This release marks another important step forward. It adds features for print publishing, theme enhancements, bug fixes, better table compliance, documentation, and component upgrades.
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- Add support for mirror (recto/verso) margins and facing pages when media=prepress (#383)
- Add non-breaking hyphen glyph to built-in fonts so its intended behavior is honored (#462)
- Add page break before a book part (#329)
- Allow running (header/footer) content to be arranged in columns (#449)
- Allow font properties to be set per element in running content (#454)
- Prevent the SVG from modifying the document font (#494)
- Implement decorative border for multipage quote and verse blocks (#270, #557, #558)
- Encode anchors in hex that contain characters outside of ASCII range (#481, #301)
- Size the line number gutter correctly (accounting for width of largest line number) (#402)
- Allow theme to specify default value for pdfwidth attribute on image and document in README (#455)
- Fix front matter page numbering by adding page labels for all front matter pages in outline (#458)
- Allow image type to be specified explicitly using format attribute on image macro (#540)
- Add support for literal and verse table cell styles
- Preserve indentation in literal and verse table cells
- Preserve paragraph breaks in normal table cells
- Honor value of width attribute even when autowidth option is set on table (#519)
- Align table title to left edge of table, regardless of table alignment (#469)
- Add support for reversed option on ordered list (#491)
- Don't drop whitespace in front of conum on final line of source block (#470)
- Add more control over position of elements on title page, including support for vw units (#418)
- Allow table caption position/side to be controlled by theme (#531)
- Use base_align setting from theme as default alignment for headings
- Resolve bare image-related attribute values relative to base_dir
- Only allow Prawn SVG to fetch remote images if the allow-uri-read attribute is set (#548)
- Introduce page_margin_inner and page_margin_outer keys to theme
- Start title page, toc, main content, parts, and chapters on recto page when media=prepress and doctype=book
- Allow default font style for table to be set via theme (table_font_style)
- Use correct default bullet per nested unordered list level (#529)
- Call start_new_part at start of each book part
- Delegate to layout_part_title method to layout part title
- Don't match a special section as a chapter unless the doctype is book
- Fix list marker placement when list item touches bottom of page
- Eliminate excessive spacing between list items that contain nested lists
- Drop lines in running (header/footer) content with unresolved attributes (#522)
- Ensure start_new_chapter is always executed at a chapter transition (#524)
- Add support for root xref (e.g.,
<<included-doc>>) (#521) - Prevent block from spilling to next page if there's no more content (#361)
- Add support for px units to pdf-page-size attribute
- Fix parsing error when value of pdf-page-size attribute is unitless
- Don't crash if table is empty (#480)
- Don't crash when deleting last remaining page; don't delete last page if empty (#317)
- Don't orphan space between conums when extracting from verbatim block (#506)
- Properly scope attr and attr? lookups
- Rename internal page_start and page_end attributes to pdf-page-start and pdf-page-end, respectively
- Fix settings for table header cell
- Fix padding around content of quote block in default theme
- Read theme file with UTF-8 encoding (#533)
- Allow temporary image file to be deleted on Windows (#425)
- Don't crash if theme file is empty (#551)
- Don't crash if cover image can't be read; warn instead
- Clarify in theming guide how to write numbers with 3 or more digits (#555)
- Document how inline images are sized
- Document how to disable default footer from theme
- Update explanation of WINANSI encoding behavior in theming guide
- Restore support for Ruby 1.9.3 (#528)
- Upgrade prawn-icon to 1.2.0 (which upgrades Font Awesome to 4.6.3)
- Upgrade prawn-svg to 0.25.2 (by way of more lenient version range)
- Fix Ruby warnings
- Document in README how image paths are resolved
- Configure README for better preview on GitHub
- Update chronicles example to modern AsciiDoc syntax; update content
Release meta
Released on: 2016-09-19
Released by: @mojavelinux
Logs: resolved issues | full diff
Credits
A big shout out to @meisterluk for doing excellent QA and providing several patches. And another to @Fale for packaging Asciidoctor PDF for Fedora! Also thanks to @vogella for helping to identify important areas of improvement. And thanks to @mraible and InfoQ for collecting requirements for print publishing. Finally, thanks to everyone else who submitted invaluable bug reports that led to the improvements in this release.
A very special thanks to all the awesome supporters of the Asciidoctor Salt campaign who provided critical funding for the development of this release as well as ongoing development of the project.