[kramdown-users] [ANN] kramdown 0.7.0 released

[Shawn Van Ittersum]

Hi Thomas,

Since switching to kramdown 0.7, inline links are no longer being generated:

[text](target)

does not get interpreted.  This is obviously a serious issue...

Shawn

On Fri, 7 May 2010 12:40:20 +0200, Thomas Leitner wrote:
> ## About kramdown
> 
> kramdown (sic, not Kramdown or KramDown, just kramdown) is a *free*
> GPL-licensed [Ruby](http://www.ruby-lang.org) library for parsing a
> superset of Markdown. It is completely written in Ruby, supports
> standard Markdown (with some minor modifications) and various
> extensions that have been made popular by the [PHP Markdown Extra]
> package and [Maruku].
> Homepage for installation instructions and documentation:
>     http://kramdown.rubyforge.org
> 
> 
> ## kramdown 0.7.0 released
> 
> This release adds syntax support for abbreviations. This means that
> kramdown is now syntax-wise on par with Maruku and PHP Markdown Extra!
> 
> Another big change is the extension support: After some discussion on
> the mailing list (many thanks to Eric Sunshine and Shawn Van Ittersum),
> the syntax for the extensions has been changed and support for custom
> extensions will be dropped in a future release.
> 
> Additionally, the option `auto_ids` has been moved from being
> interpreted by the parser to being interpreted by the converters. This
> means that it is not possible anymore to turn automatic header ID
> generation on or off for parts of a text.
> 
> The HTML and LaTeX converters also gained the ability to generate a
> table of contents. Just add the reference name "toc" to an ordered or
> unordered list and it will be replaced by the ToC (this is
> "coincidentally" the same syntax that Maruku uses...).
> 
> 
> ## Changes
> 
> * Major changes:
> 
>   - Added support for PHP Markdown Extra like abbreviations
>   - Added support for span extensions
>   - New syntax for block/span extensions
>   - Added support for generating a table of contents in the HTML and
>     LaTeX converters
> 
> * Minor changes:
> 
>   - The option `auto_ids` has been moved from the parser to the
>     converters.
>   - Invalid span IALs are now removed from the output
>   - IALs can now be applied to individual list items by placing the IAL
>     directly after the list item marker
>   - Added an option for prefixing automatically generated IDs with a
>     string
>   - Block IALs can now also be put before a block element
> 
> * Bug fixes:
> 
>   - Fixed a problem with parsing smart quotes at the beginning of a
>     line (reported by Michael Franzl)
> 
> * Deprecation notes:
> 
>   - Removed deprecated CLI option `-f`
>   - The old extension syntax and support for custom extensions will be
>     removed in the next release.
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