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6 :Maintainer: docutils-develop@lists.sourceforge.net
9 :Web site: http://docutils.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.
37 * The default HTML writer may eventually become "html" with frontend
40 Use `get_writer_by_name('html')` or the rst2html.py_ front end, if you
41 want the output to be up-to-date automatically.
43 Use a specific writer name or front end, if you depend on stability of the
44 generated HTML code, e.g. because you use a custom style sheet or
45 post-processing that may break otherwise.
47 __ docs/user/tools.html#rst2html-py
52 * docutils/parsers/rst/:
54 - Added functionality: escaped whitespace in URI contexts.
58 - New front-end ``rst2html4.py``.
61 Release 0.13.1 (2016-12-09)
62 ===========================
64 * docutils/writers/html_plain
66 - New HTML writer generating `HTML 5`_.
71 - New front-end ``rst2html5.py``.
73 .. _HTML 5: http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/
75 * languages: persian/farsi (fa) and latvian (la) mappings.
77 * change default base url for :rfc: to http://tools.ietf.org/html/
79 * tables accept widths, a list and align
81 * latex2e: Fix admonition width, remove deprecated options,
82 better tablewidth auto, ...
84 * rst.el : The problem with ``electric-indent-mode`` has been fixed.
87 Release 0.12 (2014-07-06)
88 =========================
90 Small changes only, release current state
92 Release 0.11 (2013-07-22)
93 =========================
97 - Apply [ 2714873 ] Fix for the overwritting of document attributes.
98 - Support embedded aliases within hyperlink references.
99 - Fix [ 228 ] try local import of docutils components (reader, writer, parser,
100 language module) before global search.
102 * docutils/parsers/rst/directives/tables.py
104 - Fix [ 210 ] Python 3.3 checks CVS syntax only if "strict" is True.
106 * docutils/writers/html4css1/__init__.py
107 - Fix [ 3600051 ] for tables in a list, table cells are not compacted.
108 - New setting `stylesheet_dirs` (see above).
110 Now, it is easy to add a custom stylesheet to Docutils' default
111 stylesheet with, e.g., ``--stylesheet_path='html4css1.css, mystyle.css'``
113 Changed behaviour of the default settings:
114 if there is a file ``html4css1.css`` in the working directory of the
115 process at launch, it is used instead of the one provided by Docutils
116 in the writer source directory.
118 - New default for math-output_: ``HTML math.css``.
119 - Avoid repeated class declarations in html4css1 writer
120 (modified version of patch [ 104 ]).
122 .. _math-output: docs/user/config.html#math-output
124 * docutils/writers/latex2e/__init__.py
126 - Drop the simple algorithm replacing straight double quotes with
127 English typographic ones.
128 Activate the SmartQuotes_ transform if you want this feature.
129 - New setting `stylesheet_dirs`: Comma-separated list of directories
130 where stylesheets are found. Used by `stylesheet_path` when expanding
131 relative path arguments.
133 .. _SmartQuotes: docs/user/config.html#smart-quotes
135 * docutils/writers/manpage.py
137 - Fix [3607063] handle lines starting with a period.
138 - Fix option separating comma was bold (thanks to Bill Morris).
140 Release 0.10 (2012-12-16)
141 =========================
145 Docutils 0.9.x is the last version supporting Python 2.3.
147 Docutils 0.10 is compatible with Python versions from 2.4 to 3.2
148 (cf. `Python 3 compatibility`_).
152 - SmartQuotes transform for typographic quotes and dashes.
154 - ``docutils/math``, ``docutils/error_reporting.py``, and
155 ``docutils/urischemes.py`` moved to the utils package.
156 Code importing these modules needs to adapt, e.g.::
159 import docutils.math as math
161 import docutils.utils.math as math
163 - enhanced math and error handling.
167 - FileInput/FileOutput: no system-exit on IOError.
168 The `handle_io_errors` option is ignored.
170 .. _Python 3 compatibility: README.html#python-3-compatibility
172 * docutils/writers/html4css1/__init__.py
174 - Use ``<code>`` tag for inline "code",
175 do not drop nested inline nodes (syntax highlight tokens).
176 - Customizable MathJax URL (based on patch by Dmitry Shachnev).
