## kramdown 0.5.0 released

This release features syntax support for smart quotes in kramdown documents and a new converter for
LaTeX output. The kramdown binary has also been enhanced to support setting any option.

The additional support for the smart quotes makes this release of kramdown a little bit slower than
the previous releases when run under Ruby 1.8. However, a small optimization in the span parser
which is not noticable under Ruby 1.8 gives quite a performance boost under Ruby 1.9 (see the graphs
on the [tests page](../tests.html)).

Also note that the internals have been restructured slightly. So if you do more than just using the
basic

Kramdown::Document.new(SOURCE, OPTIONS).to_html
{: lang="ruby"}

you may need to adapt your code.

Since the option handling has been revamped, each coderay option must not be set separably!

## Changes

* Major changes:

- Enhanced the `kramdown` binary (it now supports setting the available options)
- Added support for ERB templates to wrap the generated output
- Added syntax support for smart quotes
- Added a converter for LaTeX output

* Minor changes:

- Some code restructurations
- The quotation mark `"` is not converted to `"` in normal text anymore.

* Bug fixes:

- Fixed problem with multibyte encodings under Ruby 1.9



About kramdown

kramdown is a fast, pure-Ruby Markdown-superset converter.

kramdown is yet-another-markdown-parser but fast, pure Ruby,
using a strict syntax definition and supporting several common extensions.