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title: kramdown 1.13.0 released
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created_at: 2016-11-20 11:30:00 +01:00
modified_at: 2016-11-20 11:30:00 +01:00
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## kramdown 1.13.0 released

The biggest change in this release is the introduction of a converter for [man pages]. Although
there already exist two solutions ([ronn] and [kramdown-man]), both are not completely satisfactory:

* Ronn doesn't use standard Markdown syntax for all elements.
* kramdown-man only converts a subset of the available element types.

The new man page converter uses standard kramdown syntax and supports nearly all element types,
including tables.

This release also brings some enhancements for the GFM parser. One thing to note is that the header
ID generation is now more compatible to GFM which also means that **some IDs will be different** -
so check the documents on which you use the GFM parser, especially when you are using Jekyll or
Github Pages.

Organizational-wise, issues and pull requests on Github that pertain to feature requests have been
closed and are now tracked through a dedicated [kramdown project on
Github](https://github.com/gettalong/kramdown/projects/1).

## Changes

* 4 minor changes:

  - Add new converter for man pages
  - Header ID generation for the GFM parser is now more compatible to GFM (fixes [#267], requested
    by chadpowers)
  - Update to the MathJax math engine to allow formatting the preview as `code` / `pre > code` (pull
    request [#372] by Florian Klampfer)
  - Allow tabs in table separator lines (pull request [#370] by Shuanglei Tao)

* 2 bug fixes:

  - Compactly nested lists are now handled correctly after fixing a bug in indentation detection
    (fixes [#368] reported by Christopher Brown)
  - GFM parser: Allow indenting the delimiting lines of fenced code blocks for better GFM
    compatibility (pull request [#369] by Shuanglei Tao)

* 2 other fixes and enhancements:

  - Added information on how to run tests to `README.md` (fixes [#377] reported by Aron Griffis)
  - Added information about how to use KaTeX with the MathJax math engine (fixes [#292] reported by
    Adrian Sieber, information by Dato Simó)


[man pages]: ../converter/man.html
[ronn]: http://rtomayko.github.io/ronn/
[kramdown-man]: https://github.com/postmodern/kramdown-man

[#267]: https://github.com/gettalong/kramdown/issues/267
[#368]: https://github.com/gettalong/kramdown/issues/368
[#377]: https://github.com/gettalong/kramdown/issues/377
[#292]: https://github.com/gettalong/kramdown/issues/292
[#372]: https://github.com/gettalong/kramdown/pull/372
[#370]: https://github.com/gettalong/kramdown/pull/370
[#369]: https://github.com/gettalong/kramdown/pull/369
