Re: [Docutils-users] docutils release 0.16

[David G. <go...@py...>]

Thank you for the release!

David Goodger
<https://david.goodger.org>


On Sun, Jan 12, 2020 at 9:25 AM engelbert gruber <eng...@gm...>
wrote:

> Release 0.16 is out on pypi
>
> .. Note::
>
>    Docutils 0.15.x is the last version supporting Python 2.6, 3.3 and 3.4.
>
>    Docutils 0.16.x supports Python 2.7 and Python >= 3.5 natively,
>    without the use of the ``2to3`` tool.
>
> * reStructuredText:
>
>   - Keep `backslash escapes`__ in the document tree. This allows, e.g.,
>     escaping of author-separators in `bibliographic fields`__.
>
>   __
> http://docutils.sourceforge.net/docs/ref/rst/restructuredtext.html#escaping-mechanism
>   __ docs/ref/rst/restructuredtext.html#bibliographic-fields
>
> * LaTeX writer:
>
>   - Informal titles of type "rubric" default to bold-italic and left
> aligned.
>   - Deprecate ``\docutilsrole`` prefix for styling commands:
>     use ``\DUrole`` instead.
>   - Fix topic subtitle.
>   - Add "latex writers" to the `config_section_dependencies`.
>   - Ignore classes for `rubric` elements
>     (class wrapper interferes with LaTeX formatting).
>
> * tools/buildhtml.py
>
>   - New option "--html-writer" allows to select "html__" (default),
>     "html4" or "html5".
>
>   __ html: docs/user/html.html#html
>
> * docutils/io.py
>
>   - Remove the `handle_io_errors` option from io.FileInput/Output.
>
> * docutils/nodes.py
>
>   - If `auto_id_prefix`_ ends with "%", this is replaced with the tag name.
>
>   .. _auto_id_prefix: docs/user/config.html#auto-id-prefix
>
> * Various bugfixes and improvements (see HISTORY_).
>
>
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