Change Log

AsciiDoc ChangeLog
==================
:website: http://asciidoc.org/
Version 8.6.9 (2013-11-09)

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.Additions and changes
- 'html5', 'xhtml11' and 'slidy' outputs now wrap 'pre' element
contents at right margin (see
https://groups.google.com/group/asciidoc/browse_thread/thread/9877a316b7a47309).
- Vim syntax file: highlight line breaks in lists (patch submitted by
Alex Efros). See
https://groups.google.com/group/asciidoc/browse_thread/thread/5145e4c0b65cde0a).
- Vim syntax file: fixed highlighting of lines with spaces preceding
an indented paragraph. See
https://groups.google.com/group/asciidoc/browse_thread/thread/5145e4c0b65cde0a
- Vim syntax file: dropped ')' from list of illegal characters
following opening quote. See
https://groups.google.com/group/asciidoc/browse_thread/thread/1a60eb4507a0555f/264c
39c6a89fc7a0
- Added {plus} intrinsic attribute. See
http://code.google.com/p/asciidoc/issues/detail?id=14
- Allow `tabsize=0 in` configuration file. See
https://groups.google.com/group/asciidoc/browse_thread/thread/c88457020288ce1d
- Removed 'wordpress' backend into the blogpost project (where it
belongs) as an AsciiDoc backend plugin.
- Added HTML5 footer badges.
- Added favicon to AsciiDoc website.
- Changed AsciiDoc website domain to 'asciidoc.org'.
- Vim syntax file: closing quote character cannot be immediately
followed by same closing quote character.
- Documentation updates.
- If admonition icons are embedded using the Data URI Scheme and the
icons directory is undefined or does not exist then the 'iconsdir'
attribute is set to the location of the icons installed in the
AsciiDoc configuration directory.
- Updated `./stylesheets/pygments.css` from pygments 1.4.
- HTML backends: Align inline images to text-bottom.
- html4 backend: Added 'hr' attribute to make the inter-section
horizontal ruler element optional.
- Documented 'Callout lists cannot be used within tables'. See:
https://groups.google.com/group/asciidoc/browse_thread/thread/268f9b46ebc192d3
- Removed Vim related stuff from the installer makefile. See:
https://groups.google.com/group/asciidoc/browse_thread/thread/753a52b2af85fcfc/04c9
091b0856fc13
and
https://groups.google.com/group/asciidoc/browse_thread/thread/cd07629fa7a53fb3
- Dropped `vim/ftdetect/asciidoc_filetype.vim` from distribution, the
file detection was broken and the default settings satisfied noone.
- Vim syntax highlighter: increase sync backtracking to catch changes
to large block elements.
- Added Romanian language configuration file. Contributed by Vitalie
Lazu. See
https://groups.google.com/group/asciidoc/browse_thread/thread/2fe14a10dbf20d20/2772
6e7e13f7bfc7?lnk=gst&q=romanian#27726e7e13f7bfc7
- Added ruler and line-break outputs to HTML Help outputs. Patch
submitted by DonM. See
https://groups.google.com/group/asciidoc/browse_thread/thread/b131d0155eccd73e
- Added Czech language configuration file. Contributed by Petr Klma.
- html4 backend: allow embedded images and icons (data-uri
attribute).
- html4 backend: table and example block caption place at bottom for
consistency.
- html4 backend: dropped border around example block.
- html4 backend: cellpaddings made equal to 4 for consistency.
- Vim syntax highligher: Highlight closing OpenBlock delimiter when it
immediately follows a list.
- Updated html5 backend (previous commit was xhtml11 only). See:
https://groups.google.com/group/asciidoc/browse_thread/thread/dbdfaf838f93e020
- Embedded data-uri images now figure file mimetype from file contents
rather than the file extension. Patch submitted by Lex Trotman. See:
https://groups.google.com/group/asciidoc/browse_thread/thread/dbdfaf838f93e020
.Bug fixes
- ìndexterm2:[]` macro syntax now recognized. See
https://groups.google.com/group/asciidoc/browse_thread/thread/1b3f1a0f0a21425e
- Synthesised `*-option` attributes for options set in table conf file
style entries. See
https://groups.google.com/group/asciidoc/browse_thread/thread/8aa340a3069ef5f1/a727
a8a564eea76c
- Makefile: Fixed sh compatibility issue. See
https://groups.google.com/group/asciidoc/browse_thread/thread/753a52b2af85fcfc/04c9
091b0856fc13
Version 8.6.8 (2012-07-17)

--------------------------
.Release highlights
Added full complement of styles to 'Open Blocks' and 'Normal
Paragraphs' -- those with a minimalist bent could construct virtually
any document using just Title, Normal Paragraph and Open Block
syntaxes.
.Other additions and changes

- Increased default maximum include depth from 5 to 10.
- Emit warning if maximum include depth is exceeded.
- Suppress repeated console messages.
- Music filter: removed '--beams=None' option from abc2ly invocation
because it is broken on LilyPond 2.14 (Ubuntu 12.04).
- Replaced obsolete '<tt>' tag with '<code>' in HTML backends.
- Allow configuration attribute entries to create a new section
(previously you could only modify existing sections). See:
https://groups.google.com/group/asciidoc/browse_thread/thread/7be28e9714f249c7[disc
ussion
list].
- Documented `{wj}` (word-joiner) attribute and updated FAQ. See:
https://groups.google.com/group/asciidoc/browse_thread/thread/961a957ab5872ebf[disc
ussion
list].
- FAQ: Added 'How can I place a footnote immediately following quoted
text?' See
https://groups.google.com/group/asciidoc/browse_thread/thread/961a957ab5872ebf[disc
ussion
list].
- Added Greek language configuration file. Contributed by Michael
Dourmousoglou. See
https://groups.google.com/group/asciidoc/browse_thread/thread/9e79d8494ef8d870[disc
ussion
list].
- FAQ: Added 'Using roles to select fonts for PDF'. Submitted by Lex
Trotman and based on solution by Antonio Borneo. See:
https://groups.google.com/group/asciidoc/browse_frm/thread/64b071bb21de9cf0[discuss
ion
list].
- Apply same monospaced font size to all monospaced text.
- Changed '0' number padding to spaces in numbered GNU
source-highlight outputs.
- Allow 'highlight' source highlighter to use 'python' for Python
`{language}` name. r1142: Update the AsciiDoc 'source' filter to
allow the use of the 'highlight' source code highlighter. See
https://groups.google.com/group/asciidoc/browse_frm/thread/e045c9986c71d72a[discuss
ion
list].
+
NOTE: The 'pygments' attribute has been deprecated in favor of the new
'source-highlighter' attribute.
- Vim syntax highlighter: Don't confuse trailing open block delimiter

with section underline.
- Added 'skip' option to paragraphs (c.f. Delimited Block 'skip'
option).
.Bug fixes
- *FIXED*: latex, music and graphviz filters: When the filter output
image is data-uri encoded write it to the indir (instead of the
outdir) so that encoder can find it. See
https://groups.google.com/group/asciidoc/browse_thread/thread/f5174f450a61f14b[disc
ussion
list].
- *FIXED*: Escape the ']' character inside inline macros. See
https://groups.google.com/group/asciidoc/browse_thread/thread/db3b734a6931cb74[disc
ussion
list].
- *FIXED*: source highlighter filter: Pass 'role' attribute to HTML
backends.
- *FIXED*: source highlight filter: docbook backend: 'role' attribute
was not passed to listings without a title. Patch submitted by Lex
Trotman. See
https://groups.google.com/group/asciidoc/browse_thread/thread/13c9ee97930342b3[disc
ussion
list].
- *FIXED*: music2png.py: 'FOPException: Raster ByteInterleavedRaster'
error (FOP 1.0, ImageMagick 6.6.9-7).
Version 8.6.7 (2012-03-17)

--------------------------
.Release highlights
No major enhancements but quite a few bug fixes which, among other
things, fixes Jython compatibility and improves Windows compatibility.
.All additions and changes

- Vim syntax highlighter: highlight entity refs in macro arguments.
- Added files with `.asciidoc` extension to Vim file type detection.
http://groups.google.com/group/asciidoc/browse_thread/thread/a9762e21ec0cc244/5d3a4
ebf20e6847e[Patch]
submitted by Dag Wiers.
- Added 'replacement3' substitution to enable
http://groups.google.com/group/asciidoc/browse_thread/thread/843d7d3d671006fb/25628
e14c829db3f[ODT
whitespace processing].
- Added 'unbreakable' option to XHTML and HTML 5 backends.
- Implemented toc::[] block macro and 'toc-placement' attribute for
HTML backends to allow the Table of Contents placement to be set
manually by the author.
- Added FAQs: 'How can I control page breaks when printing HTML
outputs?' and 'Is it possible to reposition the Table of Contents
in HTML outputs?'.
- Added `--backend` and `--backend-opts` options to the 'a2x' command
to allow 'a2x' to use backend plugin code extensions.
http://groups.google.com/group/asciidoc/browse_thread/thread/b8e93740b7cd0e1d/b5e0b
83fe37ae31a[Patch]
submitted by Lex Trotman.
- Added
http://groups.google.com/group/asciidoc/browse_thread/thread/3d06b0105dfbb780/8c60e
b7a62f522e4[args
block attribute] to source highlight blocks to allow arbitrary
parameters to be passed to the source highlighters.
- If the 'ascii-ids' attribute is defined then non-ascii characters in
auto-generated IDs
http://groups.google.com/group/asciidoc/browse_thread/thread/33e99b78e2472122[are
replaced] by their nearest ascii equivalents (to work around DocBook
processor limitations).
- Added global 'blockname' attribute which is dynamically updated to
identify the current block. See
http://groups.google.com/group/asciidoc/browse_thread/thread/8200e29815c40f72[discu
ssion
list].
- 'xhtml11', 'html5' backends: Include book part TOC entries for
multi-part books. Patch submitted by Loc Paillotin.
- Removed code filter example from the AsciiDoc User Guide so that
backends implemented as external plugins can compile the manual. See
http://groups.google.com/group/asciidoc/browse_thread/thread/849e5ea91f43adf2[discu
ssion
list].
- If the delimited block 'skip' option is set then do not consume
block title and attributes. This makes it possible for the comment
delimited blocks to use an attribute list (previously the comment
delimited block was hardwired to skip preceding attributes and
titles). See
http://groups.google.com/group/asciidoc/browse_thread/thread/e92a75abcc382701[discu
ssion
list].
- Added `backend-confdir` intrinsic attribute.
.Bug fixes
- *FIXED*: slidy backend: broken 'stylesheet' attribute.
http://groups.google.com/group/asciidoc/browse_thread/thread/58d0843ae4345afd[Patch
]
submitted by Micheal Hackett.
- *FIXED*: Restored
http://groups.google.com/group/asciidoc/browse_thread/thread/b0e69e393b6f9f20/47a2c
7586f9e40c6?lnk=gst&q=themes+tarball#47a2c7586f9e40c6[missing
themes] to zip file distribution archive.
- *FIXED*: Grammatical error in error messages.
http://groups.google.com/group/asciidoc/browse_thread/thread/b9d705c6b6b39f59/1e120
483dafca109[Patch]
submitted by Dag Wieers.
- *FIXED*: Use configured normal substitution in preference to the
default one.
- *FIXED*: The 'eval' block macro would execute multiple times if it
evaluated to 'None'.
- *FIXED*: Duplicated entries in TOC of large document.
http://groups.google.com/group/asciidoc/browse_thread/thread/103445ab9d95cb0c[Patch
]
submitted by Sebastien Helleu.
- *FIXED*: Python 2.4 backward
http://code.google.com/p/asciidoc/issues/detail?id=9[incompatibility].
- *FIXED*: 8.6.6 regression broke Jython compatibility. See
http://groups.google.com/group/asciidoc/browse_thread/thread/4608b77ec289f6c4[discu
ssion
list].
- *FIXED*: Leaky file handles in a2x and music and latex filters which
created incompatibility problems for Jython.
- *FIXED*: All Python filters are executed with the same Python
interpreter that executes the asciidoc parent (previously filters
were hardwired to execute the 'python' interpreter). This prevents
http://groups.google.com/group/asciidoc/browse_thread/thread/14e8fcb289a135b/3af3b4
e57b827c78?lnk=gst&q=archlinux#3af3b4e57b827c78[Python
mix-ups].
- *FIXED*: Microsoft Windows shelled command-line truncation that
caused shelled commands to fail e.g. the 'data-uri' attribute
failure.
Version 8.6.6 (2011-09-04)
--------------------------
.Release highlights
- The AsciiDoc plugin architecture has been enhanced, unified and
extended:
* Plugin commands have been added to the asciidoc(1) `--backend`
option.
* An asciidoc(1) `--theme` option has been implemented to specify a
theme and to manage theme plugins.
* A plugin 'build' command (for creating plugins) added.
* 'build', 'install', 'list' and 'remove' plugin commands are all
recognized by asciidoc(1) `--backend`, `--filter` and `--theme`
options.
- A security update by Kenny MacDermid removes the use of èval()` on
untrusted input (to disallow code malicious execution).

- 'xhtml11', 'html5': Made verse and quote block text darker to print
legibly in Google Chrome browser.
- Added plugin 'build' command for plugin file creation.
- Merged `--help plugins` back to `--help manpage` so it matches the
asciidoc(1) manpage.
- The `--filter` command-line option can specify the name of filters
that will be unconditionally loaded.
- If a filter directory contains a file named `__noautoload__` then
the filter is not automatically loaded (you can used the `--filter`
command-line option to override this behavior).
- tests: Add Italian language tests. Patch submitted by Simon
Ruderich. See:
http://groups.google.com/group/asciidoc/browse_thread/thread/5e2e6f4dd740d51a
- tests: Add tests for localized man pages. Patch submitted by Simon
Ruderich. See:
http://groups.google.com/group/asciidoc/browse_thread/thread/5e2e6f4dd740d51a
- If the section name is prefixed with a '+' character then the
section contents is appended to the contents of an already existing
same-named section (the default behavior is to replace the the
section).
- If a configuration file section named 'docinfo' is loaded then it
will be included in the document header. Typically the 'docinfo'
section name will be prefixed with a '+' character so that it is
appended to (rather than replace) other 'docinfo' sections.
- Added `{sp}` intrinsic attribute for single space character. See
http://groups.google.com/group/asciidoc/browse_thread/thread/a839aa01db0765d2
- Fixed TOC and footnotes generator. Patch submitted by Will. See
http://groups.google.com/group/asciidoc/browse_thread/thread/734ac5afed736987
- The àsciidoc-confdir` attribute is set to the asciidoc executable
directory if it contains global configuration files i.e. a local
asciidoc installation.
- asciidoc now throws an error instead of just a warning of the
backend configuration file is not found.
- latex filter: write MD5 file after successful PNG file generation.
Always delete temp files irrespective of outcome.
- Added truecolor option to LaTeX filter. Patch submitted by Michel
Krmer. See:
http://groups.google.com/group/asciidoc/browse_thread/thread/6436788a10561851
- Unit test for table column specifiers with merged cells. Patch
submitted by Simon Ruderich. See:
http://groups.google.com/group/asciidoc/browse_thread/thread/c9238380a1f2507a
- Added verbose message for ìfeval::[]` macro evaluation.
- Added test case for ìfeval::[]` evaluation.
- Security update to remove the use of èval()` on untrusted input (to
disallow code malicious execution). Patch submitted by Kenny
MacDermid.
- Changed web site layout from table to CSS based. See
http://groups.google.com/group/asciidoc/browse_thread/thread/ec8e8481eb0e27b0/d1c03
5092b5bb7a4?lnk=gst&q=caption+option#d1c035092b5bb7a4
- a2x: Pass `--format` option value to asciidoc as 'a2x-format'
attribute. Patch submitted by Lex Trotman
(http://groups.google.com/group/asciidoc/browse_thread/thread/3e177b84bc133ca9/6597
96dfadad30ea?lnk=gst&q=a2x+format#659796dfadad30ea).
- Added two FAQs submitted by Lex Trotman. See:
http://groups.google.com/group/asciidoc/browse_thread/thread/16d3fb9672a408e7
- html5,xhtml11: Implemented themes directory structure.
- html5,xhtml11: Implemented asciidoc `--theme` management option
(install, list, build and remove commands).
- html5,xhtml11: A theme can now optionally include a JavaScript file
`<theme>.js`
- html5,xhtml11: If the 'data-uri' attribute is defined then icons
from the theme icons directory (if they exist) will be embedded in
the generated document.
- Added optional 'warnings' argument to include macros.
- The asciidoc `--verbose` option now prints file inclusion messages.
- xhtml11, html5: Remove necessity for separate manpage CSS files.
- Added 'css-signature' attribute to tests.
- Add 'css-signature' attribute to set a CSS signature for the
document. Patch submitted by Peg Russell, see:
http://groups.google.com/group/asciidoc/browse_thread/thread/bacbf8aeb8ad6a3a
- White background for toc2 TOC viewport so that horizontally scrolled
content does not obscure the the TOC. Patch submitted by Lionel
Orry, see: http://code.google.com/p/asciidoc/issues/detail?id=8
.Bug fixes
- *FIXED*: Plugin install command: Delete backend directory is install
fails.
- *FIXED*: Plugin install command: Fixed bug extracting binary files
on Windows (reported by Jean-Michel Inglebert).
- *FIXED*: tests: Skip blank sections in testasciidoc.conf test
configuration file instead of throwing an exception (reported by
Jean-Michel Inglebert).
- *FIXED*: If a plugin Zip file does not contain file permissions
(probably because it was created under Windows) then install it
using the default permissions.
- *FIXED*: Fixed missing quote in preceding LaTeX filter patch. Fix
submitted by Simon Ruderich. See:
http://groups.google.com/group/asciidoc/browse_thread/thread/6436788a10561851
- *FIXED*: Some path attributes were processed as escaped Python
strings which could result in corrupted path names with backslash
separated Windows path names. Reported by Will. See:
http://groups.google.com/group/asciidoc/browse_thread/thread/e8f3938bcb4c8bb4/44d13
113a35738ef
- *FIXED*: Vertically spanned table cells resulted in incorrect column
styles being applied to some cells. Reported by Will:
http://groups.google.com/group/asciidoc/browse_thread/thread/c9238380a1f2507a/9afc4
559d51e1dbd
- *FIXED*: LaTeX backend: fixed bad escapes. Patch submitted by Mark
McCurry:
http://groups.google.com/group/asciidoc/browse_thread/thread/8c111f1046b33691/158a9
44cf4d5ff0d?lnk=gst&q=latex+escapes#158a944cf4d5ff0d
- *FIXED*: When using slidy backend, display of characters with
accents is wrong because of 'meta http-equiv' line missing. Reported
by Fabrice Flore-Thebault. See:
http://groups.google.com/group/asciidoc/browse_thread/thread/eaf25f21d1da180a
Version 8.6.5 (2011-05-20)

--------------------------
.Release highlights
- The addition of an 'html5' backend to generate HTML 5 output. Apart
from the inclusion of 'audio' and 'video' block macros the 'html5'
backend is functionally identical to the 'xhtml11' backend.
- A new 'flask' theme for 'xhtml11' and 'html5' backends inspired by

the http://flask.pocoo.org/docs/[Flask website] styling (see 'toc2'
example in the next item below).
- The new 'toc2' attribute generates a table of contents in

the left hand margin ('xhtml11' and 'html5' backends).
link:article-html5-toc2.html[This example] was generated using
the following command:
asciidoc -b html5 -a icons -a toc2 -a theme=flask article.txt
- à2x(1)` now has a flexible mechanism for copying arbitrary

resource files to HTML based outputs -- this is very handy for
generating EPUB files with embedded fonts and other resources.
* The à2x(1)` `--resource` option can be used to inject any file

into EPUB output documents e.g. CSS resources such as fonts and
background images.
* Explicitly specified resources are added to the EPUB OPF manifest
automatically.
* You can explicitly specify file extension MIME types.
* The enhanced resource processing works around a couple of DocBook
XSL bugs (see link:epub-notes.html[EPUB Notes]).

