1. Version 8.2.5 (2007-11-18)
Bug fixes
* Fixed exception thrown by illegal command-line arguments.
* Rolled back the with warning bug fix introduced in 8.2.4 -- it was
incompatible with Python <2.5.
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2. Version 8.2.4 (2007-11-10)
Additions and changes
* You can now use the lang attribute to set the DocBook language
attribute.
* Attribute values can now contain attribute references.
* If the lang attribute is defined then configuration files named
like lang-<lang>.conf will be loaded automatically.
* The help file name help-<lang>.conf is based on the AsciiDoc lang
attribute, defaults to help.conf (English).
* Admonition, figure and table captions have been factored into a
predefined set of caption_* attributes. They only apply to directly
generated (X)HTML outputs (DocBook stylesheets generate their own
language specific captions based on the lang attribute).
* Dropped platform dependent doc/asciidoc.chm file from distribution
documentation formats.
Bug fixes
* The spurious warning with will become a reserved keyword in Python
2.6 has been suppressed.
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3. Version 8.2.3 (2007-09-12)
Additions and changes
* Added VMiklos's permalink patch for auto-generated section IDs
(enabled by default by the sectids attribute).
* Added [1]FAQ to website.
* Changed format of {localdate} attribute to ISO 8601 (%Y-%m-%d).
* Added abc2ly --beams=None option to make music2png.py conform to
ABC's notion of beams.
* XHTML level 2 section headings are now styled with an underlining
border.
* XHTML links to AsciiDoc title elements are now implemented with
title ID attributes (previously separate <a> element targets were
generated.
* Multi-word first, middle and last names can be entered in the
header author line using the underscore as a word separator.
* The nested inline macros restriction has now been lifted, for
example you can now include links and inline images inside
footnotes.
* Help topic names can be shortened (so long as they are not
ambiguous). For example asciidoc -hm will print the AsciiDoc man
page.
* Added {two_colons} and {two_semicolons} attributes for escaping
labeled list ambiguity.
* If quirks mode is disabled the XHTML Mime Type is set to the
recommended application/xhtml+xml (rather than text/html).
Bug fixes
* Author information is now correctly set when using attribute
entries in the header instead of an author line (previously the
author attribute was not being calculated correctly and there were
attribute substitution problems).
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4. Version 8.2.2 (2007-07-22)
Additions and changes
* [2]LaTeXMathML capability has been added for users who are more
familiar with or prefer LaTeX math formulas to the [3]ASCIIMathML
notation (thanks to Arthur Sakellariou for the patch).
* The source highlight and code filters now process embedded
callouts.
* Added an --attribute=ATTRIBUTE option to a2x(1) for passing
attribute values to asciidoc(1) (a shortcut for --asciidoc-opts="-a
ATTRIBUTE").
* Image block and inline macros prepend optional {imagesdir}
attribute to image link targets.
Bug fixes
* Fixed an assertion error that occurred when a configuration file
containing an include::[] macro was loaded using the --conf-file
option and the configuration file name did not include an explicit
directory path -- patch submitted by Dmitry Potapov.
* Asciidoc titles are only converted to lower case if all characters
are upper case otherwise case is left unchanged -- patch submitted
by Dmitry Potapov.
* Added a missing check that input is not stdin before loading
configuration files from the document directory -- patch submitted
by Dmitry Potapov.
* Attribute list items must evaluate to strings, numbers or None
(previously it was possible to evaluate to other object types which
resulted in surprising attribute values).
* If an AsciiDoc document has no title an empty XHTML 1.1 title
element is created -- previously the title element was dropped
which resulted in invalid XHTML 1.1.
* The Vim syntax file no longer highlights escaped callouts.
* The Vim syntax highlighter now correctly highlights Double-dollar
passthroughs when they enclose dollar delimited ASCIIMathML and
LaTeXMathML formulas.
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5. Version 8.2.1 (2007-04-06)
Additions and changes
* A number of improvements have been made to the Vim syntax
highlighter, for example the word C++ is no longer mistaken for the
start of an unconstrained monospace quote.
