CTAN update: markdown

CTAN Announcements ctan-ann at ctan.org
Tue Sep 15 20:14:59 CEST 2020


Vít Novotný submitted an update to the

                markdown

package.

Version number: 2.9.0 2020-09-14
License type: lppl1.3

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

Announcement text:
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Development:
- Add support for finalizing and freezing the cache.

Fixes:
- Fix default definition of `markdownRendererAmpersandPrototype`.
- Remove redundant `\label` in contentBlocks LaTeX renderer prototype.
- Make LaTeX and ConTeXt implementations also expand `\markdownEnd`.
- Fortify I/O in Lua with additional asserts.

Documentation:
- Fix links in the documentation.
- Fix typos in the documentation.
- Remove deprecated `filecontents` package.
- Do not use package `xcolor`.
- Add blank lines to `README.md`.
- Add Citing Markdown section to `README.md`.
- Add banner to `README.md`.
- Cite new CSTUG Bulletin article.

Continuous integration:
- Use TeX Live 2020.

Miscellanea:
- Update distribution packaging according to CTAN requirements.

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This package is located at 
   http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/generic/markdown

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


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   Thanks for the upload.

     For the CTAN Team
    Manfred Lotz


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