177 - No line break after opening inline math tag.
179 * docutils/writers/latex2e/__init__.py, docutils/writers/xetex/__init__.py
181 - Fix section numbering by LaTeX.
183 * docutils/writers/s5_html/__init__.py
185 - Fix [ 3556388 ] Mathjax does not work with rst2s5.
188 Release 0.9.1 (2012-06-17)
189 ==========================
193 Several fixes for Python 3 usage.
197 - Fix [ 3527842 ]. Under Python 3, converted tests and tools were
198 installed in the PYTHONPATH. Converted tests are now
199 stored in ``docutils/test3/``, tools no longer need conversion.
201 If you installed one of Docutils versions 0.7 ... 0.9 with
202 ``setup.py install`` under Python 3, remove the spurious
203 ``test/`` and ``tools/`` directories in the site library root.
206 Release 0.9 (2012-05-02)
207 =========================
211 - reStructuredText "code" role and directive with syntax highlighting
213 - "code" option of the "include" directive.
215 .. _Pygments: http://pygments.org/
217 - Fix [ 3402314 ] allow non-ASCII whitespace, punctuation
218 characters and "international" quotes around inline markup.
220 - Fix handling of missing stylesheets.
224 - Fix [ 2971827 ] and [ 3442827 ]
225 extras/roman.py moved to docutils/utils/roman.py
227 * docutils/utils.py -> docutils/utils/__init__.py
229 - docutils.utils is now a package (providing a place for sub-modules)
231 * docutils/writers/html4css1/__init__.py
233 - change default for `math-output` setting to MathJax
235 * docutils/writers/latex2e/__init__.py
237 - Support the `abbreviation` and `acronym` standard roles.
238 - Record only files required to generate the LaTeX source as dependencies.
239 - Use ``\setcounter{secnumdepth}{0}`` instead of ``*``-versions
240 when suppressing LaTeX section numbering.
243 Release 0.8.1 (2011-08-30)
244 ==========================
248 - Fix [ 3364658 ] (Change last file with Apache license to BSD-2-Clause)
249 and [ 3395920 ] (correct copyright info for rst.el).
251 * docutils/writers/latex2e/__init__.py
253 - Clean up Babel language setting. Restores Sphinx compatibility.
256 Release 0.8 (2011-07-07)
257 ========================
261 - Some additions to the Docutils core are released under the 2-Clause BSD
266 - Handle language codes according to `BCP 47`_.
267 - If the specified langauage is not supported by Docutils,
268 warn and fall back to English.
269 - Math support: reStructuredText "math" role and directive,
270 ``math`` and ``math_block`` doctree elements.
271 - Orphaned "python" reader and "newlatex2e" writer moved to the sandbox.
273 .. _BCP 47: http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/bcp/bcp47.txt
277 - most directives now support a "name" option that attaches a
278 reference name. So you can write ::
280 .. figure:: image.png
283 as a short form of ::
287 .. figure:: image.png
289 Internationalization:
291 * Added lithuanian mappings.
297 - New setting "math-output" with support for HTML, MathML, and LaTeX.
301 - Convert image URI to a local file path.
302 - Apply [ 3148141 ] fix multicolumn support when a colspanning cell
303 has more than one paragraph (Wolfgang Scherer).
307 - New writer generating LaTeX code for compiling with ``xelatex``.
309 XeTeX uses unicode and modern font technologies.
311 * and fixes and enhancements here and there.
314 Release 0.7 (2010-07-07)
315 ========================
321 - Support SVG and SWF images (thanks to Stefan Rank).
322 - Generate valid XHTML for centered images with targets.
323 Use CSS classes instead of "align" tags for image alignment.
327 - Use the ``\url`` command for URLs (breaks long URLs instead of writing
329 - Preserve runs of spaces in 'inline literals'.
330 - Deprecate ``figure_footnotes`` setting.
331 - Rename ``use_latex_footnotes`` setting to `docutils_footnotes`__.
332 - New ``latex_preamble`` setting.
333 - Use PDF standard fonts (Times/Helvetica/Courier) as default.
334 - `hyperref` package called with ``unicode`` option (see the
335 `hyperref config tips`__ for how to override).
