Kramdown 0.9.0 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 0.9.0 released

The biggest change in this release is the addition of a kramdown
converter. This converter together with the HTML parser enables one to
convert an HTML document into a kramdown document.

Apart from that there are many other small changes and bug fixes, a
full list of which you find below.

Changes

  • Major changes:

    • New kramdown converter that converts an element tree into a
      kramdown document

  • Minor changes:

    • Added option numeric_entities that defines whether entities are
      output using their names or their numeric values
    • Added option toc_depth for specifying how many header levels to
      include in the table of contents (patch by Alex Marandon)
    • Ruby 1.9 only: The HTML converter now always tries to convert
      entities to their character equivalences if possible
    • Change in HTML parser: conversion of pre and code elements to
      their native counterpart is only done if they contain no entities
      (under Ruby 1.9 entities are converted to characters before this
      check if possible)
    • The comment extension now produces comment elements that are used
      by the converters
    • IALs can now also be assigned to definitions (i.e. dd elements)
    • Image links may now be specified without alternative text
      (requested by Rune Myrland, fixes RF#28292)
    • The HTML parser gained the ability to convert conforming span and
      div elements to math elements
    • The LaTeX converter now outputs the element attributes as LaTeX
      comment for some elements (blockquotes, lists and math
      environments; requested by Michael Franzl)

  • Bug fixes:

    • Fixed problem with list item IALs: the IAL was not recognized when
      first element was a code block
    • Fixed ri documentation error on gem installation (patch by Alex
      Marandon)
    • Math content is now correctly escaped when using the HTML converter
    • Fixed html-to-native conversion of tables to only convert
      conforming tables

  • Deprecation notes:

    • The filter_html option has been removed.
    • The method Kramdown::Converter::Html#options_for_element has been
      renamed to html_attributes – using the old name is deprecated
      and the alias will be removed in the next release