- A new 'flask' theme for 'xhtml11' and 'html5' backends. A shameless
knock-off of the http://flask.pocoo.org/docs/[Flask website]
styling.
- Added HTML 5 article with 'toc2' table of contents to the example on
the AsciiDoc website home page.
- Added 'filters' and 'topics' help topics. Fixed documentation
errors in help text. Patch submitted by Lionel Orry, see:
http://groups.google.com/group/asciidoc/browse_thread/thread/9da9d48a6461ff14
- Pass parent configuration files, command-line attributes and header
attributes to table asciidoc filters. Based on patch submitted by
Simon Ruderich, see:
http://groups.google.com/group/asciidoc/browse_thread/thread/5c792cbb395b753b
- Allow a 'title' attribute entry in the document header so that HTML
backends can set the 'title' element separately from the displayed
document title (the 'doctitle' attribute).
- Pass 'lang' attribute to 'asciidoc' table style filter. Patch
submitted by Simon Ruderich, see:
http://groups.google.com/group/asciidoc/browse_thread/thread/e2100b7cb29283ce
- xhtml11,html5: Added 'toc2' attribute which generates a scrollable
table of contents in the left hand margin. Based on customized CSS
written by Suraj Kurapati, see
http://groups.google.com/group/asciidoc/browse_thread/thread/c5e30ee5555877f5
- Added 'asciidoc-confdir' intrinsic attribute which expands to the
global conf directory.
- Documented that you can specify multiple CSS files with the a2x(1)
`--stylesheet` command option. See:
http://groups.google.com/group/asciidoc/browse_thread/thread/baf3218551d05a05
- Improved xhtml11 backend's table of contents generation latency.
Patch submitted by Hongli Lai. See:
http://groups.google.com/group/asciidoc/browse_thread/thread/5a7fe64fbfd65ad
- Added html5 backend.
- For consistency converted all DOS formatted configuration and text
files to UNIX format.
- html4: Added ability to use 'role' attribute with most block
elements. Patch contributed by Simon Ruderich. See
http://groups.google.com/group/asciidoc/browse_thread/thread/5620ba634fdb030a
- Added Dutch language configuration file and accompanying test file
(contributed by Dag Wieers, see
http://groups.google.com/group/asciidoc/browse_thread/thread/f969b9ce987d7f5d).
- Configuration files are loaded in two passes when the -e
command-line option is used (the same behavior as when the -e option
is not used). Patch submitted by haad. See
http://groups.google.com/group/asciidoc/browse_thread/thread/cd0f47495fd04181
and
http://code.google.com/p/asciidoc/issues/detail?id=6&q=label%3APriority-Medium
- Documented how to include embedded fonts in an EPUB document.
- a2x: Added `.<ext>=<mimetype>` resource specifier syntax.
- a2x: Enable admonition icons in example EPUBs.
- a2x: allow environment variables and tilde home directories in
resource manifest files.
- a2x: don't process non-existent resource directories.
- a2x: assume resource option is a directory if the name ends with a
directory separator.
- a2x: Added a new syntax to the `--resource` option specifier which
allows the destination path to be specified.
- a2x: Copy resources referenced in the OPF and resources referenced
by the generated HTML (in theory DocBook XSL should ensure they are
identical but this is not always the case e.g.
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?
func=detail&atid=373747&aid=2854075&group_id=21935).
- Drop border from callout list image links.
- html4: Moved manpage NAME section out of header so that the name
section is rendered when the asciidoc(1) `--no-header-footer` option
is specified (so that manpages processed blogpost include the NAME
section).
- Vim syntax highlighter: TODO markers now appear in list items and
literal paragraphs and blocks.
- Constrained quotes can now be bounded on the left by a } character.
See:
http://groups.google.com/group/asciidoc/browse_thread/thread/b24cc3362f35b801
- Added text-decoration roles (underline, overline, line-through,
blink) for xhtml11 and html5 outputs.
.Bug fixes
- *FIXED*: epubcheck 1.1 previously issued a warning for files not
registered in the manifest (epubcheck 1.0.5 did not). This resulted
in a problem compiling the adventures-of-sherlock-holmes.txt example
(the ùnderline.png` resource was not in the manifest).
Version 8.6.4 (2011-02-20)

--------------------------
- Added text foreground and background color along with text size CSS
styles for XHTML outputs, see {website}userguide.html#X96[].
- Vim syntax highlighter: highlight macros that start with an
attribute reference (a common idiom).
- Vim syntax highlighter: highlight attribute references in macro
attribute lists.
- Attribute entries can be used to set configuration markup templates.
- Double-width East Asian characters in titles now correctly match the
title underline widths. Submitted by Changjian Gao (see
http://groups.google.com/group/asciidoc/browse_thread/thread/77f28b0dfe60d262).
- Implemented {website}manpage.html[asciidoc(1)] filter commands, see:
http://groups.google.com/group/asciidoc/browse_thread/thread/40c64cd33ee1905c
- User's home directory now calculated in a platform independent
manner.
- Added double-quote characters to French language file. Patch
contributed Yves-Alexis Perez, see:
http://groups.google.com/group/asciidoc/browse_thread/thread/e15282f072413940
- Vim Syntax highlighter: Highlight closing OpenBlocks which
immediately follow a literal paragraph.
- Changed UNIX `/dev/null` to OS independent òs.devnull` in filters
code. Suggested by Henrik Maier:
http://groups.google.com/group/asciidoc/browse_thread/thread/5ac8e8ea895147e9
- Vim syntax highlighter: Single and double quoted text now highlights
correctly when preceded by an attributes list.
- Added Ukrainian language file (`lang-uk.conf`). Added double-quote
characters to Russian language file.conf). Patches contributed by
Lavruschenko Oleksandr, see
- Single and double quote characters are now set using the `{lsquo}`,
`{rsquo}`, `{ldquo}` and `{rdquo}` attributes. This makes is easy to
customise language specific quotes. See:
- Implemented 'conf-files' attribute to allow configuration files to
be specified in the source document. Suggested by Lex Trotman, see:
http://groups.google.com/group/asciidoc/browse_thread/thread/b11066a828ab45b9
.Bug fixes
- *FIXED*: Auto-generated section title ids are now Unicode aware.
- *FIXED*: Setting 'quotes' configuration entries using document
attribute entries failed if the attribute entry was not in the
document header. See:
http://groups.google.com/group/asciidoc/browse_thread/thread/a1dd0562dee8b939
- *FIXED*: If the input and output file names were different then the
output file name was incorrectly used to synthesize 'docinfo' file
names. Reported by Christian Zuckschwerdt.
- *FIXED*: An error can occur when more than one consecutive quotes
are defined as a blank string. Reported by Peggy Russell.
- *FIXED*: Encoding error in automatically generated author initials.
Patch submitted by Xin Wang. See:
http://groups.google.com/group/asciidoc/browse_thread/thread/f44615dca0b834e9
Version 8.6.3 (2010-11-14)
--------------------------
- Added and 'unbreakable' option to bulleted and numbered lists
(thanks to Henrik Maier for this patch).
- Added ìfeval::[]` system macro (thanks to Henrik Maier for
suggesting this feature).
- The image 'scale' attribute sets the DocBook 'imagedata' element
'scale' attribute. Patch submitted by Henrik Maier.
- DocBook 'preface', 'colophon' and 'dedication' style section titles
now work. Based on patch submitted by Henrik Maier.
- 'a2x': Do not inject xsltproc parameters if they were specified on
the command-line (parameter double-ups generate xsltproc 'Global
parameter already defined' errors).
- 'a2x': Refactored xsltproc parameter injection.
- 'a2x': articles chunked at section level by default.
- 'attributes', 'titles' and 'specialcharacters' sections are now read
from the local àsciidoc.conf` file before the header is parsed.
This fixes a regression problem. See
http://groups.google.com/group/asciidoc/browse_thread/thread/1b3f88f1f8118ab3
- Document header attributes take precedence over configuration file
attributes.
- Refactored 'music', 'graphviz' and 'latex' filter configurations.
- Refactored source filter configuration and added literal paragraph
source style.
- Separated paragraph styles from paragraph syntax -- any style can be
applied to any syntax.
- Added 'listing' and 'quote' paragraph styles.
- Renamed paragraph 'default' style to 'normal'.
- Updated `--help` option text.
- 'a2x': The àsciidoc_opts`, `dblatex_opts`, `fop_opts` and
`xsltproc_opts` command-line options can be specified multiple
times. This makes embedding multiple 'a2x' options in document
headers easier to manage and less error prone.
- Added ASCIIMathML and LaTeXMathML support to slidy backend.
- Pass the 'encoding' attribute to the Pygments source highlight
filter command.
- 'a2x': HTML Help `.hhk` file named after AsciiDoc source file.
- 'a2x': Added `--xsl-file` option to allow custom XSL stylesheets to
be specified.
- Make builds the man pages. Patch submitted by Sebastian Pipping. See
http://groups.google.com/group/asciidoc/browse_thread/thread/c21c2902c29bae64
.Bug fixes
- *FIXED*: Sometimes double backquotes were misinterpreted as inline
literal macros. See:
http://groups.google.com/group/asciidoc/browse_thread/thread/f510ea82a88aaee8
- *FIXED*: Regression in 8.6.2: command-line attributes were not
available to the global asciidoc.conf.
- *FIXED*: Postponed document title substitutions until backend conf
files have been loaded (8.6.2 regression). See
http://groups.google.com/group/asciidoc/browse_thread/thread/42b63ce90c2563b8
- *FIXED*: The XSL Stylesheets customizations were preventing chapter
and section level TOCs from being generated when using XSL
Stylesheets via 'a2x'. See
http://groups.google.com/group/asciidoc/browse_thread/thread/42b63ce90c2563b8
- *FIXED*: `ÙnicodeDecodeError: \'ascii' codec can't decode byte''
error. This error is due to a limitation in the Python HTMLParser
module, see: http://bugs.python.org/issue3932
- *FIXED*: Broken `--no-conf` option (8.6.2 regression).
- *FIXED*: Regression in 8.6.2: configuration attribute entries set in
the document header may cause a 'FAILED: incomplete configuration
files' error.
- *FIXED*: 'html4': corrected self closed meta tags.
- *FIXED*: 'a2x' regression in 8.6.2: HTML Help `.hhp` file name had
reverted to default name instead of the AsciiDoc source file name.
See:
http://groups.google.com/group/asciidoc/browse_thread/thread/dedc961b23e9ac56
- *FIXED*: Attributes in man page title caused it to be dropped
resulting in invalid DocBook output.
- *FIXED*: `make uninstall` now deletes the àsciidoc.1` and à2x.1`
man pages.
Version 8.6.2 (2010-10-03)

--------------------------
- 'docbook45': Enclosed bibliographic lists in a 'bibliodiv' -- you
can now include block titles with bibliographic lists.
- Added optional 'keywords', 'description' and 'title' document header
meta-data attributes to HTML backends for SEO.
- AttributeEntry values can span multiple lines with a ' +' line
continuation.
- Added 'slidy' backend (based on Phillip Lord's slidy backend
https://phillordbio-asciidoc-fixes.googlecode.com/hg/).
- Implemented 'OpenBlock' 'partintro' style for book part
introductions.
- Comment lines substitute special characters only.
- Backend specific global configuration files (all except
àsciidoc.conf`) are loaded *after* the header has been parsed --
virtually any attribute can now be specified in the document header.
- 'xhtml11': Volnitsky theme: allow bulleted lists to have intervening
children.
- 'xhtml11': refactored CSS font-family rules to start of file.
- 'xhtml11': list bullets colored gray.
- 'ifdef' and 'ifndef' system block macros accept multiple attribute
names: multiple names separated by commas are 'ored'; multiple
attribute names separated by pluses are 'anded'.
- 'xhtml11': Volnitsky theme: set max-width on labeled lists.
- Vim syntax highlighter: Entities inside quoted text are now
highlighted.
- Added 'role' and 'id' attributes to HTML outputs generated by
'OpenBlocks'.
- Allow floating titles to generate 'h1' (level 0) titles in HTML
outputs.
- Added a 'start' attribute to numbered lists to set the start number.
See:
http://groups.google.com/group/asciidoc/browse_thread/thread/c14a4c3b1e4f6dc5
- Added two more docinfo attributes 'docinfo1' and 'docinfo2' to allow
and control inclusion of a shared docinfo file. See
http://groups.google.com/group/asciidoc/browse_thread/thread/c948697943432e24
- Vim syntax highlighter highlights multi-name conditional attributes.
- LaTeX backend patch submitted by Andreas Hermann Braml (see
http://groups.google.com/group/asciidoc/browse_thread/thread/1c415fc4540ce5e5).
- Implemented 'backend aliases'; renamed `docbook.conf` to
`docbook45.conf` and aliased 'docbook45' backend to 'docbook';
aliased 'xhtml11' to 'html'.
.Bug fixes
- *FIXED*: Filter commands located in filter directories local to the
source document that where not in the search 'PATH' where not found.
- *FIXED*: Volnitsky theme: Verseblock font set normal instead of
monospaced.
- *FIXED*: 'xhtml11': Callout icons were not rendered as Data URIs
when 'icons' and 'data-uri' attributes were specified.
- *FIXED*: Long standing bug: nested include macros did not restore
the parent document 'infile' and 'indir' attributes. See:
http://groups.google.com/group/asciidoc/browse_thread/thread/8712a95e95a292a7
- *FIXED*: 'html4': set preamble ID anchor.
- *FIXED*: 'xhtml11': dropped unusable 'id' and 'role' attributes from
preamble template.
- *FIXED*: Bug in multi-name conditional attributes e.g. `{x,y#}`
fails if x or y is undefined.
- *FIXED*: latex filter not being installed by Makefile. Thanks to
Grant Edwards for this patch. See
http://groups.google.com/group/asciidoc/browse_thread/thread/c4427a3902d130a8
- *FIXED*: 'a2x': Long-standing bug in a2x which always passes
`--string-param navig.graphics 0` to 'xsltproc', regardless of
whether icons are enabled or not. Reported by Michael Wild:
http://groups.google.com/group/asciidoc/browse_thread/thread/59a610068e4acb58
Version 8.6.1 (2010-08-22)