* Labeled list definitions have been tightened -- a list label can no
longer containing trailing spaces. The following example is no
longer recognized as a valid list label:
Lorum ipsum ::
This change implements the originally intended behavior (as per the
AsciiDoc documentation and examples) so there should be very few
compatibility issues.
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6. Version 8.2.0 (2007-04-04)
Additions and changes
* A Vim syntax file is now included in the AsciiDoc distribution
(inspired by Felix Obenhuber's asciidoc.vim script). You can find
it (along with a Vim filetype detection script in the distribution
./vim/ directory (the scripts are installed automatically by the
AsciiDoc installer ./install.sh). See Appendix J of the AsciiDoc
User Guide for details.
* Added toclevel attribute (1..4) which sets the number of title
levels reported in the table of contents. Defaults to 2 and must be
used with the toc attribute. Example usage:
$ asciidoc -a toc -a toclevels=3 doc/asciidoc.txt
* Added a listindex attribute which is the current list item index
(1..). If this attribute appears outside a list its value is the
number of items in the most recently closed list.
* The single line titles syntax now accepts trailing suffixes -- this
syntax matches the title line syntax of a number of popular Wiki
markups.
* If a QuoteBlock has no attribution or citetitle then the DocBook
<attribution> element is not generated (previously generated empty
<attribution> element).
* If the text of a labeled list item is blank then no texttag is
written.
* An end of line backslash performs line continuation for horizontal
labeled list items.
* The Revision line now accommodates Subversion $Id markers (in
addition to CVS and RCS markers). Thanks to Tiago Sturmer Daitx for
this patch.
* Implemented a2x(1) option --skip-asciidoc which allows a2x(1) to
convert DocBook XML files not derived from AsciiDoc sources.
* If a2x(1) --doctype option is not specified it defaults to manpage
if --format=manpage else defaults to article (previously --doctype
always defaulted to article).
* Added an External Resources section to the [4]AsciiDoc home page.
Mention docbook and LaTeX in DESCRiption.
Add sourceforge to MASTER_SITES.
Add more directories to INSTALLATION_DIRS (maybe some are redundant).
Also install a2x.
Install man pages.
Install various configs and icons.
Add do-test target.
Following is from the AsciiDoc ChangeLog:
1. Version 8.1.0 (2006-10-22)
* AsciiDoc generated XHTML documents now display as table of
contents if the toc attribute is defined (JavaScript needs to be
enabled for this to work). Thanks to Troy Hanson who contributed
this feature based on a JavaScript by Mihai Bazon. I've simplified
things somewhat to match Docbook XSL Stylesheets style, see Troy's
[1]tpl User Guide for a fancier layout. Use the -a toc -a numbered
command-line options to produce a number table of contents.
* A [2]music filter is included in the distribution ./filters/
directory. It translates music in [3]LilyPond or [4]ABC notation
to standard classical notation in the form of a trimmed PNG image
which is inserted into the AsciiDoc output document.
* Incorporated Paul Melis's Win32 filter patch. This workaround
allows AsciiDoc to run filters under Windows.
* Added uninstall.sh script.
* Rather than proliferate a confusing number of filter block
delimiters the following convention has been adopted: delimiters
belonging to DelimitedBlock filters distributed with AsciiDoc will
consist of a word (normally a noun identifying the block content)
followed by four or more tilde characters. This has necessitated
changing existing filter delimiters (the old delimiters still work
but may be deprecated in future versions):
+ The example code filter block delimiter is now the word code
followed by four or more tilde characters.
+ The source highlight filter block delimiter is now the word
source followed by four or more tilde characters.
* Conditionally redefined subscript and superscripting so they use
the old replacements mechanism when asciidoc7compatible is defined
rather than the asciidoc 8 default unconstrained quoting (patch
for affected files attached).
* Moved the source highlight filter from ./examples/ to ./filter/.
* Added {verbose} intrinsic attribute (useful for passing verbose
flag to filters).
* Added {outdir} intrinsic attribute.
* Renamed {docdir} intrinsic attribute to unambiguous`{indir}
({docdir}` still works but may be removed in future release).
* If asciidoc(1) outputs to stdout then instrinsic attribute
{docname} is extracted from the input file name.