336 - Drop the special `output_encoding`__ default ("latin-1").
337 The Docutils wide default (usually "UTF-8") is used instead.
339 __ docs/user/config.html#docutils-footnotes
340 __ docs/user/latex.html#hyperlinks
341 __ docs/user/latex.html#output-encoding
345 - Titles level 1, that is ``.SH``, always uppercase.
346 - Apply patch from mg: literal text should be bold in man-pages.
350 * io.FileInput opens files as text files with universal newline support
351 (mode "rU", configurable with the new optional argument "mode").
355 - Python 3 support: copy test/ and tools/ to the build-dir
356 and convert Python sources with 2to3.
359 Release 0.6 (2009-10-11)
360 ========================
364 Docutils 0.5 is the last version supporting Python 2.2.
366 Docutils 0.6 is compatible with Python versions from 2.3 up to 2.6
367 and convertible to 3.1 code.
371 The "newlatex" writer is orphaned.
373 The recommended way to generate PDF output is to use either the
374 LaTeX2e writer or one of the alternatives listed at
375 http://docutils.sourceforge.net/docs/user/links.html#pdf.
379 - Allow length units for all length specifications.
380 - Allow percent sign in "scale" argument of "figure" and "image" directives.
381 - Bugfix: The "figalign" argument of a figure now works as intended
382 (aligning the figure not its contents).
383 - Align images with class "align-[right|center|left]"
384 (allows setting the alignment of an image in a figure).
385 - Hard tabs in literal inclusions are replaced by spaces. This is
386 configurable via the new "tab-width" option of the "include" directive
387 (a negative tab-width prevents tab expansion).
391 - ``--stylesheet`` and ``--stylesheet-path`` options now support a comma
392 separated list of stylesheets.
397 - font-encoding: "T1" (formerly implicitely set by 'ae').
398 - use-latex-toc: true (ToC with page numbers).
399 - use-latex-footnotes: true (no mixup with figures).
400 - Float placement defaults to "here definitely" (configurable).
401 - Align of image in a figure defaults to 'center'.
402 - Use class defaults for page margins ('typearea' now optional).
403 - Support LaTeX packages as ``--stylesheet`` arguments.
404 - Use ``bp`` for lengths without unit or unit ``pt``,
405 do not convert ``px`` to ``pt``.
406 - Do not use 'ae' and 'aeguill' packages if font-encoding is set to ''.
407 - Set sub- and superscript role argument as text not math.
408 - Support custom roles based on standard roles.
409 - Load packages and define macros only if required in the document.
410 - All Docutils specific LaTeX macros are prefixed with ``DU``.
411 - Better conformance to Docutils specifications with "use_latex_toc".
412 - If 'sectnum_xform' is False, the 'sectnum' directive triggers
413 section numbering by LaTeX.
414 - Use default font in admonitions and sidebar.
415 - Typeset generic topic as "quote with title".
416 - Use template (file and configuration option).
417 - Render doctest blocks as literal blocks (indented).
421 - moved from sandbox to Doctutils core.
425 - moved from sandbox to Doctutils core.
428 Release 0.5 (2008-06-25)
429 ========================
435 - Dropped all ``name`` attributes of ``a`` elements (``id`` is
436 universally supported now).
440 - Better bibTeX citation support.
441 - Add ``--literal-block-env``
445 - Changed to support new python.org website structure and
450 * Changed the directive API to a new object-oriented system.
451 (Compatibility for the old, functional-style directive interface is
452 retained.) See the updated `Creating reStructuredText Directives`__
455 __ docs/howto/rst-directives.html
457 * Allow ``+`` and ``:`` in reference names requested for citations.
461 * Added `Deploying Docutils Securely`__
463 __ docs/howto/security.txt
465 Internationalization:
467 * Added hebrew mappings.
471 * Configuration files are now assumed and required to be
474 * Added docutils/writers/html4css1/template.txt.
476 * Enhance emacs support.
479 Release 0.4 (2006-01-09)
480 ========================
484 Docutils 0.4.x is the last version that will support Python 2.1.
485 Docutils 0.5 will *not* be compatible with Python 2.1; Python 2.2
486 or later will be required.