--------------------------
- 'a2x': `--resource-dir` option renamed to `--resource`.
- 'a2x': `--resource` option accepts both file and directory names.
- 'a2x': Added `-m,--resource-manifest` option.
- Added Vim syntax highlighting for quote attribute lists.
- Load 'asciidoc.conf' from all configuration directories before any
other configuration files. This ensures that attributes used for
conditional inclusion are set before backend configuration files are
processed. Previously if you wanted to control global conf file
inclusion your only choice was to modify the global 'asciidoc.conf'
file.
- AsciiDoc 'Quote element' attributes have been simplified and
generalized -- positional color and size attributes and named 'role'
attribute have been replaced by a single positional attribute.
.Bug fixes
- *FIXED*: 'testasciidoc.py': `BACKEND` command argument was being
ignored.
- *FIXED*: Broken 'docinfo' file functionality in 'html4' and
'xhtml11' backends (previously the docinfo file was included in
the 'body' instead of the 'header').
Regression issues
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
This release breaks compatibility with quoted element positional color
and size attributes (HTML backends). To revert to the deprecated quote
behavior define the 'deprecated-quotes' attribute in the global
àsciidoc.conf` file or on the command-line. For a more detailed
explanation of the rationale behind this change see
http://groups.google.com/group/asciidoc/browse_thread/thread/b22603bfb879418c.
Version 8.6.0 (2010-08-16)
--------------------------
- The AsciiDoc distribution can now be built `òut of the box''
from the distribution tarball or the Mercurial repository
(provided you have the requisite build applications installed).
- The global configuration files directory is ignored by both
'asciidoc' and 'a2x' if AsciiDoc configuration files are installed
in the same directory as the asciidoc executable. This change
allows both a system wide copy and multiple local copies of AsciiDoc
to coexist on the same host PC.
- CSS 'quirks' mode is no longer the default 'xhtml11' output
(http://groups.google.com/group/asciidoc/browse_thread/thread/1c02d27d49221aa2).
- Relaxed anchor ID name syntax
(http://groups.google.com/group/asciidoc/browse_thread/thread/5f3e825c74ed30c).
- Added document files: `doc/epub-notes.txt`,
`doc/publishing-ebooks-with-asciidoc.txt`.
- 'a2x': If all other resource locations are exhausted then recursively
search directories named 'images' and 'stylesheets' in the
'asciidoc' configuration files directory.
- 'a2x': options can also be set in the AsciiDoc source file. If the
source file contains a line beginning with '// a2x:' then the
remainder of the line will be treated as a2x command-line options.
- Added dblatex table-width processing instruction -- tables generated
by dblatex now observe the AsciiDoc table width as a percentage
(thanks to Gustav Broberg for suggesting this enhancement).
- 'a2x': Don't exit if the `--epubcheck` option is set and 'epubcheck'
is missing, issue warning and continue.
- Added a global 'plaintext' attribute for dealing with large amounts
of imported text.
- The author name format has been relaxed, if the the author does not
match the formal specification then it is assigned to the
'firstname' attribute (previously asciidoc exited with an error
message).
- FAQ and documentation updates.
- Refactored chunked.xsl and epub.xsl files.
- Exchanged article.epub for more relevant book.epub on website.
- Put asciidoc.epub User Guide on website.
- 'a2x': Chunking EPUB and HTML outputs set to a per chapter basis and
the first chapter is separate from preceding contents.
- Changed dates format in example article and books to suppress EPUB
validation error.
- Added 'style' and 'role' CSS classes to xhtml11 section templates.
- Added the 'role' element to xhtml11 backend block templates.
- Suppressed md5 module deprecation warning from music and Graphviz filters.
- Pygments (http://pygments.org/) option added to source code
highlight filter. Based on Pygments source code filter written by
David Hajage
(http://groups.google.com/group/asciidoc/browse_thread/thread/d8d042f5a3021369/8934
ebbb8cb7144b).
- xhtml11: Added a new theme (volnitsky). Written and contributed by
Leonid V. Volnitsky.
- xhtml11: Set body element class name to document type.
- Added refentryinfo element and contents (including revdate) to man
page DocBook output. Man pages are now dated using the revdate
attribute value if it has been defined. Based on patch supplied by
Rainer Muller
http://groups.google.com/group/asciidoc/browse_frm/thread/319e5cd94493e330/3fcb83fa
b067af42.
- Added `{template:...}` system attribute.
- Table of contents attribute 'toc' can now be specified in the
document header.
- Reimplemented music and latex filter -m option functionality when
the input is stdin using MD5 checksums.
- Added 'latex' filter.
- Added auto file name generation to image generating filters
(latex,music, graphviz).
- Added `counter2` and `set2` system attributes (to implement image
auto file name generation).
- Undefined attribute in filter command generates error but does not
exit.
- Attribute substitution proceeds from start line to end line
(previously was in reverse order which was really confusing).
- Tidied up music filter code:
* Format option is optional and default to 'abc' unless Lilypond
notation detected.
* The -m option does not apply to stdin input.
- Added paragraph styles to music and graphviz filters.
- Documented dynamic template names. 753: Graphviz filter can now
generate SVG format images. Patch submitted by Elmo Todurov, see:
http://groups.google.com/group/asciidoc/browse_frm/thread/fe9b33d8f5f1e0af
The xhtml11 SVG Graphviz template marked EXPERIMENTAL. No SVG
support for other backends.
- AsciiDoc template names can now contain embedded attribute
references.
- Added 'legalnotice' tag to `doc/article-docinfo.xml` example.
- xhtml11 backend: Callouts and callout lists display callout icons
when the 'icons' attribute is defined. See
http://groups.google.com/group/asciidoc/browse_frm/thread/8eda3ea812968854
- Document attribute names are case insensitive everywhere, this makes using
attribute entries more consistent e.g. previously :VERS: had to be refered to
with {vers} ({VERS} did not work).
- Hungarian translation of footer-text (submitted by Miklos Vajna).
See
http://groups.google.com/group/asciidoc/browse_frm/thread/7174cb7598993c72#
- asciidocapi.py 0.1.2: Can now load AsciiDoc script named asciidoc.
See
http://groups.google.com/group/asciidoc/browse_frm/thread/66e7b59d12cd2f91
Based on patch submitted by Phillip Lord.
- German translation of footer-text (submitted by Simon Ruderich). See
http://groups.google.com/group/asciidoc/browse_frm/thread/7174cb7598993c72
- Pushed HTML footer text into language conf files with the
introduction of a [footer-text] configuration file template section.
See
.Bug fixes
- *FIXED*: Sometimes multiple double quoted text elements in the same
paragraph were mistakenly seen as starting with an inline literal.
See
http://groups.google.com/group/asciidoc/browse_frm/thread/219c86ae25b79a21
- *FIXED*: 'localtime' and 'doctime' attributes calculated incorrect
daylight saving / non daylight saving timezones and consequently so
did HTML footers. Patch submitted by Slawomir Testowy. See
http://groups.google.com/group/asciidoc/browse_frm/thread/af652507caf6cec9
- *FIXED*: Missing selector for 'List of examples' title in DocBook
CSS file. Patch submitted by Laurent Laville. See
http://groups.google.com/group/asciidoc/browse_frm/thread/3f96900f7fbf5620
- *FIXED*: Broken accents in lang-hu.conf. See:
- *FIXED*: DocBook XSL generated HTML callout lists are properly
aligned. Submitted by Lionel Orry. See
http://groups.google.com/group/asciidoc/browse_frm/thread/2ff802547b6a75ea
- *FIXED*: Filter execution now occurs prior to filter markup template
substitution to ensure image data URI encoding happens after image
generation (see
http://groups.google.com/group/asciidoc/browse_thread/thread/14e8fcb289a135b).
- *FIXED*: The section numbers no longer increment when the 'numbered'
attribute is undefined (see
http://groups.google.com/group/asciidoc/browse_thread/thread/faa36e9e5c7da019/d24ca
b3fe363e58d).
Version 8.5.3 (2010-01-18)

--------------------------
- a2x: Added a2x configuration file options ASCIIDOC_OPTS,
DBLATEX_OPTS, FOP_OPTS, XSLTPROC_OPTS (appended to same-named
command-line options). See
http://groups.google.com/group/asciidoc/browse_frm/thread/ac4b9bfa2116db28
- Dropped `.hgignore` from the repository. See
http://groups.google.com/group/asciidoc/browse_frm/thread/c17abd175778f5ea
- Don't pass verbose options to asciidoc table filter so that
asciidocapi messages are not discarded. See:
http://groups.google.com/group/asciidoc/browse_frm/thread/c17abd175778f5ea
- Added `./tests/data/lang-pt-BR-test.txt` file to the repository.
- xhtml11: Verse block and verse paragraph content enveloped in a
'pre' tag (instead of a 'div') so it renders better in text-only
browsers. See:
http://groups.google.com/group/asciidoc/browse_frm/thread/1b6b66adb24e710
- User Guide: Clarified Passthrough Blocks (suggested by Simon
Ruderich).
- FAQ: 'How can I include lines of dashes inside a listing block?'
- FAQ errata and updates (submitted by Simon Ruderich).
- User Guide errata.
- Simplified 'asciidoc-toc' processing instruction and included lists
of figures, tables, examples and equations in books (i.e. revert to
pre-8.5.0 behavior).
- Attempted to have dblatex recognise the 'asciidoc-toc' processing
instruction but couldn't get it to work.
- Added 'notitle' attribute to allow the document title to be hidden.
.Bug fixes
- *FIXED*: Regression: system attribute escaping did not work.
- *FIXED*: Website: broken image links in chunked User Guide.
Version 8.5.2 (2009-12-07)

--------------------------
- Updated example article and book documents with the recommended
explicit section name syntax (see the 'Special section titles
vs. explicit template names' sidebar in the AsciiDoc 'User Guide').
- Added Italian language configuration file (contributed by Fabio
Inguaggiato).
- Added 'header' table style. See:
http://groups.google.com/group/asciidoc/browse_frm/thread/a23fea28394c8ca9
- Pass 'icons', 'data-uri', 'imagesdir', 'iconsdir' attributes to
'asciidoc' table style filter so that images are rendered in table
cells.
- Pass 'trace' and 'verbose' attributes to 'asciidoc' table style
filter so diagnostic information is printed from table cell source.
- The 'eval' system attribute can be nested inside other system
attributes.
- HTML outputs: Table and figure caption punctuation set to more usual
syntax.
- docbook backend: footnotes can now contain embedded images. See
http://groups.google.com/group/asciidoc/browse_frm/thread/50b28f6941de111a
- CSS tweaks so that tables processed by DocBook XSL Stylesheets have
the default asciidoc xhtml11 backend styling. See
http://groups.google.com/group/asciidoc/browse_frm/thread/dfe5204d5b2c9685
- Block titles take precedence over section titles to avoid titled
delimited blocks being mistaken for two line section titles (see
http://groups.google.com/group/asciidoc/browse_frm/thread/f0b6f9989f828c3).
- Section title trace displays level and title text.
- FAQ additions.
- Added `{zwsp}` (zero width space) attribute.
- Undefined paragraph styles are reported (previously threw a runtime
error).
- Eliminated empty preamble generation.
- Floating titles now processed in all contexts.
- Implemented auto-lettered appendix names and updated example
documents.
- Section numbering can be disabled in HTML outputs with a
':numbered!:' AttributeEntry.
- xhtml11: Nicer default quote block styling.
- Exclude floating titles from xhtml11 table of contents. Patch
submitted by Mark Burton (see
http://groups.google.com/group/asciidoc/browse_frm/thread/14aefc1cb6bd85f5).
- Enhanced `doc/article-docinfo.xml` example docinfo file.
- Vim syntax highlighter improvements.
.Bug fixes
- *FIXED*: Absolute 'imagesdir' and 'iconsdir' attribute path names
do not work with the xhtml11 data-uri encoding. See
http://groups.google.com/group/asciidoc/browse_frm/thread/cb8b7694bbc82a6
- *FIXED*: Regression issue with inline data-uri images. See
http://groups.google.com/group/asciidoc/browse_frm/thread/cb8b7694bbc82a6
- *FIXED*: An unexpected error occurred when processing a table
containing CSV data if the 'cols' attribute was not explicitly
specified. See
http://groups.google.com/group/asciidoc/browse_frm/thread/4b0f364b477ec165
Version 8.5.1 (2009-10-31)

--------------------------
- If an AsciiDoc document file begins with a UTF-8 BOM (byte order
mark) then it is passed transparently through to the output file.
The BOM is stripped from included files. See
http://groups.google.com/group/asciidoc/browse_frm/thread/e5e61823ff4203cd
- Added AsciiDoc 'role' attribute to quoted text. Sets 'class'
attribute in HTML outputs; 'role' attribute in DocBook outputs. See:
http://groups.google.com/group/asciidoc/browse_frm/thread/2aa3e5711d243045
- Conditional attribute syntax extended: they now accept multiple ORed
or ANDed attribute names.
- The 'xhtml11' backend dynamically processes footnotes using
JavaScript.
- Tidied up and namespaced 'xhtml11' JavaScript.
- Superceded `javascripts/toc.js` with `javascripts/asciidoc-xhtml11.js`.
- Added 'disable-javascript' attribute ('xhtml11' backend).
- Styled HTML footnotes.
- Added links to HTML footnote refs.
- Added title attribute to inline image macros to display popup
``tooltip'' (HTML outputs only).
- Single-quoted attribute values are substituted in block macros (just
like the AttributeList element).
- For consistency changed underscores to dashes in attribute names.
Public attributes with underscores retained for compatibility.
- Added Brazilian Portuguese language configuration file (contributed
by Thiago Farina).
- Added 'leveloffset' attribute to make it easier to combine
documents.
.Bug fixes
- *FIXED:* a2x: `--dblatex-opts` is now processed last so
àsciidoc-dblatex.xsl` params can be overridden. Patch submitted by
Mark Fernandes (see
http://groups.google.com/group/asciidoc/browse_frm/thread/5215c99dcc865e7d).
- *FIXED:* An error occurred if a directory in current path with same
name as executable.
Regression issues
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
There's been quite a bit of tiding up to the xhtml11 JavaScript. The
most obvious change is that the toc.js script has been superceded by
asciidoc-xhtml11.js so if you're linking you'll need get a copy of
the new file from the distribution javascripts directory.
If you use customised xhtml11 configuration file `[header]` and

`[footer]` sections and you want them to use the new footnotes feature
then you've got a bit more work to do:
. The onload event expression changed.

. The new `<div id="content">...</div>` div envelopes document
content.
. You need to add `<div id="footnotes">...</div>` div to the
`[footnotes]` section for footnotes to work.
. Drop the ìfdef::toc[]` macro that surround JavaScript inclusion.
Take a look at the [header] and [footer] changes in the xhtml11.conf

diff to see what's going on:
http://hg.sharesource.org/asciidoc/diff/55a5999bfd04/xhtml11.conf
Version 8.5.0 (2009-10-04)

--------------------------
- Implemented a 'float' attribute for tables and block images (HTML
outputs only).
- Added ùnfloat::[]` block macro to cancel floating.
- Added table 'align' attribute to (HTML outputs only).
- The image 'align' attribute now works with HTML backends.
- Renamed table cell 'align' attribute to 'halign' so it doesn't clash
with the new table 'align' attribute.
- Added 'breakable' and 'unbreakable' options to AsciiDoc example and
block image elements.
- `[miscellaneous]` section entries now update properly when set from
a document 'AttributeEntry'.
- `[miscellaneous]` section `pagewidth` entry accepts fractional
values.
- Fractional column widths are now calculated correctly when using
fractional 'pageunits' (DocBook tables).
- Use DocBook XSL table width processing instructions.
- asciidoc 'KeyboardInterrupt' exits with error code 1.
- Added 'set' system attribute to allow attributes to be set from
configuration file templates.
- Allow constrained quotes to be bounded on the left by a colons and
semicolons, see
http://groups.google.com/group/asciidoc/browse_frm/thread/b276a927fdc87995
- Titled listing and literal blocks (DocBook outputs) no longer default
to examples. See
http://groups.google.com/group/asciidoc/browse_frm/thread/f4df7c9eec01a9bd
- Updated language file table, figure and example captions to
accommodate new auto-numbering in html4 and xhtml11 backends.
- Titled source highlight filter listings generated by docbook backend
are now rendered as examples. See
http://groups.google.com/group/asciidoc/browse_frm/thread/f4df7c9eec01a9bd
- Implemented 'counter' system attribute.
- Use 'counter' system attributes to number titled tables and block
images in HTML backends.
- Added program name suffix to console messages.
- Added substitution to the 'AttributeEntry' passthrough syntax, this
replaces the now unnecessary 'attributeentry-subs' attribute.
- Allow passthrough inline macro syntax to be used in
'AttributeEntrys'.
- Reinstated 8.4.4 default 'lang' attribute behavior. See
http://groups.google.com/group/asciidoc/browse_frm/thread/d29924043e21cb6a.
- Added 'max-width' attribute to the 'xhtml11' backend to set maximum
display width. See
http://groups.google.com/group/asciidoc/browse_frm/thread/74d9a542b79ccd50.
- Added 'a2x.py', a rewritten and much enhanced version of the old
'a2x' bash script.
- The new 'a2x' can output EPUB formatted documents.
- Added `--safe` option and deprecated `--unsafe` option. Patch
submitted by Todd Zullinger. See
http://groups.google.com/group/asciidoc/browse_frm/thread/ea3a8ea399ae5d2a
and
http://groups.google.com/group/asciidoc/browse_frm/thread/69b3183fdab7c6a5
- Added 'CHECK' and 'TEST' todo highlight words to Vim syntax
highlighter.
- Line breaks, page breaks, and horizontal rulers are now processed by
dblatex, thanks to a patch submitted by Mark Fernandes
(http://groups.google.com/group/asciidoc/browse_frm/thread/a254cf949ea7c6c5).
- Allow footnote macros hard up against the preceding word so the
rendered footnote mark can be placed against the noted text without
an intervening space (patch submitted by Stas Bushuev,
http://groups.google.com/group/asciidoc/browse_frm/thread/e1dcb7ee0efc17b5).
- Normalized path in `safe_filename` function (submitted by Todd
Zullinger,
http://groups.google.com/group/asciidoc/browse_frm/thread/69b3183fdab7c6a5).
- The Asciidoc 'numbered' and 'toc' attributes cause DocBook outputs
to include àsciidoc-numbered` and àsciidoc-toc` processing
instructions, these are used by DocBook XSL to include section
numbering and table of contents (like Asciidoc HTML backends). For
backward compatibility both 'numbered' and 'toc' attributes are
defined by default when the 'docbook' backend is used. See
http://groups.google.com/group/asciidoc/browse_frm/thread/1badad21ff9447ac.
- 'data-uri' attribute is now evaluated dynamically and can be set in
document body (previously could only be set from command-line).
- Added 'sys3' and 'eval3' system attributes to passthrough generated
output, this fixes the data-uri inline image problem:
http://groups.google.com/group/asciidoc/browse_frm/thread/a42db6bc54c2c537.
- Missing language file generates a warning instead of an error.
- Updated Spanish language file (updates contributed by Gustavo Andrs
Gmez Farhat).
.Bug fixes
- *FIXED:* Options in an 'AttributeList' option attribute are merged
with (rather than replace) configuration file options.
- *FIXED:* Comment blocks and comment block macros no longer consume
preceding block titles and attribute lists.
- *FIXED:* èxamples/website/layout1.conf` and
èxamples/website/layout2.conf` TOC problem. Submitted by Mark
(burtoogle). See
http://groups.google.com/group/asciidoc/browse_frm/thread/b9c63be67dd1d11c
- *FIXED:* Only the first occurrence of passthrough macro was
substituted. Patch submitted by Peter Johnson. See
http://groups.google.com/group/asciidoc/browse_frm/thread/1269dc2feb1a482c
- *FIXED:* asciidoc now runs on Jython 2.5.0.
- *FIXED:* Wordpress margins and pads in a number of block
elements
(http://groups.google.com/group/asciidoc/browse_frm/thread/36ff073c79cbc20a).
Regression issues
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- Tables generated by 'dblatex' occupy 100% of the available space
regardless of the 'width' attribute setting. To restore width
behavior change the 'pageunits' miscellaneous parameter to 'pt'. You
can do this from the command-line with the `-a pageunits=pt` option.
See {website}userguide.html#X89[DocBook table widths].
Version 8.4.5 (2009-05-24)

