jgm/pandoc 1.12.1

Pandoc 1.12.1

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This release fixes a few bugs (details in the release notes) and considerably improves citation handling. The new pandoc-citeproc (0.1.2.1) can read bibtex and biblatex files directly (not using bibutils to translate them, as before). Though this is still a work in progress, the results are already significantly better. LaTeX constructs in bibtex fields are translated properly, and simple math gets converted.

Three changes of note:

1. The default JSON serialization format has changed. Instead of {"Str": "foo"}, for example, we now have {"t": "Str", "c": "foo"} ("t" for tag, "c" for contents). This new format is easier to work with outside of Haskell. This change should only affect people who are interacting with pandoc's JSON using languages other than Haskell, since in Haskell the JSON conversions can be handled automatically by the aeson library. Those who use the python library pandocfilters for filters should upgrade to version 1.2, which has already been updated to use the new format.
2. Pandoc's data files no longer include the javascript, CSS, and images for S5, slidy, and slideous slide formats. If you wish to produce S5 or slideous slides with the --self-contained option, you'll need to download the appropriate code into the s5 or slideous directories, respectively, as with revealjs. (This is what the User's Guide has said to do for some time.) The default for slidy is to embed a link to the code on the slidy website, so nothing should change for slidy users who are using the default template.
3. You can now create "speaker notes" in slide formats, by putting them inside <div class="notes"> tags. (Note that you may need to leave a blank line before the closing </div> tag in some contexts.) Currently these are supported in beamer (where the notes go to \note{...}) and revealjs (where they turn into <aside class="notes">; in other formats the speaker notes are just ignored.

Added 2013-10-21: The OSX package installer that was originally attached to this release was defective. Please download the new installer below, pandoc-1.12.1-1.dmg.