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2. Version 8.0.0 (2006-08-27)
This is a major release because changes to quoting and index entry
handling may break existing documents (see Additions and changes below
and Appendix A: Migration Notes in the AsciiDoc User Guide).
Please report any problems you encounter.
[5]Stuart Rackham
Additions and changes
* Quoting can can occur within words (based on patch submitted by
Benjamin Klum). See the Unconstrained Quotes sub-section in the
User Guide.
* The underline and plus characters can be used as alternatives to
the existing apostrophe and backtick quote characters. They are
arguably better choices than the apostrophe and backtick as they
are not confused with punctuation.
* The syntax for index entry macros have have been deprecated from
+...+ and +...+ to ((...)) and (((...))) respectively. Rationale:
+ Bracketing is consistent other with [[...]] and <<...>>
reference macros.
+ To easily confused with triple plus passthroughs.
+ To make way for the new monospace quoting.
* Superscripts and subscripts are implemented as constrained quotes
so they can now be escaped with a leading backslash and prefixed
with with an attribute list.
* An experimental LaTeX backend has been written by Benjamin Klum (a
number additions in this release are to accommodate the LaTeX
backend).
* include macro file names now expand environment variables and
tilde expansions.
* A configuration file [quotes] entry can be undefined by setting to
a blank value.
* Added callto inline macro for Skype callto links.
* Added colnumber attribute for table data markup.
* A leading comment block or comment lines are now skipped
(previously a document had to start with either attribute entries
or a document Title).
* Experimental rows attribute (number of source lines in table)
available in table markup templates (used by experimental LaTeX
backend).
* Included install shell script written by [6]Jacob Mandelson for
installing the tarball distribution.
* Added INSTALL documentation file.
* Added replacements2 substitution options -- a second replacements
section.
* Added the ability to redefine normal and verbatim substitutions
with subsnormal and subsverbatim entries in configuration file
[miscellaneous] section.
* By default AttributeEntry values are substituted for
specialcharacters and attributes, if you want a different
AttributeEntry substitution set the attributeentry-subs attribute.
* The name in name=value configuration file entries can now end with
a backslash, just escape the trailing backslash with a backslash.
For example:
abc\\=xyz
Results in name=abc\ and value=xyz -- previously this would have
escaped the = character.
* A blank configuration file section deletes any preceding section
with the same name (applies to non-markup template sections).
* A command-line attribute value with a @ suffix does not override
existing document and configuration file attributes (normally
command-line attributes have precedence over document and
configuration file attributes).
* localtime attribute is now encoded from the native system encoding
to the output encoding. Patch submitted by [7]FKtPp -- here's his
description of the problem:
"I am a Chinese user of AsciiDoc and I find that when I use UTF-8
(the default encoding) to write asciidoc documents in Windows
platform the resulting html footer line will get screwed. It was
caused by a localized tzname that was always encoded in the
windows native encoding, which in my case is cp936."
* a2x(1) can generate Open Document Text files using [8]docbook2odf.
Currently docbook2odf(1) only processes a subset of DocBook,
unimplemented elements are skipped.
* The a2x(1) format option defaults to xhtml (previously a format
had to be specified explicitly).
* The -d, --doctype=DOCTYPE option has been added to a2x(1) which is
a shortcut for --asciidoc-options="--doctype=DOCTYPE".
* Replaced a2x(1) --no-icons and --no-copy options with their
negated equivalents: --icons and --copy respectively. The default
behavior has also changed: copying and use of icons is disabled by
default. Rationale:
+ To make the default behavior more consistent since use of
icons and CSS stylesheets does not apply to all formats.
+ To make the default behavior less surprising (the creation of
icon and stylesheet output files must now be explicit).
* a2x(1) has been bumped from version 0.1.1 to version 1.0.0.
Bug fixes
* Removed duplicate ./doc/a2x.1.txt from distribution tarball.
* Documentation errata.
* Attribute replacement is no longer performed twice in Titles and
AttributeEntrys.
* a2x(1) skipped asciidoc(1) execution when rerun with different
--asciidoc-options options, it now always executes asciidoc(1).
The problem was that previously asciidoc(1) was executed only if
the output file was missing or older than the source file.
wiz
gdt
reed
rillig