--------------------------
- Added manpage 'Name' and 'Synopsis' section title customization to languages
configuration files.
- Synopsis manpage section no longer mandatory.
- Section markup templates can be specified by setting the title's
first positional attribute or 'template' attribute.
- The article and book document header can now include a revision
remark.
- A 'role' attribute can now be applied to block elements. This adds
the 'role' attribute to DocBook elements. Patch submitted by
http://groups.google.com/group/asciidoc/browse_thread/thread/62278a054188a038[Noah
Slater]).
- Renamed 'revision' and 'date' attributes to more sensible and consistent
'revnumber' and 'revdate' (old names deprecated but still
recognized).
- Moved backend specific attributes to Appendix H in User Guide.
- Renamed and generalized the docbook backend revision history
inclusion mechanism to 'docinfo' to reflect the use of all article
or book information elements. The old revision history names still
work but have been deprecated.
- Refactored docbook.conf headers.
- Moved line break replacement from `[replacements]` to
`[replacements2]` so the replacement occurs after the mailto macro.
This fixes bug
http://groups.google.com/group/asciidoc/browse_thread/thread/4bdcdfb0af773e2
- The typewriter to punctuation apostrophe replacement can be escaped
with a backslash.
- Graphviz filter outputs images to 'imagesdir' if it is defined.
- Made the block image macro generic so that it can be used for filter
outputs. As a result Music and Graphviz filters:
* Have been greatly simplified.
* Honor the 'data-uri' attribute.
* 'html4' outputs no longer generate W3C validation warning.
- The 'iconsdir' attribute no longer requires a trailing directory
separator character.
- Removed borders around linked html4 images.
- Added 'html4' specific HTML output for music filter.
- 'a2x': Added `--unsafe` option (shortcut for
`--asciidoc-opts=--unsafe`).
- 'a2x': The FOP executable can now be named `fop` (this is the
default name in some distributions).
- Attributes are now substituted in the system macro attribute list.
- If the output is set to stdout (i.e. no output directory is defined)
then Music and Graphviz filters will output included images to the
source file directory.
- Added 'name' directive to 'testasciidoc'.
- Added lots of 'testasciidoc' new tests.
- Moved language specific configuration parameters into `lang-en.conf`
file.
- 'lang' attribute entry can be specified in the AsciiDoc source file
(preceding the header).
- Removed cruft from A-A-P scripts and documented them.
- Added German language config file (`lang-de.conf`) contributed by
Michael Wild.
- Added French language config file (`lang-fr.conf`) contributed by
Yves-Alexis Perez.
- Added Russian language config file (`lang-ru.conf`) contributed by
Artem Zolochevskiy.
- Added Hungarian language config file (`lang-hu.conf`) contributed by
Miklos Vajna.
.Bug fixes
- *FIXED:* Multiple manpage names are now handled correctly when
generating DocBook output, each name now generates a separate
DocBook `<refname>` element. See
http://groups.google.com/group/asciidoc/browse_thread/thread/c93bb4db025225d8
- *FIXED:* A problem that caused AttributeEntries preceding the header
to be overwritten when the language conf file loaded.
- *FIXED:* Possible inline macro name ambiguity e.g. link matches olink.
- *FIXED:* The documented macro definition deletion behavior had been
broken for a long time.
- *FIXED:* Email addresses not recognized when followed by a period
character.
- *FIXED:* Hyphens in mailto macros can delimit nested addresses e.g.
\bloggs@mail was processed inside
\mailto:joe-bloggs@mail-server.com[Mail].
- *FIXED:* User name in FTP URI generated incorrect FTP link. See
http://groups.google.com/group/asciidoc/browse_thread/thread/1d796a9c9ddb2855
- *FIXED:* Source highlighter now works with Wordpress backend (see
http://groups.google.com/group/asciidoc/browse_thread/thread/6d8c716748b109e3).
[[X2]]
Regression issues
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
. A colon following the date in the AsciiDoc header is treated as a
revision remark delimiter -- this could be an issue if you have used
a colon in the header date.
Version 8.4.4 (2009-04-26)

--------------------------
- Added table column and row spanning.
- Table styles can now be applied per cell.
- Vertical cell alignment can be applied to columns and individual
cells.
- Added table 'align' attribute to set horizontal alignment for entire
table.
- Included Geoff Eddy's update of the experimental LaTeX backend.
- A new attribute named 'trace' controls the output of diagnostic
information. If the 'trace' attribute is defined then
element-by-element diagnostic messages detailing output markup
generation are printed to stderr.
- Added 'literal' paragraph style (allows 'literal' style to be
applied to normal paragraphs).
- Deleted unused `replacements2` from `xhtml11.conf`.
- Added `replacements2` to default substitutions.
- 'testasciidoc.py': messages to 'stdout', only diffs to 'stderr'.
- Added transparency to `smallnew.png` image.
.Bug fixes
- All combinations of leading comments and attribute entries at the
start of a document are now skipped correctly.
- *FIXED:* `./configure` doesn't support `--docdir` as expected (patch
submitted by Artem Zolochevskiy)
- *FIXED:* Constrained quotes were incorrectly matched across line
boundaries e.g. the string `+\nabc+` incorrectly matched a monospace
quote.
Version 8.4.3 (2009-04-13)

--------------------------
- DocBook outputs default to DocBook version 4.5 doctype (previously
4.2).
- Configuration file `[specialsections]` definitions can be undefined
by setting their configuration entry values blank.
- The Makefile 'install' target depends on the 'all' target to ensure
pre-install patches are applied.
- 'testasciidoc.py' now emits user friendly messages if:
. the configuration file is missing.
. an illegal backend is specified.
. an illegal test number is specified.
.Bug fixes
- Fixed
http://groups.google.com/group/asciidoc/browse_thread/thread/fd27add515597c06[missi
ng
template section] error.
- The 'testasciidoc.py' `--force` option no longer deletes test data
files that were not specified.
- Dropped second quotes substitution in table cells -- it had
effectively disabled quote escaping in table cells.
Version 8.4.2 (2009-03-19)

--------------------------
- Added {website}testasciidoc.html[testasciidoc], a tool to verify
AsciiDoc conformance.
- A warning is issued if nested inline passthroughs are encountered.
- 'asciidocapi': setting an attribute value to `None` will undefine
(delete) the attribute (this in addition to the `name!` attribute
name format that the àsciidoc(1)` command uses).
.Bug fixes
Version 8.4.1 (2009-03-10)

--------------------------
- AsciiDoc now has a {website}asciidocapi.html[Python API]. The
following minimal example compiles `mydoc.txt` to `mydoc.html`:
+
[source,python]
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
from asciidocapi import AsciiDocAPI asciidoc = AsciiDocAPI()
asciidoc.execute('mydoc.txt')
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- Backtick quoting for monospaced text is now implemented as an

'inline literal' passthrough. This makes more sense since monospace
text is usually intended to be rendered literally. See
<<X2,Regression issues>> below for the impact this may have on
existing documents. Here are some examples that would previously
have had to be escaped:
The `++i` and `++j` auto-increments.

Paths `~/.vim` and `~/docs`.
The `__init__` method.
The `{id}` attribute.
- Added `--doctest` option to àsciidoc(1)` command.

- Added an optional second argument to 'BlockId' element, this sets
the `{reftext}` attribute which in turn is used to set the `xreflabel`
attribute in DocBook elements.
- Added lists to `--help` syntax summary.
- `{infile}` and `{indir}` attributes reflect the current input file
(previously always referred to the root document).
- `{docfile}` (new) and `{docdir}` (previously deprecated) attributes
refer to the root document specified on the àsciidoc(1)`
command-line.
- Vim syntax highlighter improvements.
- Syntax summary command (àsciidoc -h syntax`) additions.
- Admonition icons now have transparent backgrounds.
- Changed yellow W3C badges to blue ones in page footers.
.Bug fixes
- Dropped àsciidoc(1)` broken undocumented `--profile` option.
- Em dash replacement now recognized at start of block.
Regression issues
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Replacing backtick quoting with the 'inline literal' passthrough
raises two regression scenarios for existing documents:
1. You have escaped the expansion of enclosed inline elements, for

example: `\{id}`. You would need to delete the backslashes: `{id}`
(if you don't the backslashes will be printed). Mostly it's just a
case of interactively finding and replacing of all occurrences of
`\.
2. There are enclosed inline elements, for example: `some *bold*

monospaced`. You would need to switch to plus character monospace
quoting: `+some *bold* monospaced+` (if you don't the enclosed
elements won't be expanded).
If your existing documents include these cases and you don't want to
upgrade then use the `-a no-inline-literal` command-line option,
alternatively put this in `~/.asciidoc/asciidoc.conf`:
[attributes]
no-inline-literal=
Version 8.3.5 (2009-02-02)

--------------------------
- Cached compiled regular expression delimiters (speed up 'User
Manual' compilation by 250%).
- Created distinct list definitions for each numbered list style to
allow nesting of all styles.
- Roman numbers in numbered lists are followed by a closing
parenthesis instead of a period to eliminate 'i', 'v', 'x' item
ambiguity with respect to alpha numbered list items.
- Added `**`, `***`, `****`, `*****`
bulleted lists.
- Added `...`, `....`, `.....` implicit numbered
lists.
- Added `:::`, `::::` labeled lists.
- Updated User Guide for new list syntaxes.
- Optimized paragraph and list termination detection with separate
precompiled regular expressions for performance and to prevent
reaching Python 100 named group limit.
- Updated Vim syntax highlighter for new list syntaxes.
- Allow `template::[]` macros in conf file entries sections (not just
in template sections).
- Dropped unused `[listdef-numbered2]` conf file sections.
- Renamed 'ListBlock' to more appropriate 'OpenBlock'.
- Implemented single-line versions of ìfdef::[]` and ìfndef::[]`
macros.
- 'html4' backend styling:
* Underlined admonition captions.
* Added side border to Example Blocks.
- 'xhtml11' backend styling:
* Dropped right hand margin from all but quote and verse blocks.
* html4 backend: corrected over-sized width of caption in admonition
block.
.Bug fixes
- Fixed broken numbered list nesting.
Compatibility issues
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
The roman numbered list parenthesis syntax is incompatible with the
potentially ambiguous roman period syntax introduced in 8.3.2.
Version 8.3.4 (2009-01-20)

--------------------------
- Implemented a title 'float' style. A floating title (or bridgehead)
is rendered just like a normal section but is not formally
associated with a text body and is not part of the regular section
hierarchy so the normal ordering rules do not apply.
- Implemented inline comment macro so comment lines can now appear
inside block elements.
- Comment lines are sent to the output if the 'showcomments' attribute
is defined (comment blocks are never sent to the output).
- Single quoting attribute values in 'AttributeList' elements causes
them to be substituted like normal inline text (without single
quoting only attribute substitution is performed).
- Rewrote list item processing (was very crufty). List continuation
and list blocks now work as expected. Updated and clarified list
documentation in User Guide.
- The 'revision' attribute now recognizes the RCS $Id$ marker format.
- An RCS $Id$ marker formatted revision line in the header does not
need to be preceded by an author line.
- If an RCS $Id$ formatted revision is specified and the author name
has not already been set then the author name in the $Id$ marker
will be used.
- Updated Gouichi Iisaka's Graphviz filter to version 1.1.3.
- Added 'autowidth' table attribute option for (X)HTML outputs.
- DocBook backend now puts 'orgname' optional attribute in DocBook
header.
- Deprecated undocumented 'companyname' attribute in favor of
DocBook's 'corpname'.
- Removed explicit closing backslash from HTML4 self-closing tags to
comply with WC3 recommendation.
.Bug fixes
- Fixed 8.3.3 regression whereby adjacent lists with the same syntax
but different list styles were incorrectly treated as a single list.
Version 8.3.3 (2009-01-02)

--------------------------
This release supersedes 8.3.2.
.Bug fixes
- The broken and confusing numeration and numeration2 numbered list
attributes have been dropped, use the style attribute instead.
Version 8.3.2 (2009-01-01)

--------------------------
- Added Gouichi Iisaka's Graphviz filter to distribution.
- The 'SidebarBlock' element can now be rendered with an 'abstract'
style.
- Reorganized filters into a separate subdirectory for each filter.
- Updated `Makefile.in` and `MANIFEST` files to reflect new filters
organization.
- Added 'listing' style to 'LiteralBlock' element so listings with
nested listing blocks can be rendered as a listing block.
- Changed example 'code' filter to use preferred 'ListingBlock' syntax
(the old `~` delimited filter syntax is no longer used).
- Implemented 'enumeration' and 'enumeration2' numbered list
attributes for specifying the list numbering style ('arabic',
'loweralpha', 'upperalpha', 'lowerroman' and 'upperroman').
- AsciiDoc now recognizes 'upperalpha', 'lowerroman' and 'upperroman'
numbers in `listdef-numbered2` numbered lists and sets the number
style based on the style of the first numbered list item
(alternative to setting 'enumeration2' attribute).
- Updated `formatlistpat` definition in `.vimrc` example in User
Guide.
- You can now backslash escape system block macros.
- Added 'Pychart' FAQ.
- Drop paragraph 'text' and list 'text', 'index' and 'label' match
groups from attributes -- they are included in the element's text
and we don't want them processed a second time as attributes.
- Changed comment line block macro to a passthrough block macro to
ensure no substitutions.
- A 'subslist' no longer has to be appended to a 'PassthroughBlock'
macro definition, if omitted no substitutions are performed.
- Code tidy up: replaced deprecated `<>` operator with `!=`.
- Removed unused linuxdoc code.
- Code tidy ups: dropped old types module reference; replaced
`has_key()` with preferred ìn` operator.
.Bug fixes
- Old syntax source highlight filter regression: special characters
where not escaped in DocBook outputs.
Version 8.3.1 (2008-12-14)

--------------------------
- Replaced the ìnstall.sh` script with Ben Walton's updated autoconf
scripts -- see {website}INSTALL.html[INSTALL] for details.
- Added a generalized 'AttributeEntry' syntax to allow arbitrary
configuration file entries to be set from within an AsciiDoc
document (suggested by Henrik Maier).
- Listing delimited blocks in DocBook outputs now support IDs; IDs of
titled Listing and Literal delimited blocks have been moved to the
enclosing DocBook example tag (thanks to Vijay Kumar for this
patch).
- Replaced vertical typewriter apostrophe with punctuation apostrophe
(thanks to Noah Slater).
.Bug fixes
- Regression: Excluding double-quotes from unquoted attribute values
resulted in backward incompatibility, double-quotes in unquoted
attribute values has been reinstated.
- Regression: Text like `&...;` was sometimes mistaken for an entity
reference -- tightened up entity reference matching.
Version 8.3.0 (2008-11-29)

