 * Added a `--strip-comments`__ option.
517 __ docs/user/config.html#strip-comments
519 * `--embed-stylesheet`__ is now the default for the HTML writer
520 (rather than --link-stylesheet).
522 __ docs/user/config.html#embed-stylesheet
525 Release 0.3.9 (2005-05-26)
526 ==========================
528 * Added "file_insertion_enabled__" and "raw_enabled__" settings.
530 __ docs/user/config.html#file-insertion-enabled
531 __ docs/user/config.html#raw-enabled
533 * Added `auto-enumerated lists`__.
535 __ docs/ref/rst/restructuredtext.html#enumerated-lists
537 * Added `"header" and "footer"`__ directives.
539 __ docs/ref/rst/directives.html#document-header-footer
541 * Added "list-table__" directive.
543 __ docs/ref/rst/directives.html#list-table
545 * Added support for `section subtitles`__.
547 __ docs/user/config.html#sectsubtitle-xform
549 * Added "field_name_limit__" and "option_limit__" settings to HTML writer.
551 __ docs/user/config.html#field-name-limit
552 __ docs/user/config.html#option-limit
554 * Added "cloak_email_addresses__" setting to HTML writer.
556 __ docs/user/config.html#cloak-email-addresses
558 * UTF-8 BOMs are now removed from the input stream.
561 Release 0.3.7 (2004-12-24)
562 ==========================
564 * A special "`line block`__" syntax has been added. (Also see the
565 `quick reference`__.)
567 __ docs/ref/rst/restructuredtext.html#line-blocks
568 __ docs/user/rst/quickref.html#line-blocks
570 * Empty sections are now allowed.
572 * A "raw__" role has been added.
574 __ docs/ref/rst/roles.html#raw
576 * The LaTeX writer now escapes consecutive dashes (like "--" or "---")
577 so that they are no longer transformed by LaTeX to en or em dashes.
578 (Please see the FAQ__ for how to represent such dashes.)
580 __ FAQ.html#how-can-i-represent-esoteric-characters-e-g-character-entities-in-a-document
582 * A `dependency recorder`__ has been added.
584 __ docs/user/config.html#record-dependencies
586 * A directive has been added for `compound paragraphs`__.
588 __ docs/ref/rst/directives.html#compound-paragraph
591 Release 0.3.5 (2004-07-29)
592 ==========================
594 * Improved, extended and reorganized the documentation__.
598 * Added "csv-table__" directive.
600 __ docs/ref/rst/directives.html#csv-table