CTAN update: markdown

[CTAN Announcements]

Vít Novotný submitted an update to the

                markdown

package.

Version number: 2.3.0
License type: lppl1.3

Summary description: A package for converting and rendering markdown
documents inside TeX

Announcement text:
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Fixes:
- ConTeXt module no longer mishandles active characters from
`\enableregime`.
- Shell access is no longer necessary with ConTeXt MarkIV.
- The default renderers now render strong emphasis using a bold font
face rather than a bold-italic font face.
- Lazy blockquotes are now parsed properly.

New features:
- Added optional HTML support; when the support is enabled, the
Markdown reader will recognize HTML elements, entities, instructions,
and comments in the input.
- Added optional breakable blockquotes support; when the support is
enabled, blockquotes can be split apart using blank lines.

Documentation:
- Documented the behavior of the `-output-directory` TeX option.

Development:
- Removed unnecessary PEG patterns.
- PEG patterns are now hash table entries rather than local variables;
this was a necessary step due to the local variable number limit. This
change was also backported to and merged by the upstream project.
- The unit test templates now use M4 instead of ad-hoc sed string
replacement.
- The Lua text buffering routine was removed as it only introduced
complexity to the package with no tangible benefits. All text buffering
is now done in TeX. As a corrolary, the
`\markdownLuaRegisterIBCallback` and `\markdownLuaUnregisterIBCallback`
macros have been deprecated.
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This package is located at 
   http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/generic/markdown

More information is at
   http://www.ctan.org/pkg/markdown


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   Thanks for the upload.

     For the CTAN Team
    Manfred Lotz



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