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This is significant release, it gets rid of unused cruft, simplifies the lists syntax and introduces a decent tables syntax. There are a few fairly minor backward compatibility issues, please read the compatibility issues section in the CHANGLOG before upgrading.

New Features

  • AsciiDoc tables have been redesigned. 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.

  • 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. Here is some more information.

  • 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 passthrough macros along with asciimath and latexmath passthrough blocks provide a (backend dependent) mechanism for rendering mathematical formulas. There are LaTeX Math, AsciiMathML and LaTeXMathML examples on the AsciiDoc website.

Read the CHANGELOG for a full list of all additions and changes.