--------------------------
- {website}newtables.html[AsciiDoc new tables] is a complete redesign
of the tables syntax and generation. The new syntax and features are
a huge improvement over the old tables. The old tables syntax has
been deprecated but is currently still processed.
- {website}newlists.html[Lists can now be styled] like other block
elements. This allows a single list syntax for 'glossary', 'qanda'
(Question and Answer) and 'bibliography' lists instead of having to
remember a different syntax for each type.
- Inline passthroughs macros have been improved and block passthrough
macros added. Attribute substitution can be optionally specified
when the macro is called.
- The passthrough block has a fully transparent passthrough delimited
block block style called 'pass'.
- The 'asciimath' and 'latexmath'
{website}userguide.html#X77[passthrough macros] along with
'asciimath' and 'latexmath' {website}userguide.html#X76[passthrough
blocks] provide a (backend dependent) mechanism for rendering
mathematical formulas. There are {website}latexmath.pdf[LaTeX Math],
{website}asciimathml.html[AsciiMathML] and
{website}latexmathml.html[LaTeXMathML] examples on the AsciiDoc
website.
- Reimplemented and cleaned up filter processing based on a patch
submitted by Kelly Anderson. Uses the newer subprocess module
instead of the deprecated popen2 module. Now works in Win32 command
shell.
- Addition FAQs, more documentation updates.
- Arbitrary HTML/XML entities can be entered in AsciiDoc source.
- Did away with the need for the `shaded-literallayout.patch` (thanks
to Henrik Maier for this patch).
- Implemented 'page break' block macro.
- Added 'line breaks' and 'ruler' processing instructions to DocBook
outputs (thanks to Henrik Maier for this patch).
- Added 'deg' (degree) and 'wj' (word joiner) entity attributes
(thanks to Henrik Maier).
- Tweaked DocBook 'indexterm2' macro to avoid white space preceding
the term when used in table cells (thanks to Henrik Maier for this
patch).
- Title elements now process the 'options' attribute like other block
elements.
- Added `single quoted' element.
- Spaces on both sides of a -- em-dash are translated to thin space
characters.
- Improved detection and reporting of malformed attribute lists.
- The list 'compact' style is now a list option.
- Added 'strong' labeled list option which makes the labels bold (HTML
outputs only).
- Dropped unsupported 'linuxdoc' backend.
- Dropped deprecated 'xhtml-deprecated' (version 6) backend.
- Added 'breakable' and 'unbreakable' attribute options to tables to
control table breaking across page boundaries (DocBook XSL/FO
outputs). By and in collaboration with Henrik Maier.
- Added 'pgwide' attribute option to tables to table, block image,
horizontal labeled lists. Specifies that the element should be
rendered across the full text width of the page irrespective of the
current indentation (DocBook XSL/FO outputs). Thanks to Henrik Maier
for this patch.
- Vim syntax highlighter: spaces before/after bullets no longer
highlighted (which is ugly if using a theme that highlights with
underlines). Thanks to Donald Chai for this patch.
- Added à2x(1)` `--fop` option.
- Added à2x(1)` `--no-xmllint` option.
- Highlighted labelled list terms with the navy color in XHTML
outputs.
- Use `w3m(1)` as default à2x(1)` text format generator (fallback to
`lynx(1)`).
- Changed callout formats in html4 and xhtml11 outputs to angle
brackets to match source highlighter rendering.
- Macros now inject user defined `<optionname>-option` attributes into
markup.
- Added IRC URLs to AsciiDoc inline macros.
- Added `depth` attribute to ìnclude::[]` system macro.
- Added 'footnoteref' inline macro.
- Added 'stylesheet' XHTML attribute to specify additional custom CSS
stylesheet.
- If a paragraph style is specified it will be added to the XHTML
'class' attribute and DocBook 'role' attribute.
- Replacements can be set in a document using the reserved
AttributeEntry name 'replacement'.
- The prefix for auto-generated section name IDs can be set with the
'idprefix' attribute.
.Bug fixes
- Escaped quote skipped over leading and trailing quote instead of
just the leading quote.
- Fixed bug that was causing false negative safe mode warnings (patch
submitted by Julien Palmas).
- Placed priority of AttributeEntry, AttributeList and BlockTitle
above Title. This ensures an AttributeEntry, AttributeList or
BlockTitle followed by a same length leading ListingBlock delimiter
is not mistaken for a two-line title.
- Vim syntax highlighter: fixed multi-line quoted text.
- Contstrained quote termination after non-space character enforced.
- Vim syntax highlighter: unterminated quoted text is no longer
highlighted.
- Vim syntax highlighter: passthroughs now exactly match AsciiDoc
semantics.
- Vim syntax highlighter: escaped quoted text, attribute references
and inline macros are not highlighted.
- Vim syntax highlighter: TODO's highlighted in CommentBlocks (thanks
to Scott Wall); non-greedy pass:[$$...$$].
- Vim syntax highlighter: Comment lines mistaken for vertical list
labels (thanks to Scott Wall).
- Vim syntax highlighter: Single unmatched $$ mistakenly highlighted
remaining text (patch contributed by Scott Wall).
- Callouts now work in source highlighted listing generated by
dblatex.
- Fixed exception that occured if undefined attribute was present in
filter command.
- AttributeList block can now follow a paragraph without intervening
blank line.
- The include macro tabsize attribute is no longer propagated to
nested includes.
.Omissions
The following features were implemented but then but removed from this
release:
- 'pi', 'cdata' and 'comment' passthrough macros and passthrough block

styles (creeping featurism, use 'pass' macros instead).
- Generic 'tag' inline macro (creeping featurism, use 'pass' macros
instead).
[[X1]]
Compatibility issues
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Version 8.3.0 has a number of backward incompatibilities with respect
to the previous 8.2.7 release:
- The old table syntax is still processed but a 'DEPRECATED' warning

is issued.
- Entity references have to be escaped with a backslash.
- You have to explicitly precede horizontal style labeled lists with
the `[horizontal]` style attribute -- by default all labeled lists
are rendered vertically.
- The list 'compact' style has been dropped and is now a list option
(use òptions="compact"` in attribute lists).
- AsciiDoc version 6 sytnax no longer supported.
- Linuxdoc been removed from the distribution.
- The unsupported experimental 'latex' backend has not been tested on
this release.
- The introduction of single-quote quoting requires that double-quote
quoting is escaped with two backslashes.
Version 8.2.7 (2008-07-04)

--------------------------
- Added `dvi`, `ps` and `tex` output format options to a2x(1).
- Added `--dblatex` option to a2x(1) so `dblatex(1)` can be used to
generate PDFs.
- Added custom `dblatex(1)` configuration files (in distribution
`./dblatex` directory) that are used by a2x(1).
- `dblatex(1)` is now used to generate the distributed PDF version of
the AsciiDoc User Guide.
- If you don't need a customized the link caption you can enter the
'http', 'https', 'ftp', 'file' URLs and email addresses without any
special macro syntax -- you get the links by just cutting and
pasting URLs and emails addresses. This also makes it easier to open
links directly form AsciiDoc source ( most editors allow you to open
URLs directly). The Vim syntax highlighter has been updated to
reflect these changes.
- Highlighted source code paragraphs have been implemented -- it's a
much more convenient way to enter short code examples (see
http://asciidoc.org/source-highlight-filter.html[the
online docs]).
- The source highlighter and music filter syntax has changed -- they
now used the ListingBlock syntax customized with 'source' and
'music' style attribute values. This follows the Paragraph styling
convention introduced by the source paragraph (previous item) and is
easier to read. The old syntax still works but has been deprecated.
- QuoteBlocks now have a 'verse' style -- you no longer have to nest a
'verse' LiteralBlock inside a QuoteBlock for verses. The 'verse'
style on the LiteralBlock has been deprecated (still works though)
and the 'style' attribute is positional attribute 1, pushing
'attribution' and 'citetitle' attributes to the right (you'll need
to insert a 'quote' attribute into your existing QuoteBlocks).
- It is no up to the DocBook processor to highlight source code syntax
in `<programlisting>` elements rather than GNU Highlighter -- this
is the correct way to handle it, plus `dblatex(1)` makes a much
better job.
- 'scaledwidth' and 'align' attributes have been added to the 'image'
macro. They apply to DocBook outputs (specifically for PDF
documents). 'scaledwidth' sets the image size as a percent of the
available page width; 'align' applies 'left', 'center' or 'right'
horizontal image justification.
- Added a2x(1) `--fop-opts=FOP_OPTS` option (patch submitted by Miklos
Vajna).
- Added a2x(1) `--dblatex-opts=DBLATEX_OPTS` option.
- Added Mikhail Yakshin's FOP 0.95 patch which fixes a long-standing
`fo.xsl` problem and allows PDF's to be generated with FOP 0.95
(previously had to use FOP 0.20.5).
- The User Guide has been updated and outdated FOP configuration and
installation sections removed.
.Bug fixes
- Fixed `stylesheets/xhtml11-manpage.css` not being included when
'linkcss' attribute was used.
- Configuration file `*-style` attributes are now dumped correctly.
- Fixed 'FAILED: malformed section entry' LaTeX backend error.
See the also the https://sharesource.org/hg/asciidoc/[AsciiDoc

repository changelog].
Version 8.2.6 (2008-04-29)

--------------------------
- Enhancements to the Vim AsciiDoc syntax highlighter, for example,
quoted text is now highlighted in titles and macro captions.
- If you define the `data-uri` intrinsic attribute images referenced
by 'image' macros will be embedded in XHTML using the
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data:_URI_scheme[data: URI scheme].
*NOTE*: Microsoft browser support for the 'data: URI scheme' is
currently limited to MSIE 8 beta 1.
- Added `toc-title` attribute to allow custom table of contents
titles.
- Added references to Alex Efros's AsciiDoc Cheatsheet to AsciiDoc
website.
- àsciidoc(1)` and à2x(1)` man pages formatted to conform to
`man-pages(7)` recommendations.
- Old code-filter syntax (pre-8.1.0) is no longer recognized so that
malformed two-line level 2 titles are no longer confused with
'code-filter' block delimiters.
- Added -> <- => <= arrow replacements from the Arrows block of
Unicode.
- Added DocBook refentry lang attribute -- patch contributed by
VMiklos.
- AttributeEntry names can now be numeric (``named macro targets'').
- Hide Table of Contents title if Table of Contents empty -- patch
contributed by Alex Efros.
- Various XHTML CSS tweaks.
- Code cleanup:
* Replaced `realpath()` with Python 2.2 òs.path.realpath()` library
function.
* Replaced old string library functions with string methods.
* Use file generators instead of `readlines()`.
* Renamed entities that shadowed builtins.
* Standardized string quoting.
* Dropped `readlines()` function.
.Bug fixes
- Fixed broken CSS for decimal ordered lists nested in alpha ordered
list, thanks to Alex Efros.
- A missing closing block delimiter now reports the opening delimiter
line number instead of the end of file line number.
- Fixed an error generated by the asciidoc `-e` option when there are
no block definitions -- patch contributed by Alejandro Mery.
- Handle both `\r\n` (as well as `\n`) line separators that may be
returned by `{sys}` attribute evaluation.
- Numbered attribute names no longer interfere with positional
attribute list values.
Version 8.2.5 (2007-11-18)

--------------------------
.Bug fixes
- Fixed exception thrown by illegal command-line arguments.
- Rolled back the 'with' warning bug fix introduced in 8.2.4 -- it was
incompatible with Python <2.5.
Version 8.2.4 (2007-11-10)

--------------------------
- You can now use the `lang` attribute to set the DocBook language
attribute.
- Attribute values can now contain attribute references.
- If the `lang` attribute is defined then configuration files named
like `lang-<lang>.conf` will be loaded automatically.
- The help file name `help-<lang>.conf` is based on the AsciiDoc
`lang` attribute, defaults to `help.conf` (English).
- Admonition, figure and table captions have been factored into a
predefined set of `caption_*` attributes. They only apply to
directly generated (X)HTML outputs (DocBook stylesheets generate
their own language specific captions based on the `lang` attribute).
- Dropped platform dependent `doc/asciidoc.chm` file from
distribution documentation formats.
.Bug fixes
- The spurious warning 'with will become a reserved keyword
in Python 2.6' has been suppressed.
Version 8.2.3 (2007-09-12)

--------------------------
- Added VMiklos's 'permalink' patch for auto-generated section IDs
(enabled by default by the `sectids` attribute).
- Added http://asciidoc.org/faq.html[FAQ] to website.
- Changed format of \{localdate} attribute to ISO 8601 (`%Y-%m-%d`).
- Added àbc2ly --beams=None` option to make `music2png.py` conform to
ABC's notion of beams.
- XHTML level 2 section headings are now styled with an underlining
border.
- XHTML links to AsciiDoc title elements are now implemented with
title ID attributes (previously separate `<a>` element targets were
generated.
- Multi-word first, middle and last names can be entered in the header
author line using the underscore as a word separator.
- The nested inline macros restriction has now been lifted, for
example you can now include links and inline images inside
footnotes.
- Help topic names can be shortened (so long as they are not
ambiguous). For example àsciidoc -hm` will print the AsciiDoc man
page.
- Added `{two_colons}` and `{two_semicolons}` attributes for
escaping labeled list ambiguity.
- If quirks mode is disabled the XHTML Mime Type is set to the
recommended àpplication/xhtml+xml` (rather than `text/html`).
.Bug fixes
- Author information is now correctly set when using attribute entries
in the header instead of an author line (previously the 'author'
attribute was not being calculated correctly and there were
attribute substitution problems).
Version 8.2.2 (2007-07-22)

--------------------------
- http://www.maths.nottingham.ac.uk/personal/drw/lm.html[LaTeXMathML]
capability has been added for users who are more familiar with or
prefer LaTeX math formulas to the
http://asciidoc.org/asciimathml.html[ASCIIMathML]
notation (thanks to Arthur Sakellariou for the patch).
- The 'source highlight' and 'code' filters now process embedded
callouts.
- Added an `--attribute=ATTRIBUTE` option to à2x(1)` for passing
attribute values to asciidoc(1) (a shortcut for `--asciidoc-opts="-a
ATTRIBUTE"`).
- Image block and inline macros prepend optional `{imagesdir}`
attribute to image link targets.
.Bug fixes
- Fixed an assertion error that occurred when a configuration file
containing an ìnclude::[]` macro was loaded using the
`--conf-file` option and the configuration file name did not
include an explicit directory path -- patch submitted by Dmitry
Potapov.
- Asciidoc titles are only converted to lower case if all characters
are upper case otherwise case is left unchanged -- patch submitted
by Dmitry Potapov.
- Added a missing check that input is not stdin before loading
configuration files from the document directory -- patch submitted
by Dmitry Potapov.
- Attribute list items must evaluate to strings, numbers or None
(previously it was possible to evaluate to other object types which
resulted in surprising attribute values).
- If an AsciiDoc document has no title an empty XHTML 1.1 'title'
element is created -- previously the 'title' element was dropped
which resulted in invalid XHTML 1.1.
- The Vim syntax file no longer highlights escaped callouts.
- The Vim syntax highlighter now correctly highlights Double-dollar
passthroughs when they enclose dollar delimited ASCIIMathML and
LaTeXMathML formulas.
Version 8.2.1 (2007-04-06)

--------------------------
- A number of improvements have been made to the Vim syntax
highlighter, for example the word C++ is no longer mistaken for the
start of an unconstrained monospace quote.
- Labeled list definitions have been tightened -- a list label can no
longer containing trailing spaces. The following example is no
longer recognized as a valid list label:
Lorum ipsum ::
+
This change implements the originally intended behavior (as per the
AsciiDoc documentation and examples) so there should be very few
compatibility issues.
.Bug fixes
Version 8.2.0 (2007-04-04)

--------------------------
- A Vim syntax file is now included in the AsciiDoc distribution
(inspired by Felix Obenhuber's àsciidoc.vim` script). You can find
it (along with a Vim filetype detection script in the distribution
`./vim/` directory (the scripts are installed automatically by the
AsciiDoc installer `./install.sh`). See 'Appendix J' of the
'AsciiDoc User Guide' for details.
- Added 'toclevel' attribute (1..4) which sets the number of title
levels reported in the table of contents. Defaults to 2 and must be
used with the 'toc' attribute. Example usage:
$ asciidoc -a toc -a toclevels=3 doc/asciidoc.txt
- Added a `listindex` attribute which is the current list item index

(1..). If this attribute appears outside a list its value is the
number of items in the most recently closed list.
- The single line titles syntax now accepts trailing suffixes -- this
syntax matches the title line syntax of a number of popular Wiki
markups.
- If a QuoteBlock has no attribution or citetitle then the DocBook
`<attribution>` element is not generated (previously generated empty
`<attribution>` element).
- If the text of a labeled list item is blank then no `texttag` is
written.
- An end of line backslash performs line continuation for horizontal
labeled list items.
- The Revision line now accommodates Subversion `$Id` markers (in
addition to CVS and RCS markers). Thanks to Tiago Sturmer Daitx for
this patch.
- Implemented à2x(1)` option `--skip-asciidoc` which allows à2x(1)`
to convert DocBook XML files not derived from AsciiDoc sources.
- If à2x(1) --doctype` option is not specified it defaults to
`manpage` if `--format=manpage` else defaults to àrticle`
(previously `--doctype` always defaulted to àrticle`).
- Added an 'External Resources' section to the
http://asciidoc.org/index.html[AsciiDoc home page].
.Bug fixes
Version 8.1.0 (2006-10-22)

--------------------------
- AsciiDoc generated XHTML documents now display a table of contents
if the 'toc' attribute is defined (JavaScript needs to be enabled
for this to work). Thanks to Troy Hanson who contributed this
feature based on a JavaScript by Mihai Bazon. I've simplified things
somewhat to match Docbook XSL Stylesheets style, see Troy's
http://tpl.sourceforge.net/userguide.html[tpl User Guide] for a
fancier layout. Use the `-a toc -a numbered` command-line options to
produce a number table of contents.
- A http://asciidoc.org/music-filter.html[music filter]
is included in the distribution `./filters/` directory. It
translates music in http://lilypond.org/[LilyPond] or
http://abcnotation.org.uk/[ABC] notation to standard classical
notation in the form of a trimmed PNG image which is inserted into
the AsciiDoc output document.
- Incorporated Paul Melis's Win32 filter patch. This workaround
allows AsciiDoc to run filters under Windows.
- Added ùninstall.sh` script.
- Rather than proliferate a confusing number of filter block
delimiters the following convention has been adopted: delimiters
belonging to DelimitedBlock filters distributed with AsciiDoc will
consist of a word (normally a noun identifying the block content)
followed by four or more tilde characters. This has necessitated
changing existing filter delimiters (the old delimiters still work
but may be deprecated in future versions):
* The example code filter block delimiter is now the word `code`
followed by four or more tilde characters.
* The source highlight filter block delimiter is now the word
`source` followed by four or more tilde characters.
- Conditionally redefined subscript and superscripting so they use the

old replacements mechanism when asciidoc7compatible is defined
rather than the asciidoc 8 default unconstrained quoting (patch for
affected files attached).
- Moved the source highlight filter from `./examples/` to `./filter/`.
- Added `{verbose}` intrinsic attribute (useful for passing verbose
flag to filters).
- Added `{outdir}` intrinsic attribute.
- Renamed `{docdir}` intrinsic attribute to unambiguous `{indir}`
(`{docdir}` still works but may be removed in future release).
- If àsciidoc(1)` outputs to stdout then intrinsic attribute
`{docname}` is extracted from the input file name.
Version 8.0.0 (2006-08-27)

