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New features

• We can now have multiple columns be a part of the stub by using the enhanced rowname_col argument in gt(); it can take a vector of one or more column names (#601, [#918], [#1406], [#1408]). (#2008)

• data_color() now allows for specification which light/dark colors to use when autocolor_text = TRUE. (@xx02al, [#1930])

• Added the latex() helper function to allow the insertion of raw LaTeX strings. (@thebioengineer, [#1912])

• You can now use several cols_*() functions with gt_group objects (#2005, [#2012]). (@shannonhaughton, [#2010], [#2013])

Minor improvements and bug fixes

• Improvements to options for LaTeX including repeating headers, removal of top and bottom lines, font sizes, and line breaks (#1630, [#1061], [#1767], [#1912]). (@thebioengineer, [#1995])

• Added support for some Unicode characters when writing tables as LaTeX. (@thebioengineer, [#1996])

• as_word() now handles "<br>" line breaks for md() and html(), and no longer automatically adds "Table N" ahead of the caption (#1966). (@thebioengineer, [#1983])

• Corrected text processing in instances where md() is used with tab_footnote() for Word output tables (#1892, [#1983]). (@olivroy, [#1892])

• Fixed an issue where grand summary rows would not work properly with Word output tables (#2000). (@olivroy, [#2007])

• Fixed an encoding issue with Word output tables when using the sub_small_vals() and sub_large_vals() functions (#1997). (@olivroy, [#2014])

• Stub alignment values for RTF output tables are now honored (#2019). (@shannonhaughton, [#2021])

• Added support for use of fmt_image() with RTF output tables (#2029). (@shannonhaughton, [#2030])

• HTML output tables no longer have multiple instances of <tfoot> tags (#1296). (#2025)

• Fixed a length recycling issue when using gt with Quarto (#1985). (@olivroy, [#1986])

• The metro and films datasets have been updated. (#2026, [#2027])