Lists of Inline and Block elements can now be filtered via `Inlines` and
`Blocks` functions, respectively. This is helpful if a filter conversion
depends on the order of elements rather than a single element.
For example, the following filter can be used to remove all spaces
before a citation:
function isSpaceBeforeCite (spc, cite)
return spc and spc.t == 'Space'
and cite and cite.t == 'Cite'
end
function Inlines (inlines)
for i = #inlines-1,1,-1 do
if isSpaceBeforeCite(inlines[i], inlines[i+1]) then
inlines:remove(i)
end
end
return inlines
end
Closes: #6038
This follows the advise on the Lua
website (https://www.lua.org/about.html#name):
> […] "Lua" is a name, the name of the Earth's moon and the name of the
> language. Like most names, it should be written in lower case with an
> initial capital, that is, "Lua".
The functions `table.insert`, `table.remove`, and `table.sort` are added
to pandoc.List elements. They can be used as methods, e.g.
local numbers = pandoc.List {2, 3, 1}
numbers:sort() -- numbers is now {1, 2, 3}
Links and anchors now follow consistent conventions, like lowercase-only
anchor names.
This breaks some links to specific sections in the document, but will
make it much easier to link documentation in the future.
Metadata defaults can be given via the command line `--metadata-file`.
Adding raw format snippets is a common use case for Lua filters, so it
seems sensible to provide an example.
Thanks to @efx for proposing this filter.
Closes: pandoc/lua-filters#70
Attr values can now be given as normal Lua tables; this can be used as a
convenient alternative to define Attr values, instead of constructing
values with `pandoc.Attr`. Identifiers are taken from the *id* field,
classes must be given as space separated words in the *class* field. All
remaining fields are included as misc attributes.
With this change, the following lines now create equal elements:
pandoc.Span('test', {id = 'test', class = 'a b', check = 1})
pandoc.Span('test', pandoc.Attr('test', {'a','b'}, {check = 1}))
This also works when using the *attr* setter:
local span = pandoc.Span 'text'
span.attr = {id = 'test', class = 'a b', check = 1}
Furthermore, the *attributes* field of AST elements can now be a plain
key-value table even when using the `attributes` accessor:
local span = pandoc.Span 'test'
span.attributes = {check = 1} -- works as expected now
Closes: #5744
Text.Pandoc.Shared:
+ Remove `Element` type [API change]
+ Remove `makeHierarchicalize` [API change]
+ Add `makeSections` [API change]
+ Export `deLink` [API change]
Now that we have Divs, we can use them to represent the structure
of sections, and we don't need a special Element type.
`makeSections` reorganizes a block list, adding Divs with
class `section` around sections, and adding numbering
if needed.
This change also fixes some longstanding issues recognizing
section structure when the document contains Divs.
Closes#3057, see also #997.
All writers have been changed to use `makeSections`.
Note that in the process we have reverted the change
c1d058aeb1
made in response to #5168, which I'm not completely
sure was a good idea.
Lua modules have also been adjusted accordingly.
Existing lua filters that use `hierarchicalize` will
need to be rewritten to use `make_sections`.
A new function `pandoc.mediabag.items` was added to Lua module
pandoc.mediabag. This allows users to lazily iterate over all media bag
items, loading items into Lua one-by-one. Example:
for filename, mime_type, content in pandoc.mediabag.items() do
-- use media bag item.
end
This is a convenient alternative to using `mediabag.list` in combination
with `mediabag.lookup`.
Version specifiers like `PANDOC_VERSION` and `PANDOC_API_VERSION` are
turned into `Version` objects. The objects simplify version-appropriate
comparisons while maintaining backward-compatibility.
A function `pandoc.types.Version` is added as part of the newly
introduced module `pandoc.types`, allowing users to create version
objects in scripts.
The `system` Lua module provides utility functions to interact with the
operating- and file system. E.g.
print(pandoc.system.get_current_directory())
or
pandoc.system.with_temporary_directory('tikz', function (dir)
-- write and compile a TikZ file with pdflatex
end)
Fix broken links in doc/epub.md, doc/getting-started.md,
doc/customizing-pandoc.md, doc/using-the-pandoc-api.md.
Also, use absolute links to pandoc.org when possible, so that
the links can be followed by people viewing these documents
on GitHub.
There are three changes:
- It only processes elements which begin with \begin{tikzpicture}
- It uses pdf2svg instead of imagemagick to preserve fidelity
- The images produced have transparent backgrounds
The file `init.lua` in pandoc's data directory is run as part of
pandoc's Lua initialization process. Previously, the `pandoc` module was
loaded in `init.lua`, and the structure for marshaling was set-up after.
This allowed simple patching of element marshaling, but made using
`init.lua` more difficult:
- it encouraged mixing essential initialization with user-defined
customization;
- upstream changes to init.lua had to be merged manually;
- accidentally breaking marshaling by removing required modules was
possible;
Instead, all required modules are now loaded before calling `init.lua`.
The file can be used entirely for user customization. Patching
marshaling functions, while discouraged, is still possible via the
`debug` module.
All Lua modules bundled with pandoc, i.e., `pandoc.List`,
`pandoc.mediabag`, `pandoc.utils`, and `text` are re-exported from the
`pandoc` module. They are assigned to the fields `List`, `mediabag`,
`utils`, and `text`, respectively.
Equality of Lua objects representing pandoc AST elements is tested by
unmarshalling the objects and comparing the result in Haskell. A new
function `equals` which performs this test has been added to the
`pandoc.utils` module.
Closes: #5092
* Lua: allow access to pandoc state
Lua filters and custom writers now have read-only access to most fields
of pandoc's internal state via the global variable `PANDOC_STATE`.
* Lua: allow iterating through fields of PANDOC_STATE
* Lua filters doc: describe CommonState
* Lua filters doc: mention global variable PANDOC_STATE
* Lua: add access to logs
Log messages can currently only be printed, but not decomposed.
Exposes a function converting which flattenes a list of blocks into a
list of inlines. An example use case would be the conversion of Note
elements into other inlines.
All "helper functions" are not part of the Lua code for module pandoc,
but are added in Haskell. The respective documentation section must
therefore be excluded from automatic regeneration.
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.
These docs are dropped, as the functions are no longer part of
data/pandoc.lua, from which this section is generated. This is only a
temporary fix: a proper fix will have to re-think how this section is
updated.
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.
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.