--------------------------
*********************************************************************
This is a major release because changes to quoting and index entry
handling may break existing documents (see 'Additions and changes'
below and 'Appendix A: Migration Notes' in the AsciiDoc User Guide).
Please report any problems you encounter.
mailto:srackham@gmail.com['Stuart Rackham']
*********************************************************************

- Quoting can can occur within words (based on patch submitted by
Benjamin Klum). See the 'Unconstrained Quotes' sub-section in the
User Guide.
- The underline and plus characters can be used as alternatives to the

existing apostrophe and backtick quote characters. They are arguably
better choices than the apostrophe and backtick as they are not
confused with punctuation.
- The syntax for index entry macros have have been deprecated from
`+...+` and `++...++` to `((...))` and `(((...)))` respectively.
Rationale:
* Bracketing is consistent other with `[[...]]` and `<<...>>`
reference macros.
* To easily confused with triple plus passthroughs.
* To make way for the new monospace quoting.
- Superscripts and subscripts are implemented as constrained quotes so

they can now be escaped with a leading backslash and prefixed with
with an attribute list.
- An experimental LaTeX backend has been written by Benjamin Klum (a

number additions in this release are to accommodate the LaTeX
backend).
- ìnclude` macro file names now expand environment variables and
tilde expansions.
- A configuration file `[quotes]` entry can be undefined by setting to
a blank value.
- Added `callto` inline macro for Skype 'callto' links.
- Added `colnumber` attribute for table data markup.
- A leading comment block or comment lines are now skipped (previously
a document had to start with either attribute entries or a document
Title).
- Experimental `rows` attribute (number of source lines in table)
available in table markup templates (used by experimental LaTeX
backend).
- Included install shell script written by mailto:jlm@ofb.net[Jacob
Mandelson] for installing the tarball distribution.
- Added INSTALL documentation file.
- Added 'replacements2' substitution options -- a second replacements
section.
- Added the ability to redefine 'normal' and 'verbatim' substitutions
with `subsnormal` and `subsverbatim` entries in configuration file
`[miscellaneous]` section.
- By default ÀttributeEntry` values are substituted for
`specialcharacters` and àttributes`, if you want a different
AttributeEntry substitution set the àttributeentry-subs` attribute.
- The `name` in `name=value` configuration file entries can now end
with a backslash, just escape the trailing backslash with a
backslash. For example:
abc\\=xyz
+
Results in `name=abc\` and `value=xyz` -- previously this would have
escaped the `=` character.
- A blank configuration file section deletes any preceding section

with the same name (applies to non-markup template sections).
- A command-line attribute value with a `@` suffix does not override
existing document and configuration file attributes (normally
command-line attributes have precedence over document and
configuration file attributes).
- `localtime` attribute is now encoded from the native system encoding
to the output encoding. Patch submitted by
mailto:m_pupil@yahoo.com.cn[FKtPp] -- here's his description of the
problem:
+
`Ì am a Chinese user of AsciiDoc and I find that when I use UTF-8
(the default encoding) to write asciidoc documents in Windows platform
the resulting html footer line will get screwed. It was caused by a
localized tzname that was always encoded in the windows native
encoding, which in my case is 'cp936'.''
- a2x(1) can generate Open Document Text files using

http://open.comsultia.com/docbook2odf/[docbook2odf]. Currently
`docbook2odf(1)` only processes a subset of DocBook, unimplemented
elements are skipped.
- The a2x(1) format option defaults to `xhtml` (previously a format
had to be specified explicitly).
- The `-d, \--doctype=DOCTYPE` option has been added to a2x(1) which
is a shortcut for `--asciidoc-options="--doctype=DOCTYPE"`.
- Replaced a2x(1) `--no-icons` and `--no-copy` options with their
negated equivalents: `--icons` and `--copy` respectively. The
default behavior has also changed: copying and use of icons is
disabled by default. Rationale:
* To make the default behavior more consistent since use of icons
and CSS stylesheets does not apply to all formats.
* To make the default behavior less surprising (the creation of icon
and stylesheet output files must now be explicit).
- a2x(1) has been bumped from version 0.1.1 to version 1.0.0.

.Bug fixes
- Removed duplicate `./doc/a2x.1.txt` from distribution tarball.
- Documentation errata.
- Attribute replacement is no longer performed twice in Titles and
AttributeEntrys.
- a2x(1) skipped asciidoc(1) execution when rerun with different
`--asciidoc-options` options, it now always executes asciidoc(1).
The problem was that previously asciidoc(1) was executed only if the
output file was missing or older than the source file.
Version 7.1.2 (2006-03-07)

--------------------------
- Support for
http://www1.chapman.edu/~jipsen/mathml/asciimath.html[ASCIIMathML]
has been added. See 'Appendix I: ASCIIMathML Support' in the User
Guide and the examples at
http://asciidoc.org/asciimath.html.
- You can now prefix quoted text with inline attributes lists. You
can use this to set font size and color (XHTML and HTML outputs).
- Added `##...##` quoting -- it does nothing -- it's purpose is to
allow inline attributes to be applied to normal text.
- An 'inline passthrough' mechanism has been implemented.
- Configuration file comment lines can be escaped with a backslash --
this is to allows the inclusion of configuration lines that start
with a hash character.
- The `scriptsdir` attribute can be used to specify the name of the
directory containing linked JavaScripts (see the
link:userguide.html#X33[User Guide] for details.
- The BackendBlock has been renamed PassthroughBlock for consistency
with the new inline passthrough naming.
- à2x(1)` now works with the older `bash(1)` version 2.05b. Patch
submitted by mailto:francis@daoine.org[Francis Daly].
- Content included by the ìnclude1::[]` system macro is no longer
subject to attribute substitution so that ambiguities no longer
arise when used to include CSS or JavaScript files.
Version 7.1.1 (2006-02-24)

--------------------------
- The `caption` attribute can be used to customize admonition captions
as well as image, table and example block element title prefixes
(`xhtml11` and `html4` backends).
- You can now override the default icon image using the ìcon`
attribute to specify the path of the linked image (xhtml11 and html4
backends only).
- The deprecated ìmagesdir` attribute is no longer recognized (use
ìconsdir` instead).
- Added 'Appendix H: Using AsciiDoc with non-English Languages' to the
AsciiDoc User Guide.
- Added 'Admonition Icons and Captions' subsection to the User Guide
explaining how to customize Admonition elements.
.Bug fixes
- à2x(1)` failed when configuration files were installed in the
global `/etc/asciidoc/` directory -- it was only searching the
directory containing the asciidoc executable (thanks to Christian
Wiese for finding and submitting a patch this bug).
- The html4 backend admonition caption now correctly displays the
admonition `caption` attribute (previously displayed the `style`
attribute).
Version 7.1.0 (2006-01-13)

--------------------------
- à2x(1)` toolchain wrapper utility. This overcomes the biggest
hurdle for new users which seems to be assembling and using a
working DocBook XML toolchain. With à2x(1)` you can generate XHTML
(chunked and unchunked), PDF, man page, HTML Help and text file
outputs from an AsciiDoc input file with a single command. All you
need to install (in addition to AsciiDoc) is xsltproc(1), DocBook XSL
Stylesheets and optionally FOP (if you want PDF) or lynx(1) (if you
want text).
- Block titles can now start with any non-space character (previously
where not allowed to start with `.~-_` characters).
- `./stylesheets/docbook.css` renamed to
`./stylesheets/docbook-xsl.css` to clarify its function.
- Renamed `./docbook-xsl/manpages.xsl` to `./docbook-xsl/manpage.xsl`
for consistency.
- Admonition and navigation icons moved to `./images/icons/` to
clarify usage and conform with a2x(1) usage.
- Renamed xhtml11 intrinsic attribute ìmagesdir` to ìconsdir` to
keep vocab consistent and changed default value to `./images/icons`
(previously `./images`). ìmagesdir` attribute still accepted but
deprecated.
- Unused image files have been weeded out of the distribution.
- Packager notes (appendix B) have been updated to reflect the needs
of à2x(1)`.
IMPORTANT: The renaming of the xhtml11 backend ìmagesdir` intrinsic

attribute and it's new default value introduces a backward
compatibility issue: if you use the ìcons` attribute you will need to
either move your icons to the new default `./images/icons` location or
include an `--attribute{nbsp}iconsdir="your_icons_path"` option in
your asciidoc commands.
.Bug fixes
- Backslash line continuation is now observed in verbatim paragraphs.
- Fixed errors generated by example
`./examples/website/build-website.sh` script.
Version 7.0.4 (2005-12-08)

--------------------------
- Added ternary conditional attributes
`{<name>@<regexp>:<value1>[:<value2>]}` and
`{<name>$<regexp>:<value1>[:<value2>]}`.
- Safety violations now generate errors (they previously generated
warnings).
- asciidoc(1) now defaults to safe mode, consequently the
`[miscellaneous]` safe mode entry and `--safe` command-line option
are no longer necessary (though for backward compatibility
asciidoc(1) still accepts the `--safe` option).
- Backend Blocks are now flagged unsafe (they could be used to include
arbitrary and hence potentially unsafe output content).
- Filters are no longer considered unsafe. There's not much point in
insisting on filter safety since the installation of an unsafe
filter would require the introduction of new or modified
configuration files -- if your application configurations can be
compromised you're in all sorts of trouble (safe mode protects
against unsafe input files not unsafe configuration). As with all
filters, before installing, you should verify that they can't be
coerced into generating malicious output or exposing sensitive
information.
.Bug fixes
- Fixed a lot of glaring grammatical and factual errors in the User
Guide.
Version 7.0.3 (2005-12-01)

--------------------------
- Added `--safe` and `--unsafe` command-line options -- AsciiDoc can
now be executed in a 'safe mode' which disallows the execution of
arbitrary code or the inclusion of arbitrary files (see
link:userguide.html#X39[Appendix C in the AsciiDoc User Guide]).
- Included link:source-highlight-filter.html[source-highlight filter]
in the distribution `./examples/source-highlight-filter/` directory
(based on filter submitted by mailto:trolocsis@gmail.com[Ryan
Phillips]).
- Included the DocBook XSL Stylesheets 1.69.1 customizations used to
generate the distributed AsciiDoc documentation (read the
àsciidoc-docbook-xsl.txt` file in the distribution `./docbook-xsl/`
directory).
- AsciiDoc DocBook XSL Stylesheet drivers moved from `./doc/` to
`./docbook-xsl/`.
- Modified `./doc/manpages.xsl` so only URL content is displayed in
manpages.
.Bug fixes
- Explicitly set table CSS border style (`xhtml11` backend) to `solid`
because default border styles vary from browser to browser.
Version 7.0.2 (2005-08-28)

--------------------------
- There are now long versions of all AsciiDoc options.
- If the `--backend` is not specified it defaults to `xhtml11`.
- Added CSS simulated frames layout to the examples website (see
`./examples/website/layout2/README-website.txt`). This layout does
not work with IE6 and the original tables based layout is still the
default.
- Support page added to AsciiDoc website.
.Bug fixes
- Invalid options are now trapped gracefully.
- Documentation errata.
Version 7.0.1 (2005-06-24)

--------------------------
- Reverted to use of `strong`, èm`, `tt` XHTML tags -- they're more
obvious and no less correct than `span` tags, besides, the generated
file sizes are smaller (the 'User Guide' was 11% smaller).
- Table title rendered with `caption` tag rather than a separate
`div`.
- The AsciiDoc 'stylesdir' attribute (if specified) is now recognized
when searching for embedded stylesheets (previously only searched
default `./stylesheets` directory).
- Default charset encoding changed from ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8 -- it's
less language specific and displays most common languages.
- `template::[]` macros now expand in all configuration file sections
previously only in markup template sections.
- Cleaned up example website layout CSS and configuration
(presentation has not been changed).
- Refactored `xhtml11.conf` configuration file.
- Set consistent and sensible permissions on distributed files.
- White space is now stripped from DSV formatted table cell data.
- `class="tableblock"` attribute added to tables generated by
`xhtml-deprecated-css.conf` to assist CSS.
.Bug fixes
- Illegal character set encoder (specified by the AsciiDoc èncoding`
attribute) and character data are trapped gracefully.
- AsciiDoc table 'format' attribute in table attribute lists were not
recognized.
- The nested horizontal labeled list example in the 'AsciiDoc User
Guide' has been dropped -- it generated invalid DocBook markup.
Version 7.0.0 (2005-06-06)

--------------------------
***************************************************
This is a major release with many code and
documentation changes.
Please report any problems you encounter.
***************************************************

- A new 'xhtml11' backend generates XHTML 1.1 with integrated CSS2
replacing the previous 'xhtml', 'css', and 'css-embedded' backends.
- The CSS stylesheets have finally been rewritten.
- The asciidoc(1) command help now includes user
link:userguide.html#X36[customizable help] topics. When asciidoc is
invoked with the `--help` option the command argument is
interpreted as a help topic.
- The previous example website has been replaced by the actual
AsciiDoc website (see `./examples/website/`.
- XHTML generation options now controlled by the following attributes:
'badges', 'linkcss', 'icons', 'numbered', 'quirks', 'theme',
'stylesdir', 'imagesdir' (see the link:userguide.html#X33[User
Guide] for details.
- By default HTML and XHTML are output as stand-alone documents (no
embedded CSS and no linked admonition icon images).
- Documents encoded with the UTF-8 Unicode character set are now
processed thanks to a patch supplied by
mailto:viktor@rbg.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de[Viktor Vasilev].
- The `-a ^name` command-line syntax to undefine an attribute has been
deprecated in favor of the `-a name!` syntax.
- AttributeEntry syntax addition: `:name!:` to undefine `name` attribute.
- Added `template` system block macro to allow the inclusion of one
configuration file template section within another.
- A 'verse' style attribute can now be applied to literal paragraphs
and blocks to reproduce line breaks and white space from the source
document.
- Replacements and Special Words can now be escaped with leading
backslashes.
- Replacements are now processed in configuration file order (previous
ordering was indeterminate).
- System macros can now be used in the base àsciidoc.conf`
configuration file.
- Deprecated features that emitted warnings in prior versions are no
longer tolerated.
- The èval` system attribute expression evaluates to `False` the
attribute is undefined, if it evaluates to `True` the result is an
empty string.
- The Paragraph and DelimitedBlock 'presubs' parameter can be aliased
as 'subs'.
- Added 'verbatim' substitutions option.
- Renamed 'List Continuation Block' to 'List Block' and renamed the
'listcontinuation' option to 'list'.
- Deprecated 'default' substitutions option (use 'normal' instead).
- The 'section-numbers' section numbering attribute has be renamed
'numbered'.
- Dropped the '\#UNDER CONSTRUCTION#' block macro.
- Rewrote Paragraph and DelimitedBlock handlers adding a
link:userguide.html#X23[styles] configuration entry.
.Bug fixes
- Included files are no longer read inside conditionally excluded
content.
- Manpage command names containing dashes (in the manpage NAME
section) were misinterpreted as the spaced dash command name/purpose
separator. Bug report and patch supplied by
mailto:david@dgreaves.com[David Greaves].
- Unexpected error following malformed author line error.
Version 6.0.3 (2005-04-20)

--------------------------
- Special characters are now substituted in AttributeEntry element
values.
- Spaced and unspaced em dashes are now recognized (previously only
spaced em dashes were recognized).
- Replaced the table 'noborders' option with richer 'frame' and 'grid'
attributes.
- The `duplicate macro` warning message now only occurs when the
verbose (`-v`) option is enabled.
- Single lines starting with two forward slashes hard up against the
left margin are treated as comments and are not processed.
- Renamed 'section' delimited block option to 'sectionbody' to more
accurately reflect it's role.
- Added a List Continuation block -- a specialized delimited block
that is functionally equivalent to the List Item Continuation
feature except that the list contained within the block does not
require explicit '+' list item continuation lines.
- Dropped deprecated `<u>` tags from generated HTML.
- Literal Block delimiters must now consist of at least four points
(previously three) to avoid lone ellipsis ambiguity.
.Bug fixes
- Some system attribute evaluation failures caused unexpected
exceptions to occur.
Version 6.0.2 (2005-03-30)

--------------------------
- Three new 'system' block macros have been added -- èval`, `sys` and
`sys2` which are the block macro equivalents to the same named
system attributes.
- 'Intrinsic' macros have been renamed 'system' macros along with
'action' attributes which have been renamed 'system' attributes:
* To reflect their common (though contextually different) behavior.
* To avoid confusion with 'intrinsic attributes'.
.Bug fixes
- Asciidoc now searches in `/etc/asciidoc/filters` for filters.
Version 6.0.1 (2005-03-06)

--------------------------
- A global configuration file location `/etc/asciidoc` has been added
and is now processed before all other locations (patch supplied by
mailto:stone@debian.org[Fredrik Steen]).
- Recoded `tempfile.mktemp()` and other artifacts that are no longer
necessary or desirable (patches supplied by
mailto:stone@debian.org[Fredrik Steen]).
- Added BUGS file to the distribution.
.Bug fixes
- Illegal comment syntax in `css-embedded-stylesheet.conf` resulted in
illegal CSS in files generated by the `css-embedded` backend.
Version 6.0.0 (2005-01-28)

--------------------------
***************************************************
This release has had some fairly major code and
documentation changes. Please report any problems
you encounter.
***************************************************
A lot of new stuff. A new major version number -- some regression

incompatibility (hopefully mitigated by 'deprecated' warnings).
Went mad trying to rein in the current feature anarchy -- established

a unified notion of document attributes. Attempted to introduce a
consistent vocabulary -- renamed many poorly or inconsistently named
entities.
Actually, deprecated syntax is still processed correctly in almost all
cases. One source of incompatibility that may arise if you have
customized CSS stylesheets is the change of AsciiDoc CSS class names
(see below). I guess the moral is if you've done a lot of
configuration file customization and are happy with version 5 then you
may want to stay put.
NOTE: This version requires Python 2.3 or better to run.

