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Vit Star2 Novotn2 submitted an update to the

markdown

package.

Version number: 3.11.6-0-g340ac223 2025-09-29
License type: lppl1.3c

Summary description: Converting and rendering markdown documents inside TeX

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Tests:

- Improve the speed of our tests more by than 3+. (added by @zauguin,
@muzimuzhi, @gucci-on-fleek, and @josephwright in latex3/latex3#1791,
discussed in #557 and #584)

- Enable LuaMetaTeX in ConTeXt tests. (added by @witiko in #557 with major
contributions from @josephwright and @gucci-on-fleek in #557,
latex3/latex3#1791, latex3/latex3#1797, and elsewhere)

Documentation:

- Add installation instructions for ConTeXt Standalone to the user manual.
(reported by @andreiborisov in #402, added by @witiko and @gucci-on-fleek
in #557)

Continuous integration:

- Do not use self-hosted runners in pull requests either. (07af69a8)
- Remove TeX Live 2023 and 2024 from the continuous integration. (5cb59800)

This is because we can't typeset the ConTeXt LMTX example document with
earlier TeX Live versions. TeX Live 2023 and 2024 are still supported.

Examples:

- Add example file `examples/context-lmtx.tex` for ConTeXt LMTX.
(added by @witiko in #557 with major contributions from @josephwright and
@gucci-on-fleek in #557 and elsewhere)

Housekeeping:

- Remove needless ignored issues. (fixed by @witiko in #583)


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V|!t Star|+ Novotn|+ submitted an update to the

markdown

package.

Version: 3.12.0-0-g746cfc56 2025-10-31
License: lppl1.3c

Summary description: Converting and rendering markdown documents inside TeX

Announcement text: --------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Development:

- Upgrade from Unicode 16 to Unicode 17. (#585)

- Produce [warning renderers][warning-renderer] for undefined and multiply defined
references to notes, full links, and collapsed links. (requested by @witiko
in #518, added by @witiko and @lostenderman in #587)

Here is how you might make the warnings part of the output in LaTeX by
redefining the warning renderer:

``` tex
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[notes]{markdown}
\usepackage[english]{babel}
\usepackage[autostyle,english=american]{csquotes}
\MakeOuterQuote{"}
\usepackage{todonotes}
\markdownSetup
{
renderers = {
warning = \todo{#1},
},
}
\begin{document}
\begin{markdown}

Here is an undefined note.[^note]

[foo]: https://example.bar/
[foo]: https://example.baz/

\end{markdown}
\end{document}
```

By default, warnings are logged using the `\msg_warning:` class of expl3 functions.

[warning-renderer]: https://witiko.github.io/markdown/#warning-and-error-renderers

Docker:

- Start building Docker images `witiko/markdown:latest-context`. (#402, #586)

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V|!t Star|+ Novotn|+ submitted an update to the

markdown

package.

Version: 3.13.0-0-gdd212d58 2026-01-02
License: lppl1.3c

Summary description: Converting and rendering markdown documents inside TeX

Announcement text: --------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Fixes:

- Support Unicode in attributes. (reported by @andreiborisov in #605,
fixed by @witiko in #608)

Development:

- Add `\mmdcCommand` macro for configuring the command used to render Mermaid
diagrams. (suggested by @TheManchineel in #613, added by @witiko in #614)

For example, you can use different icon packs as follows:

```` tex
\documentclass{article}
\def\mmdcCommand{mmdc --iconPacks '@iconify-json/logos'}
\usepackage[import=witiko/diagrams@v2]{markdown}
\begin{document}
\begin{markdown}

``` mermaid
architecture-beta
group api(logos:aws-lambda)[API]

service db(logos:aws-aurora)[Database] in api
service disk1(logos:aws-glacier)[Storage] in api
service disk2(logos:aws-s3)[Storage] in api
service server(logos:aws-ec2)[Server] in api

db:L -- R:server
disk1:T -- B:server
disk2:T -- B:db
```

\end{markdown}
\end{document}
````

- Add a new Lua option `htmlOverLinks` that causes HTML tags to be recognized
as tags rather than hyperlinks when the Lua option `relativeReferences` has
been enabled. (discussed with @u-fischer in #597, added by @witiko and
@lostenderman in #607)

The option `htmlOverLinks` is an experimental option: Whenever the option
`experimental` is enabled and `htmlOverLinks` is unspecified, it will also be
enabled. Like other experimental options, `htmlOverLinks` will be enabled by
default in the next major release of the Markdown package and soft-deprecated.

- Add a new Lua option `blankBeforeHtmlBlock` that causes the parser to require
a blank line between a paragraph and the following CommonMark HTML block.
(discussed with @u-fischer in #598, added by @witiko and @lostenderman in #608)

Enabling this option breaks CommonMark compliance but makes it easier to write
raw HTML such as inline HTML comments without producing HTML blocks by
accident.

- In theme `witiko/diagrams`, add parameter `format` for GraphViz diagrams.
(reported by @witiko in #611, fixed by @witiko in #612)

Here is an example LaTeX document using the new parameter:

```` tex
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[import=witiko/diagrams@v2, relativeReferences]{markdown}
\begin{document}
\begin{markdown}
``` dot {caption="An example directed graph" format=svg width=12cm #dot}
digraph tree {
margin = 0;
rankdir = "LR";

latex -> pmml;
latex -> cmml;
pmml -> slt;
cmml -> opt;
cmml -> prefix;
cmml -> infix;
pmml -> mterms [style=dashed];
cmml -> mterms;

latex [label = "LaTeX"];
pmml [label = "Presentation MathML"];
cmml [label = "Content MathML"];
slt [label = "Symbol Layout Tree"];
opt [label = "Operator Tree"];
prefix [label = "Prefix"];
infix [label = "Infix"];
mterms [label = "M-Terms"];
}
```

See the diagram in Figure <#dot>.
\end{markdown}
\end{document}
````

This can be used to circumvent missing support for PDF output in some
distributions of GraphViz, [notably Debian Forky][bugs-debian-1123051],
which the `texlive/texlive` Docker images are currently based on.

[bugs-debian-1123051]: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1123051

Defaults:

- In LaTeX, fix header attribute `{-}` for chapters and parts. (reported by
@MacLotsen in #602, fixed by @witiko in e588d205)

- In LaTeX, reset category codes before using `\maketitle`. (reported by
@MacLotsen in #603, fixed by @witiko in 00068c87)

Continuous integration:

- Bump `actions/checkout` from 5 to 6. (added by @dependabot in #604)

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