Vít Starý Novotný submitted an update to the

markdown

package.

Version: 3.7.1-0-g8e726800 2024-09-30 License: lppl1.3c

Summary description: Converting and rendering markdown documents inside TeX

Announcement text: ----------------------------------------------------------------------

Development:

- Remove dependency on `UnicodeData.txt`. (#400, #458 #486, #492, #499)

This change improves the speed of parsing markdown input by up to 25% for a cold conversion run and makes life easier for users of TeX distributions other than TeX Live, such as MikTeX and ConTeXt Standalone, where `UnicodeData.txt` may not be as easily available. This change also adds a new file `markdown-unicode-data.lua`, which must be properly installed with the rest of the Markdown package.

- Add renderers `warning` and `error` that represent warnings and errors produced by the markdown parser. (#452, #473, #496)

Fixes:

- Properly load LaTeX themes when `theme` or `import` is used in `usepackage[...]{markdown}`. (#471, #498)

- Prevent endless loop when setting deprecated `jekyllDataString` (renderer) prototype. (#500)

- Correctly handle backslashes in `markdownOptionOutputDir` on Windows. (#492, #500, reported by @l0th3r)

- Fix hard line breaks in blockquotes. (#494, #495, reported by @l0th3r, #496, contributed by @lostenderman)

Deprecation:

- Soft-deprecate the `hybrid` option. (#470, #504, 546faa87)

Soft-deprecated features will never be removed but using them prints a warning and is discouraged. Instead of the `hybrid` option, consider one of the following better alternatives for mixing TeX and markdown:

- With the `contentBlocks` option, authors can move large blocks of TeX code to separate files and include them in their markdown documents as external resources.

- With the `rawAttribute` option, authors can denote raw text spans and code blocks that will be interpreted as TeX code.

- With options `texMathDollars`, `texMathSingleBackslash`, and `texMathDoubleBackslash`, authors can freely type TeX commands between dollar signs or backslash-escaped brackets.

For more information, see the user manual at https://witiko.github.io/markdown/.

----------------------------------------------------------------------

The package’s Catalogue entry can be viewed at https://ctan.org/pkg/markdown

The package’s files themselves can be inspected at https://mirrors.ctan.org/macros/generic/markdown/

------------------------------------------------------------------------

Thanks for the upload.

For the CTAN Team Petra Rübe-Pugliese

------------------------------------------------------------------------

CTAN is run entirely by volunteers and supported by TeX user groups. Please join a user group or donate to one, see https://ctan.org/lugs