- 'Glossary entries' have been renamed 'attributes'. This eliminates
confusion with the accepted meaning of glossary.
- An ÀttributeEntry` block element has been added so that document
attributes can be assigned from within an AsciiDoc document.
- The ÀttributeList` block element has been added which is a more
general solution than the (now deprecated) DelimitedBlock arguments.
- An BlockId element has been added for setting block element anchor
(link target) IDs.
- Quoted text can now span multiple lines (thanks to James Bowlin for
this patch).
- Inline macros can now span multiple lines.
- \``double backtick / apostrophe'' quotes generate ``curly quotes''.
- A warning is now emitted for out of order list item (applies to
explicitly enumerated numbered list items).
- Added ìnclude` action attribute.
- A line of three or more apostrophes generates an HTML horizontal
ruler (`<hr/>` tag). You will get a warning if processed with
non-HTML backend.
- An `{imagesdir}` attribute specifies image file location for images
referenced in configuration files when generating HTML (the default
location is ìmages`).
- An `{stylesdir}` attribute specifies the location of CSS
stylesheets when generating styled HTML (the default location for
configured markup is `.`).
- The use of the (often inappropriately named) `{caption}` attribute
list entry has been deprecated, use `{0}` instead.
- New 'ExampleBlock' delimited block along with associated variants
Note, Tip, Warning, Caution and Important.
- The `docbook.conf` file now facilitates the optional inclusion of a
DocBook revision history file.
- To better reflect their purpose the following block elements have
been renamed: `VerbatimBlock` to `ListingBlock`; ÌndentedBlock` to
`LiteralBlock`; ÌndentedParagraph` to `LiteralParagraph`;
`CustomBlock` to `BackendBlock`; `SimpleSection` to `SectionBody`.
Any corresponding CSS class names have also been changed which could
result in backward incompatibility in customized stylesheets.
- Swapped plain DocBook admonition icons for Jimmac's DocBook icons
(http://jimmac.musichall.cz/ikony.php3). The original plain icons
have been moved to `./images/plain`.
- Renamed `html` backend to `xhtml` to better reflect it's function
(former `html-4` backend renamed to `html`).
- A new inline anchor macro syntax `[[[<id>]]]` is available, it
displays `[<id>]` at the anchor location and is for anchoring
bibliography list entries.
- An optional 'single-line titles' syntax can be used.
- Tweaks to distributed CSS stylesheets and FOP `fo.xsl` customization
file.
- 'List Item Continuation' has been implemented which allows
additional block elements to be included in list items by separating
them from the preceding list item element with a line containing a
single plus character.
- A new 'Horizontal Labeled List' list type has been added. Generates
two column list -- the first column contains the list element
labels, the second contains the element text. Same syntax as
`Vertical Labeled Lists` except the double colon label suffix is
followed by the start of the list item text.
.Bug fixes
- Fixed broken backslash line continuation.
- Labeled list end tags were not undergoing attribute substitution.
- Documents without any author information now generate legitimate
DocBook (previously if the author line was not included in the
document header then an empty (illegal) DocBook àuthor` element was
generated).
- Multiple spaces in filter command arguments were replaced by a
single space. The `./examples/asciidoc2text/asciidoc2text.sh` script
now indents text correctly.
Version 5.1.1 (2004-10-10)

--------------------------
*15-December-2004: Interim update:* Updated àsciidoc.py` to fix
broken `join_lines` function -- no other changes.
- PDF documentation is now produced from DocBook XML using XSLTLib and
FOP. Previously we processed DocBook SGML with `jw(1)` (which used
Dvips to convert DVI files to PDF). FOP has come a long way in the
last 12 months and produces very acceptable PDF under both Linux and
Windows.
- Sections detailing how to install and use the DocBook XSL
Stylesheets, xsltproc, FOP toolchain and the AsciiDoc XSLT drivers
have been added to the User Guide.
- The PDF output from the he example article template has been
included in the distribution (`./doc/article.pdf`).
- Special characters are emitted using decimal Unicode character codes
(previously used named character entities which cannot be assumed
included in non-HTML documents).
- Added registered trademark (R) to `[replacements]`.
- CSS stylesheet tweaks.
- Admonitions (Note, Tip, Important, Warning, Caution) include icons
when generating css output.
Version 5.1.0 (2004-09-18)

--------------------------
- Callouts have been implemented (see the 'Callouts' section of the
AsciiDoc User Guide for details).
- Added XSL drivers for generating XHTML, chunked XHTML and HTML Help
from DocBook XML using XSL stylesheets and xsltproc(1).
- Added CSS stylesheet for HTML generated from DocBook XML using XSL
stylesheets.
- Distribution contains HTML Help formatted User Guide
(`./doc/asciidoc.chm`), the User Guide tells you how it's generated.
- Images referred to by distributed stylesheets are now located in the
`./images` subdirectory (previously located in `.`).
- Filters path names are now handled properly under Cygwin.
- The usual documentation and examples additions, updates and
polishing.
Version 5.0.9 (2004-09-09)
--------------------------
- The convention of using a `.asc` file extension for AsciiDoc files
has been dropped in favor of the familiar `.txt` extension. It makes
more sense in that AsciiDoc is a text presentation format and
because `.asc` clashed with the same extension used by other
applications. It's only a naming convention -- you don't have to
switch if you don't want to.
- Changed the subscript formatting character from underline to tilde
since underscores in file names are reasonably common (especially in
link and image macros).
- An alternative syntax for the index term inline macro has been
added: `++<primary>,<secondary>,<tertiary>++`.
- Index terms that have secondary and tertiary entries now
additionally generate separate index terms for the secondary and
tertiary entries.
- A `+<primary>+` index term inline macro has been added which
displays the term in the primary text flow.
- Added alternative variable list definition using double semi-colon
terminator as opposed to the standard double colon terminator so
variable lists can be nested to two levels.
- Footnotes now appear on a separate line in HTML and Linuxdoc
outputs.
- Python version compatibility is checked at startup.
- Preface and appendix section titles in multi-part Book documents are
meant to be out of sequence -- warnings are no longer emitted when
outputting HTML.
- Empty section warnings have been replaced by error messages and are
emitted only if invalid markup would result.
- Missing macro sections or invalid macro name warnings are only
generated at startup if the `-v` (verbose) option is set. Otherwise
they are deferred until a matching macro is encountered in the input
file.
- Missing or invalid table definition warnings are only generated at
startup if the `-v` (verbose) option is set. Otherwise they are
deferred until a matching table is encountered in the input file.
- AsciiDoc now makes more of an effort to continue in the face of
errors.
- Fixed broken `./examples/website/main.aap` script.
- Converted distribution text files DOS text format as a sop to
Windows users with challenged text editors.
- Documentation additions and corrections.
Version 5.0.8 (2004-05-15)

--------------------------
- Spurious 'out of sequence' level 2 warnings no longer appear when
processing 'book' document multi-part book top level Preface and
Appendix sub-sections since they are (correctly) out of sequence.
- A warning is no longer emitted for empty Index sections since this
is normal when generating DocBook outputs.
- Fixed: `[quotes]` configuration file entries where not being
overridden by downstream configuration file entries.
- Footnote text is now output enclosed in square brackets in HTML
documents.
- Added superscripts and subscripts to the standard PRS configuration
files.
- Adjusted CSS stylesheets so list titles don't have so much space
between title and first list item (broken in IE6 due to poor CSS
compliance). Lessened sidebar title top margin.
Version 5.0.7 (2004-04-22)

--------------------------
- The version 5.0.6 README incorrectly stated that AsciiDoc would run
under Python 2.0, in fact it requires Python 2.1 or better. The
README has been corrected.
- Documented techniques for combining and splitting AsciiDoc documents
and processing the combined and split parts (see the 'Tips and
Tricks' section of the User Guide).
- An example of marking up superscripts and subscripts is documented
in the 'Tips and Tricks' section of the User Guide (the example
configuration file is in the AsciiDoc èxamples` directory).
- Added ellipsis to shipped `[replacements]`; three periods output an
ellipsis entity.
- Removed unused 'SectionClose' class.
- The AsciiDoc 'Preamble' element is output as a DocBook 'Preface'
when processed as a 'book' document type (in older AsciiDoc versions
a warning was issued and processing stopped).
- Fixed a quoting anomaly: quoted text can no longer begin or end with
with white space.
Version 5.0.6 (2004-03-07)

--------------------------
- New 'image' macro implements optional image scaling and linking and
works in both inline and block contexts. The 'image' macro obsolesces
the existing 'graphic' block macro and 'icon' inline macro.
- Macro substitution section names now have `-inlinemacro` and
`-blockmacro` suffixes to resolve context ambiguity, make their
purpose clearer and relieve section namespace congestion.
- Header derived glossary entries can now be overridden from the
command-line.
- Special character substitution is now performed on AuthorLine
derived author names.
- A macro or block argument called 'options' can be used as a shortcut
for a list named arguments with zero length string values.
- Tables can be output without borders using the òptions="noborders"`
argument.
- Table data lines that do not immediately follow a table section
underline can now be blank. This allows CSV data with embedded blank
lines to be processed correctly.
- Blank DSV format table data lines are silently skipped.
- Tightened up on enforcement of configuration file section names to
reduce the possibility of section content being seen as a section
header line.
- Section titles can be optionally suffixed with title arguments
enclosed in double square brackets.
- A replacement has been added to àsciidoc.conf` to replace inline
double dashes with the `—` entity.
- Changed the `.UNDER-CONSTRUCTION.` macro syntax to
`#UNDER-CONSTRUCTION#` so it is not mistaken for a BlockTitle.
Similarly changed the `.NEW.` replacement with
`#NEW#`.
- `#NEW#` and `#UNDER-CONSTRUCTION#` macros are now
included in the DocBook backend.
- Replaced shipped `smallnew.gif` with `smallnew.png`.
- Documentation tidy ups.
Version 5.0.5 (2004-02-25)

--------------------------
- Fixed the disappearing paragraph titles problem that was caused by
Inline macros (incorrectly) processing BlockTitles.
- Tightened AuthorLine validation. Previously invalid email addresses
and embedded special characters in the AuthorLine resulted in
invalid output markup.
Version 5.0.4 (2004-02-09)

--------------------------
- Reinstated missing ìnfile`, òutfile`, `filetype` and
`filetype-<filetype>` glossary entries.
- As of version 5.0.3 asciidoc(1) now requires Python 2.0 or greater,
this has now been documented.
Version 5.0.3 (2004-01-23)

--------------------------
- Fixed problem that caused any filters directory file containing
`.conf` (not just those with the `.conf` extension) from being
loaded.
- All `[miscellaneous]` configuration file entries can now be
referenced like glossary entries (they are now processed internally
as glossary entries).
- The output file line terminator (previously hardwired to `\r\n` is
now set using the `newline` entry in the configuration file
`[miscellaneous]` section.
- The misspelt `blocktitles` configuration file entry name has been
corrected (to `blocktitle`).
- An `{empty}` glossary entry has been added to the default
configuration which is useful for outputting trailing blank lines
from configuration file substitution sections.
Version 5.0.2 (2003-12-18)

--------------------------
- New (alternative) 'anchor' and 'xref' macro syntax (old syntax still
valid).
- DocBook `mediaobject` and ìnlinemediaobject` tags are generated in
place of `graphic` and ìnlinegraphic` tags by the AsciiDoc
`graphic` and ìcon` macros. If a macro argument is specified it is
the alternative text output if the target document format does not
support the specified graphic file format.
- Dropped the LinuxDoc left and right square bracket special character
substitutions as they interfered with macro substitution.
- Documentation updates and corrections.
Version 5.0.1 (2003-12-09)

--------------------------
- Fixed problem with anchor tag when generating CSS styled HTML.
Version 5.0 (2003-12-08)

------------------------
***************************************************
you encounter.
***************************************************
- AsciiDoc can now produce a full-blown multi-part DocBook book

including dedication, abstract, preface, colophon, glossary,
appendix, bibliography and book part elements using the new
`specialsections` configuration file section.
- All Section element children (Paragraph, DelimitedBlock, List,
Table, BlockMacro) can now be titled using the BlockTitle element.
A BlockTitle element is a single line containing a title and
beginning with a period.
- The ìndex` and `backmatter` macros have been dropped, superseded by
`specialsections`.
- The AsciiDoc 'Preface' element has been renamed 'Preamble' (to avoid
confusion with the DocBook book preface element).
- Out of sequence titles are now tolerated with a warning. This allows
book document level 0 sections to be processed.
- An 'anchor' inline macro has been added for document link target
creation.
- 'Note', 'Tip', 'Important' and 'Warning' paragraph types have been
added to support the corresponding DocBook elements.
- Title substitution is now performed in SidebarBlock titles.
- DocBook graphics now output as `figure` and ìnformalfigure`
elements rather than `mediaobjects`. This ensures numbered figures
and a lists of figures are produced by the DocBook toolchain.
- You can now escape block argument lines by appending a backslash.
Alternatively, if you embed arguments in the delimiter line AsciiDoc
does not check for an arguments line.
- The default DocBook backend file extension has been changed from
`.docbook` to `.xml` (`.sgml` for the 'docbook-sgml' backend).
- Warnings are output by default (previously they only printed when
verbose option enabled).
- A Question and Answer variable list definition has been added to the
shipped configuration files, primarily to create DocBook `qanda`
DocBook elements.
- Fixed broken code-filter `-b linuxdoc` option. The asciidoc.asc User
Guide can now be processed by linuxdoc(1) (although tables are
dropped because LinuxDoc does not implement tables).
.Compatibility issues:
1. Table titles are no longer in the arguments line, use the new
BlockTitles.
2. Graphic titles are no longer in the 'graphic' block macro caption,
use the new BlockTitles.
3. The code-filter title must be placed in a preceding BlockTitle.
4. SidebarBlock titles must be placed in a preceding BlockTitle.
5. The DelimitedBlock option 'sidebar' has been renamed to 'section'.
6. The default DocBook backend file extension has been changed from
`.docbook` to `.xml` (`.sgml` for the 'docbook-sgml' backend).
Version 4.2 (2003-11-26)

------------------------
- The default HTML output is now XHTML 1.0 markup. To output the
former HTML 4 markup specify the `html-4` backend.
- The default DocBook output is now DocBook XML. To output the former
DocBook SGML specify the `docbook-sgml` backend. The associated
`docbook-sgml.conf` file illustrates how to support minor DTD
variations. Examples of using the `xmlto(1)` command for DocBook
conversion have been added to the User Guide.
- Glossary entries set using the command-line -g option can now be
referenced in configuration files.
- Configuration dumps (`-c` command-line option) no longer output
redundant undefined glossary entries.
- DelimitedBlock arguments can now be specified in a separate arguments
line immediately following the leading delimiter line, This is in
preference to the existing delimiter embedded arguments. Reasons:
* The syntax is in keeping with the Tables arguments syntax.
* It's easier to enter and implements line continuation.
- A new QuoteBlock DelimitedBlock definition has been added to the
distribution configuration files.
- The table arguments lines can be continued using the backslash line
continuation character.
- Added new calculated glossary reference type `{<name>%<value>}`.
- Double-quote characters can now appear in unquoted positional
arguments.
Version 4.1 (2003-11-13)

------------------------
- Added DSV (Delimiter Separated Values) tables format.
- `{eval:<expr>}` glossary references drop the containing line if
`<expr>` evaluates to `None`.
- Block, Table and Macro arguments can now be positional (quoted or
unquoted).
- Vocabulary change: DelimitedBlock, Table and Macro 'attributes' are
now referred to as 'arguments'. This makes more sense in light of the
extended syntax and avoids confusion with backend markup tag
attributes.
- 'tablewidth' table ruler parameter can now be expressed in percent
units (0..100). If between 0 and 1 then the original fractional unit
measure is applied.
- The use of quoting for generating footnotes and index entries has
been dropped in favor of 'footnote' and 'indexterm' inline macros.
- 'backmatter' inline macro included in distribution.
- Fixed: CSS styled HTML tables are now fully XHTML 1.0 conformant.
- Fixed: 'tablewidth' was processed incorrectly when passed as table
argument.
- Fixed: Glossary references like `{x=\{y}}` were one character off
if \{x] was defined and `{y}` was not.
Version 4.0 (2003-11-08)

