jgm/pandoc 2.8.1

pandoc 2.8.1

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Add ascii_identifiers as a supported extension for markdown. This fixes a regression in 2.8.

Fix regression with behavior of --variable (#5962). Previously -Vfoo=1 -Vfoo=2 would produce a list value for foo; with 2.8 it produced just 2. This commit restores the earlier behavior.

Roll back part of of --shift-heading-level-by change (#5957). With positive heading shifts, starting in 2.8 this option caused metadata titles to be removed and changed to regular headings. This behavior is incompatible with the old behavior of --base-header-level and breaks old workflows, so we have rolled back the change. Note that there is now an asymmetry in positive and negative heading level shifts: With positive shifts, the metadata title stays the same and does not get changed to a heading in the body, while with negative shifts, a heading can be converted into the metadata title.

Text.Pandoc.Shared: Fix makeSections so it doesn’t turn column Divs into sections.

HTML writer: add task-list class to ul if all elements are task list items. This will allow styling unordered task lists in a way that omits the bullet.

HTML-based templates: Add CSS to suppress bullet on unordered task lists.

ConTeXt template: Fix \startcslreferences and use ConTeXt syntax conventions (#5945, Denis Maier). The old version had a too large a skip at the beginning of the reference list.

LaTeX template: keep the \author{} command even if author is not specified (#5961, Yihui Xie). Avoids a LaTeX warning.

Generate Emoji module with TH.

• Add Text.Pandoc.Emoji.TH.
• Replace long literal list in Text.Pandoc.Emoji with one-liner generating it from emoji.json using TH.
• Add Makefile target to download emoji.json.
• Remove tools/emoji.hs.

Increase GC allocation space for compilation in cabal.project.

Clean up manual on PDF generation backend options (#5940).

Update release checklist to include code signing step and update Windows release-candidate builds (#5950).