Accessing an Attr value (e.g., ` Attr().classes`) was broken; the more
common case of accessing it via an Inline or Block element was
unaffected by this.
This attribute was out-of-sync with the actual version as is mostly
irrelevant in the context Lua filters and custom writers. Use the
global `PANDOC_API_VERSION` instead.
*Pandoc*, *Meta*, and *Citation* were just plain functions and did not
set a metatable on the returned value, which made it difficult to amend
objects of these types with new behavior. They are now subtypes of
AstElement, meaning that all their objects can gain new features when a
method is added to the behavior object (e.g., `pandoc.Pandoc.behavior`).
Clearly distinguish between a type and the behavioral properties of an instance
of that type. The behavior of a type (and all its subtypes) can now be amended
by adding methods to that types `behavior` object, without exposing the type
objects internals.
E.g.:
pandoc.Inline.behavior.frob = function () print'42' end
local str = pandoc.Str'hello'
str.frob() -- outputs '42'
Extending all elements of a given type (e.g., all inline elements) was
difficult, as the table used to lookup unknown methods would be reset
every time a new element of that type was created, preventing recursive
property lookup. This is was changed in that all methods and attributes
of supertypes are now available to their subtypes.
The fields were named like the Haskell fields, not like the documented,
shorter version. The names are changed to match the documentation and
Citations are given a shared metatable to enable simple extensibility.
Fixes: #4222
The function `global_filter` was used internally to get the implicitly
defined global filter. It was of little value to end-users, but caused
unnecessary code duplication in pandoc. The function has hence been
dropped. Internally, the global filter is now received by interpreting
the global table as lua filter.
This is a Lua API change.
Each definition list item contains just a single key and the associated
value. Using `next` to get the key/value pair is more idiomatic than
iterating over the single-element table.
Instead of just "Hello, world", the document now contains
exemplars of most of the styles that have an effect on pandoc
documents.
This makes it easier to see the effect of style changes.
Closes#4175.
instead of relying on CSS. Closes#4162. HTML-based templates have had
the custom CSS for div.line-block removed. Those maintaining custom
templates will want to remove this too.
We still enclose line blocks in a div with class line-block.
The `pipe` and `read` utility functions are converted from hybrid
lua/haskell functions into full Haskell functions. This avoids the need
for intermediate `_pipe`/`_read` helper functions, which have dropped.
The file `init.lua` is used to initialize the Lua interpreter which is
used in Lua filters. This gives users the option to require libraries
which they want to use in all of their filters, and to extend default
modules.
The integration with Lua's package/module system is improved: A
pandoc-specific package searcher is prepended to the searchers in
`package.searchers`. The modules `pandoc` and `pandoc.mediabag` can now
be loaded via `require`.
This ensures that we don't use $..$ delimiters, which
gives bad results when $ is used as a currency sign.
This depends on the current dev version of reveal.js.
The `List` metatable is assigned to the tables which get passed to the
constructors `MetaBlocks`, `MetaInline`, and `MetaList`. This enables
the use of the resulting objects as lists. This is part of the changes
discussed in #4081.
Pandoc and Meta elements are now pushed by calling the respective
constructor functions of the pandoc Lua module. This makes serialization
consistent with the way blocks and inlines are pushed to lua and allows
to use List methods with the `blocks` value.
The List module is automatically loaded, but not assigned to a global
variable. It can be included in filters by calling `List = require
'List'`.
Lists of blocks, lists of inlines, and lists of classes are now given
`List` as a metatable, making working with them more convenient. E.g.,
it is now possible to concatenate lists of inlines using Lua's
concatenation operator `..` (requires at least one of the operants to
have `List` as a metatable):
function Emph (emph)
local s = {pandoc.Space(), pandoc.Str 'emphasized'}
return pandoc.Span(emph.content .. s)
end
Closes: #4081
Attribute lists are represented as associative lists in Lua. Pure
associative lists are awkward to work with. A metatable is attached to
attribute lists, allowing to access and use the associative list as if
the attributes were stored in as normal key-value pair in table.
Note that this changes the way `pairs` works on attribute lists. Instead
of producing integer keys and two-element tables, the resulting iterator
function now returns the key and value of those pairs. Use `ipairs` to
get the old behavior.
Warning: the new iteration mechanism only works if pandoc has been
compiled with Lua 5.2 or later (current default: 5.3).
The `pandoc.Attr` function is altered to allow passing attributes as
key-values in a normal table. This is more convenient than having to
construct the associative list which is used internally.
Closes#4071
* Move as much as possible to the CSS in the template.
* Ensure that all the HTML-based templates (including epub)
contain the CSS for columns.
* Columns default to 50% width unless they are given a width
attribute.
Closes#4028.
