• Clarified the location of the pandoc templates directory in the readme.
• Added missing $endif$ that caused a compilation failure (#125, 0az).
• Merged changes from the pandoc default LaTeX template.
• Fixed a bug where specifying a font via mainfont when using pdfLaTeX would not apply the default font Source Sans Pro.
• Improve formatting of footnotes with the variables footnotes-pretty and footnotes-disable-backlinks (#107, salim-b).
• Added the variable code-block-font-size to change the font size for code blocks via the supplied LaTeX command (#123, #17).
• Improve Japanese dummy text (#86, JKPOKE)
• Added an example on how to change header and footer (#109).
• Added example backgrounds to the titlepage example.
• Added support for background images on the title page with the variable titlepage-background (#31, #41).
• Disabled striped tables per default. Enable them with the variable table-use-row-colors: true (#29).
• Updated listings definition for Java which is the default language when using listings. This means that more keywords such as var from Java 10 are highlighted.
• Added support for additional keyword colors when using listings for syntax highlighting. The support depends on the used language. Some languages like motorola68k, x86masm, inform, llvm, lua, metapost, mupad, ocl, python, verrilog, basic, cil, fortran and hansl will have additional colors for some keywords.
• Fixed: Long lines in code blocks (verbatim environment) wrap automatically (#2).