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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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