The Attr argument is made optional for all pandoc element constructors
which take such a parameter. The attr param is always the last argument
of the constructor functions, so the option to omit them makes it easier
to construct new pandoc elements by hand.
The implicitly defined global filter (i.e. all element filtering
functions defined in the global lua environment) is used if no filter is
returned from a lua script. This allows to just write top-level
functions in order to define a lua filter. E.g
function Emph(elem) return pandoc.Strong(elem.content) end
Attributes was written to behave much like a normal table, in order to
simplify working with it. However, all Attr containing elements were
changed to provide panflute-like accessors to Attr components, rendering
the previous approach unnecessary.
A single `read` function parsing pandoc-supported formats is added to
the module. This is simpler and more convenient than the previous method
of exposing all reader functions individually.
Meta elements that are treated as lua tables (i.e. MetaList,
MetaInlines, MetaBlocks, and MetaMap), are no longer wrapped in an
additional table but simply marked via a metatable. This allows
treating those meta values just like normal tables, while still making
empty elements of those values distinguishable.
Element attributes are pushed to the stack via the `Attributes`
function. `Attributes` creates an Attr like triple, but the triple also
allows table-like access to key-value pairs.
Provide functions `pandoc.SingleQuoted`, `pandoc.DoubleQuoted`,
`pandoc.DisplayMath`, and `pandoc.InlineMath` to allow simple building
of Math and Quoted elements.
Lua string are used to represent nullary data constructors. The previous
table-based representation was based on the JSON serialization, but can
be simplified. This also matches the way those arguments are passed to
custom writers.
Instead of taking only a single argument containing the pre-packed
element contents, `Inline` constructors now take the same arguments as
the respective filter and `Custom` writer function
* Add `--lua-filter` option. This works like `--filter` but takes pathnames of special lua filters and uses the lua interpreter baked into pandoc, so that no external interpreter is needed. Note that lua filters are all applied after regular filters, regardless of their position on the command line.
* Add Text.Pandoc.Lua, exporting `runLuaFilter`. Add `pandoc.lua` to data files.
* Add private module Text.Pandoc.Lua.PandocModule to supply the default lua module.
* Add Tests.Lua to tests.
* Add data/pandoc.lua, the lua module pandoc imports when processing its lua filters.
* Document in MANUAL.txt.