------------------------
***************************************************
you encounter.
'Stuart Rackham'
***************************************************
- Added tables to AsciiDoc.
- Added two special 'subs' options: 'default' specifies the default
substitution options and 'none' specifies no substitution. These
options can only appear singly.
- Line continuation using a trailing backslash character is available
in Paragraphs, ListItems, Tables.
- The left and right quotes for quoted text can now be specified
separately.
- Shipped configuration files implement footnotes (only useful for
DocBook output) using \[[]] quoting.
- Shipped configuration files implement index terms (only useful for
DocBook and LinuxDoc output) using \(()) quoting.
- The shipped 'html' backend configuration now emits valid 'HTML 4.01
Transitional'.
- Added new calculated glossary reference types `{<name>!<value>}`
and `{<name>#<value>}`.
- The DelimitedBlock 'params' option has been dropped in favor of the
new 'block attributes' mechanism. If you have customized block
params options you may need to adjust source files to use the
'block attributes' syntax. The example code filter has been updated
to reflect these changes.
- The code filter now has a `-t tabsize` option.
- Replaced `-w` option with `-v` (verbose) option. The warnings option
was just to confusing.
- Named attributes can now be specified in macro calls.
- The 'tabsize' attribute is recognized in the built-in ìnclude`
macros. A tabsize of zero suppresses tab expansion.
- The configuration file `[options]` section has been split into
`[miscellaneous]` and `[titles]`. If you have customized any of
these settings you will need to adjust the affected configuration
files.
- Configuration file `[miscellaneous]` entries can now also be set
using the command-line `-g` option.
- Fixed: error that occurred when attempting to use zero length
configuration and source files.
- Fixed: blocking filter halt problem.
- Fixed: inline macro escape prefix problem.
- Fixed: missing macros from configuration dump problem.
- Fixed: named macros were dumped incorrectly.
- Many documentation changes/additions/corrections.
Version 3.2.2 (2003-10-26)

--------------------------
- Added `-n` option (synonym for `-g section-numbers`).
- Dropped the processing commentary (hey, this is Unix).
- Added new calculated glossary reference type `{<name>?<value>}`.
`<name>` is the glossary entry name and `<value>` is the text
substituted if the glossary entry is defined. `<value>` can only
contain literal text (no glossary references allowed).
- Added àsciidoc2text` to distribution èxamples/asciidoc2text`
directory (converts AsciiDoc source to text file with section
numbering).
- Fixed incorrect nesting of Simple lists inside Variable lists.
- List definitions have been modified so that list items can be
indented. This allows a more intuitive indentation of nested lists
in AsciiDoc source.
- Lists must be separated from preceding paragraphs by a blank line.
This is to avoid paragraph lines being mistaken for list items.
- Corrected asciidoc man page documentation error: the`-f` option does
*not* search relative to source document directory for the
configuration file.
- Minor updates to various distribution `.conf` files.
- Included `badges.conf` in èxamples` directory.
- `css-embedded-stylesheet.conf` now supports footer badges.
- The default in-line element processing order has been changed:
Glossary References are now processed before Inline Macros. This
allows glossary expansions to occur inside macro references.
- Glossary entries are now allowed in Author and Revision lines.
- Default List `subs` options and Paragraph `presubs` options are
assigned the following default value if not specified:
specialcharacters,quotes,specialwords,replacements,glossary,macros
- Documentation changes/additions/corrections.
Version 3.2 (2003-05-26)

------------------------
- Added a `-s` command-line option to suppress the output of
`[header]` and `[footer]` sections.
- Article document headers are no longer mandatory: this allows
AsciiDoc to process arbitrary chunks of text. When used in
conjunction with the new `-s` command-line option corresponding
chunks of backend markup can be generated.
- AsciiDoc now emits a warning message and continues when an out of
sequence section title is detected (previously it failed and
halted). This allows document sections to be processed separately.
- Optional 'presubs' and 'postsubs' entries have been added to
'DelimitedBlock' and 'Paragraph' definitions. As a consequence
substitution options are no longer legal in 'options' entries.
- 'presubs' and 'postsubs' substitutions are processed in the order
the options are specified (rather than the fixed 'options' order of
previous versions).
- ./filters subdirectories are automatically searched for filter
commands.
- A 'title-subs' configuration option specifies the substitutions
performed on document Header and Section titles.
- A 'subs' entry in now included in List configuration file
definitions that specified substitutions performed on list entry
text.
- Configuration files are auto-loaded from ./filters subdirectories.
- Added example code filter (see ./examples/filters).
- Bug fix: if section was empty you may have got erroneous 'missing
tag "paragraph"' error.
- Internal code tidy up.
Version 3.1 (2003-05-18)

------------------------
- In version 3.0 a `[macros]` section entry of the form 'name' was
equivalent to 'name='. An entry of the form 'name' now undefines the
entry (to bring it in line with the behavior of other special
sections).
- Paragraphs have now been generalized (in the same way as Lists and
DelimitedBlocks).
- The 'indentsize' option has been dropped as as consequence of
paragraph generalization.
- Pipe | characters can be included in substituted tag and
substitution section text using the \{brvbar} (broken vertical bar)
glossary reference.
- Removed the restriction requiring substitution section text
placeholders | to be on a separate line.
- Added an `-e` asciidoc(1) command option that excludes implicit
configuration files (used in conjunction with `-c` generated
configuration files).
- Version 3.0 documentation has undergone a considerable cleanup.
- The dumping of quoted section entries (see `-c` option) now works
correctly.
- The format of special section entries has been made consistent:
`name` undefines the entry; `name=` sets the entry value to a blank
string; `name=value` sets the entry value to `value`.
- As a consequence of the previous change the caret prefix is no
longer used in glossary configuration file entries (although it is
still used when undefining an entry using the `-g` command-line
option).
Version 3.0 (2003-05-13)

------------------------
This version is the culmination of work begun in the 2.x releases
whereby fixed policy has been replaced by extensible mechanisms.
- Added `-c` command-line option to dump a composite asciidoc(1)

configuration file to stdout.
- Lists and Delimited Blocks are now defined by a set of configuration
file parameter sections. The user can modify the default
definitions or add new ones.
- Block content can now be processed through external filters.
- The default behavior for Custom Blocks is to perform glossary
substitution (previously there was no substitution inside Custom
Blocks).
- The old 2.x style macros have been reimplemented; as with Lists and
Delimited Blocks there syntax and behavior can be configured by the
user. The default macro syntax remains the same but the semantics
are now (hopefully) a bit more intelligible.
- Block and Builtin macros use :: delimiter instead of the 2.x single
colon delimit (to distinguish them from inline macros). The 2.x
syntax is still supported for backward compatibility.
- Nested lists are now supported and IndentedParagraphs can be
included in list items.
- Conditional source inclusion can be specified using built in ìfdef`,
ìfndef` and èndif` macros.
- The new conditional source inclusion feature has been used to reduce
the number of default configuration files down to one per backend.
- A change of name: 2.x 'Substitutions' are now called 'Replacements'
and the 2.x `[substitutions]` configuration file section is now
called `[replacements]` (the old name is still recognized for
backward compatibility).
- The line break is now implemented as a 'Replacements' substitution.
- Inline 'icon' macro for inline images has been added to default
configuration files.
Version 2.2 (2003-04-07)

------------------------
- The `master.conf` configuration file name has been deprecated in
favor of àsciidoc.conf`.
- The standard configuration files set is now loaded from the
`.asciidoc` folder in the users home directory (if it exists) and
then from the source document directory. Configuration files that
don't exist are silently skipped.
- Configuration files named like the source file will be automatically
loaded if they are found in the source file directory. For example
if the source file is `mydoc.asc` and the `-b html` option is used
then asciidoc(1) will look for `mydoc.conf` and `mydoc-html.conf` in
that order.
- The characters used to quote formatted text can be configured and
extended by the user (see the master.conf [quotes] section).
- Quoted text can now be escaped by prefixing a backslash character to
the leading quote.
- The double single-quote '' strong text quote has been deprecated in
favor of an asterisk * character.
- Added \{eval:expression}, \{sys:command} and \{sys2:command}
glossary reference actions.
- Trailing brace characters `}` are now allowed inside glossary
references provided they are escaped with a backslash character.
- Glossary entries can now be escaped by prefixing a backslash
character to the leading brace character (use this in preference to
placing the backslash inside the brace).
- The output macro has been deprecated (use the new include1 macro
inside a CustomBlock).
- The default document type is àrticle` (asciidoc no longer attempts
to guess).
- Files included within DelimitedBlocks are not searched for block
termination underlines. This ensures the entire file is part of the
DelimitedBlock.
- ìnclude` macros can now be used in configuration files.
- Corrected \{infile} and \{outfile} glossary entry documentation.
- File inclusion is now limited to a depth of 5 to catch recursion
loops.
- Inline tags have been deprecated, they're not necessary and they
immediately make the source document backend specific. Use
CustomBlocks or Substitutions instead.
Version 2.1 (2003-03-17)

------------------------
- Added section auto numbering `{sectnum}` glossary entry
(auto-numbering function contributed by Ludovico Magnocavallo).
- asciidoc(1) now correctly returns non-zero exit status if an error
occurs.
- An AsciiDoc example website has been included in the AsciiDoc
distribution èxamples/website` directory.
- NOTE: The àsciidoc` wrapper script included in the 2.0 distribution
has been dropped, if you've symlinked or aliased to àsciidoc` you'll
need to change them to point directly to àsciidoc.py` instead.
- An RCS $Id$ marker can be used as the document header revision line
(based on a patch submitted by Ludovico Magnocavallo).
- In addition to the `name=value` glossary entry format two new ones
have been introduced: `name` (the default value is set to an empty
string) and `^name` (the glossary entry is undefined).
- The `-q` command-line option has been deprecated and the `-w level`
command-line option added. +
NOTE: By default skipped substitution warnings are now suppressed.
- If a configuration file specified with the `-f` command-line option
is not found relative to the current working directory then the
search is repeated relative to the asciidoc(1) directory. This
allows global configuration files to be used.
- Added `{infile}`, `{outfile}` predefined glossary entries.
- Added ùnder-construction` macro to HTML article configuration
files.
- Deprecated `{asciidoc_version}` glossary entry in favor of
`{asciidoc-version}` (to it consistent with other entries).
Version 2.0 (2003-02-24)

------------------------
- The emphasized, strong and monospaced words options have been
generalized with the introduction of macro based 'special words'
lists.
- Glossary references can now appear in both the document and macro
bodies.
- All output files use `crlf` line termination (previously used UNIX
`lf` (newline) termination).
- Added [substitutions] section which implements arbitrary regular
expression based substitutions.
- An optional `master.conf` configuration file can be used for entries
that are not backend or document type specific.
- Special character definitions moved from the code to the new
[special_characters] configuration file section.
- Configuration file glossary added.
- Command-line -g glossary entry added.
- A new 'book' document type has been implemented for the 'docbook'
backend. It outputs DocBook 'book' documents.
- A major internal change has been the implementation of parametrized
user definable 'macros'. Internally most document elements are now
processed as macros.
- Configuration file macro variables can be specified with default
values (literals or other macro variables).
- An attempt has been made to tighten up the vocabulary used to
describe the AsciiDoc document syntax.
- The term abstract has been replaced by the more general term
'preface' and a new preface section introduced into article
configuration files (replacing the synopsis sections).
- Any section elements can now be put in the document preface
(previous versions only allowed paragraphs).
- AsciiDoc Blocks have been unified and their behavior can be user
defined and parametrized.
- An 'output' inclusion allows an external file to be written directly
to the backend output file.
- A new CustomBlock has been added. Default behavior is to insert the
enveloped AsciiDoc source lines directly into the output file.
- A 'line break' tag can be inserted by terminating a line with a '+'
character (only really useful for HTML backends).
- An fourth section level has been introduced.
- The SidebarBlock delimiter line characters have been changed. The
deprecated underline is still accepted.
- Levels 2 and 3 title underline characters have been changed. The
deprecated underlines are still accepted.
- Lines with backend specific inline tags can be inserted into
AsciiDoc source files.
- Single words enveloped by underscores are no longer emphasized. This
feature was deprecated as it is redundant (use single quotes
instead) and was being applied to file names with underscores.
- A `-q` quiet option has been added to suppress warning messages.
- Badge images sourced locally.
- Added 'author' and 'author-mail' meta tags to HTML configuration
files.
Version 1.5 (2003-01-08)

------------------------
- Implemented sidebar document elements.
- Explicit checks for user specified configuration files and input
file (rather than throwing exception).
Version 1.4 (2003-01-04)

------------------------
- New configuration file options 'emphasizedwords' and 'strongwords'.
These allow the definition of words that will always be emphasized
or rendered in a strong font without inline formatting.
- Document and section titles are no long subject to inline
formatting.
- Multiple configuration files can be overlaid in a single command.
- Configuration file tags and options entries can now be overridden on
an entry by entry basis (previously the entire section was
overloaded).
- Configuration file tags and options entries are now cached this has
resulted in around 37% performance improvement over version 1.3.
- Variable lists can now contain multiple terms per list item.
- Placeholder paragraph eliminated from empty sections that contain
subsections.
- Added \{asciidoc_version} substitution variable.
- More documentation additions and tidy ups.
Version 1.3 (2003-01-01)

------------------------
- A new 'strong' text formatting convention has been implemented:
Word phrases enclosed in pairs of single quote characters (acute
accents) are rendered in a strong font (usually bold).
- Paragraphs can now be followed immediately by Simple lists and
Ordered lists without an intervening blank line.
- A user specified configuration file (àsciidoc(1)` -f option)
overlays the default configuration file rather than replacing it.
Custom configuration files need only contain those sections
that have been customized.
- Comment Block delimiters have been relaxed slightly. They must start
with three forward slashes /// but the remainder can contain any
characters, this allows comments to be embedded in the delimiter line.
- Leading non-digit characters preceding revision number are now
ignored.
- Set default indentsize [option] from 2 to documented default value
of zero in HTML backend html-article.conf and html-manpage.conf
files.
- Fixed error that occurred when taking input from stdin without
explicitly specifying a document type.
- Restored file name and line number error message information.
- Changed deprecated -t option to -d in asciidoc --help and usage
command output.
- CSS styles tweaking.
- Code, configuration file and documentation tidy ups.
Version 1.2 (2002-12-28)

------------------------
- Implemented 'include' URL to allow file inclusion.
- `fileextension` configuration file [option] renamed to more sensible
òutfilesuffix` (`fileextension` still accepted by this version but
will be dropped in future).
- Improved error reporting.
- CSS backends generate valid XHTML.
- New `css-embedded` backend generates HTML with embedded stylesheets
(use the `css` backend for linked stylesheets). The css-embedded
backend output contains no linked images so the generated html files
are completely self contained.
- Bug fixes.
Version 1.1 (2002-12-03)

------------------------
- Added css (cascading style sheets) backend
- Implemented IndentedBlock document element.
- Tabsize command-line option has been deprecated in
favor of configuration file.
- Default indent width changed to zero.
- Added \{localdate} and \{localtime} substitution variables.
- Added optional [options] configuration file section with
fileextension, tabsize and indentsize options.
- Implemented \{authorinitials} substitution variable.
- Added https link type.
- Corrected [graphic] substitution from \{title} to \{caption}
in linuxdoc-article.conf configuration file.
- Fixed error that occurred when '==' title underline was
used.
Version 1.0 (2002-11-25)

------------------------
First AsciiDoc public release along with AsciiDoc web site
(http://asciidoc.org/) and SourceForge.net project registration
(https://sourceforge.net/projects/asciidoc/[]).
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Version 8.6.9 (2013-11-09)

Version 8.6.8 (2012-07-17)

.Other additions and changes

- Vim syntax highlighter: Don't confuse trailing open block delimiter

Version 8.6.7 (2012-03-17)

.All additions and changes

.All additions and changes

Version 8.6.5 (2011-05-20)

- A new 'flask' theme for 'xhtml11' and 'html5' backends inspired by

- The new 'toc2' attribute generates a table of contents in

asciidoc -b html5 -a icons -a toc2 -a theme=flask article.txt

- `a2x(1)` now has a flexible mechanism for copying arbitrary

* The `a2x(1)` `--resource` option can be used to inject any file

.All additions and changes

Version 8.6.4 (2011-02-20)

Version 8.6.2 (2010-10-03)

Version 8.6.1 (2010-08-22)

Version 8.5.3 (2010-01-18)

Version 8.5.2 (2009-12-07)

Version 8.5.1 (2009-10-31)

If you use customised xhtml11 configuration file `[header]` and

. The onload event expression changed.

Take a look at the [header] and [footer] changes in the xhtml11.conf

Version 8.5.0 (2009-10-04)

Version 8.4.5 (2009-05-24)

Version 8.4.4 (2009-04-26)

Version 8.4.3 (2009-04-13)

Version 8.4.2 (2009-03-19)

Version 8.4.1 (2009-03-10)

- Backtick quoting for monospaced text is now implemented as an

The `++i` and `++j` auto-increments.

- Added `--doctest` option to `asciidoc(1)` command.

1. You have escaped the expansion of enclosed inline elements, for

2. There are enclosed inline elements, for example: `some *bold*

Version 8.3.5 (2009-02-02)

Version 8.3.4 (2009-01-20)

Version 8.3.3 (2009-01-02)

Version 8.3.2 (2009-01-01)

Version 8.3.1 (2008-12-14)

Version 8.3.0 (2008-11-29)

- 'pi', 'cdata' and 'comment' passthrough macros and passthrough block

- The old table syntax is still processed but a 'DEPRECATED' warning

Version 8.2.7 (2008-07-04)

See the also the https://sharesource.org/hg/asciidoc/[AsciiDoc

Version 8.2.6 (2008-04-29)

Version 8.2.5 (2007-11-18)

Version 8.2.4 (2007-11-10)

Version 8.2.3 (2007-09-12)

Version 8.2.2 (2007-07-22)

Version 8.2.1 (2007-04-06)

Version 8.2.0 (2007-04-04)

$ asciidoc -a toc -a toclevels=3 doc/asciidoc.txt

- Added a `listindex` attribute which is the current list item index

Version 8.1.0 (2006-10-22)

- Conditionally redefined subscript and superscripting so they use the

Version 8.0.0 (2006-08-27)

Please report any problems you encounter.

.Additions and changes

- The underline and plus characters can be used as alternatives to the

- Superscripts and subscripts are implemented as constrained quotes so

- An experimental LaTeX backend has been written by Benjamin Klum (a

- A blank configuration file section deletes any preceding section

- a2x(1) can generate Open Document Text files using

2. There are enclosed inline elements, for example: `some bold