Kramdown 0.5.0 released

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About kramdown

kramdown (sic, not Kramdown or KramDown, just kramdown) is a free
GPL-licensed Ruby 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 0.5.0 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][1]).

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: