RDiscount 2.1.6 released

May 28, 2013 – Filed as: Software⁷²

There are several new features in RDiscount 2.1.6. My favorite is fenced code blocks.

Update to the latest version with:

gem update rdiscount

RDiscount now has feature parity with the latest Discount release.

What’s New?

• Fenced code blocks
  • backtick-delimited - from GitHub Flavored Markdown
  • tilde-delimited - from PHP Markdown Extra
• New extensions:
  • :no_superscript - Disables superscript processing.
  • :no_strikethrough - Disables strikethrough processing.
• License changed from 4-clause BSD to the more-permissive 3-clause BSD.
• Fix -- and --- to be converted to – and — correctly.
• Fix handling of tables that have leading and trailing pipe characters.
• Fix generated table of contents to be valid HTML.
  Handling of special characters in headings is also improved.
• Fix recognition of HTML tags that contain - or _.

What’s Next?

Only David Loren Parsons knows.¹ :-)

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