488 Docutils 0.4.x is the last version that will make compromises in
489 its HTML output for Netscape Navigator 4. Docutils 0.5 will
490 require more up-to-date browsers (the exact definition is to be
495 * Added an `S5/HTML writer`__ and the rst2s5.py__ front end:
496 multi-platform, multi-browser HTML slide shows.
498 __ docs/user/slide-shows.html
499 __ docs/user/tools.html#rst2s5-py
501 * The newlatex2e writer is nearing completion.
503 * Added a DocTree reader, ``publish_doctree`` and
504 ``publish_from_doctree`` convenience functions, for document tree
505 extraction and reprocessing.
509 * Added directives: "container__" (generic block-level container),
510 "default-role__" (role used for \`backtick\` syntax), "title__"
511 (document title metadata), and "date__" (generate the current local
512 date, for substitution definitions).
514 __ docs/ref/rst/directives.html#container
515 __ docs/ref/rst/directives.html#default-role
516 __ docs/ref/rst/directives.html#title
517 __ docs/ref/rst/directives.html#date
519 * Length units are now supported for image__ sizes.
521 __ docs/ref/rst/directives.html#image
523 * Added `standard definition files`__ for special characters etc.
525 __ docs/ref/rst/definitions.html
527 Internationalization:
529 * Added Japanese and Simplified Chinese language mappings, and support
530 for double-width CJK-characters in tables and section titles.
534 * Added a `guide for distributors`__ (package maintainers) and a
535 `guide for developers`__.
537 __ docs/dev/distributing.html
538 __ docs/dev/hacking.html
542 * Added significant `Emacs support for reST`__.
544 __ docs/user/emacs.html
546 * Added a `--strip-comments`__ option.
548 __ docs/user/config.html#strip-comments
550 * `--embed-stylesheet`__ is now the default for the HTML writer
551 (rather than --link-stylesheet).
553 __ docs/user/config.html#embed-stylesheet
556 Release 0.3.9 (2005-05-26)
557 ==========================
559 * Added "file_insertion_enabled__" and "raw_enabled__" settings.
561 __ docs/user/config.html#file-insertion-enabled
562 __ docs/user/config.html#raw-enabled
564 * Added `auto-enumerated lists`__.
566 __ docs/ref/rst/restructuredtext.html#enumerated-lists
568 * Added `"header" and "footer"`__ directives.
570 __ docs/ref/rst/directives.html#document-header-footer
572 * Added "list-table__" directive.
574 __ docs/ref/rst/directives.html#list-table
576 * Added support for `section subtitles`__.
578 __ docs/user/config.html#sectsubtitle-xform
580 * Added "field_name_limit__" and "option_limit__" settings to HTML writer.
582 __ docs/user/config.html#field-name-limit
583 __ docs/user/config.html#option-limit
585 * Added "cloak_email_addresses__" setting to HTML writer.
587 __ docs/user/config.html#cloak-email-addresses
589 * UTF-8 BOMs are now removed from the input stream.
592 Release 0.3.7 (2004-12-24)
593 ==========================
595 * A special "`line block`__" syntax has been added. (Also see the
596 `quick reference`__.)
598 __ docs/ref/rst/restructuredtext.html#line-blocks
599 __ docs/user/rst/quickref.html#line-blocks
601 * Empty sections are now allowed.
603 * A "raw__" role has been added.
605 __ docs/ref/rst/roles.html#raw
607 * The LaTeX writer now escapes consecutive dashes (like "--" or "---")
608 so that they are no longer transformed by LaTeX to en or em dashes.
609 (Please see the FAQ__ for how to represent such dashes.)
611 __ FAQ.html#how-can-i-represent-esoteric-characters-e-g-character-entities-in-a-document
613 * A `dependency recorder`__ has been added.
615 __ docs/user/config.html#record-dependencies
617 * A directive has been added for `compound paragraphs`__.
619 __ docs/ref/rst/directives.html#compound-paragraph
622 Release 0.3.5 (2004-07-29)
623 ==========================
625 * Improved, extended and reorganized the documentation__.
629 * Added "csv-table__" directive.
631 __ docs/ref/rst/directives.html#csv-table