New output format vimdoc (Vim documentation format) (Vimdoc writer #11132, reptee).

• [API change] Added module Text.Pandoc.Writers.Vimdoc, exporting writeVimdoc.

Markdown reader:

• Improve superscript/subscript/inline note parsing (Markdown footnotes surrounding a word result in superscript #8652). We do not allow inline notes to be followed by ( or [. Otherwise, we parse inline notes before superscripts. Also, the sub/superscript parsers have been adjusted so that they really exclude unescaped spaces (as they did not before, when the spaces occurred in nested inlines).
• Fix simple table alignment (Markdown reader: Fix simple table alignment with wide characters #11136, Tuong Nguyen Manh). Take wide characters into account when determining the alignment.

LaTeX reader:

• Ignore \pandocbounded (Markdown writer doesn't parse correctly figures from RST og LaTeX #11140).

XML reader:

• Parse <MetaString> (xml reader: parse MetaString elements #11137, massifrg).

Typst reader:

• Add support for reading typst pagebreak (Parse #pagebreak() in Typst #11101, Raymond Berger). The pagebreak is parsed as a HorizontalRule inside a wrapper Div with class page-break.

Docx reader:

• Handle figures in indented paragraphs (Image in a docx file being discarded by the docx reader #11028).
• Change default for textwidth. This should only be used if sectPr is not found.
• Properly calculate table column widths (Docx reader: handle table column relative widths #9837, Keep table dimensions during conversion from Docx to Native (or Markdown) #11147). Previously we assumed that every table took up the full text width. Now we read the text width from the document’s sectPr.
• Use Tasty.Golden for Docx reader tests. This way we can update them with --accept.

RST reader:

• Fix regression in simple table parsing (RST reader table regression #11150).
• SkippedContent warning if table directive contains non-tabular content.
• Simple tables: leading space in a cell should not cause the contents to be parsed as a block quote (RST input: "Simple Tables" problems (with leading spaces and tabs) #11146).
• Parse :alt: on figure (Markdown writer doesn't parse correctly figures from RST og LaTeX #11140). Also give a better default if alt is not specified, using the stringified caption rather than the filename.
• Support col spans for simple tables (Tuong Nguyen Manh).

Markdown writer:

• Improve handling of implicit figures (Markdown writer doesn't parse correctly figures from RST og LaTeX #11140). Allow implicit figures when alt text differs from caption (in this case, we use an image attribute to add the alt).
• Use approximate pipe tables when it’s the only option (HTML -> MD: colspan is breaking pipe tables #11128). If we have a table with row/colspans that can rendered as an approximate pipe table (without row/colspans), and no other table format is enabled that could render the table, we fall back to an “approximate” pipe table, with no row/colspans.

RST writer:

• Ensure blank line before directives (gfm -> rst, code inside list: no new line before code directive #11162).
• Add col spans for simple tables (RST simple tables: support col spans #10127, Tuong Nguyen Manh).

OpenDocument writer:

• Add missing table elements (Row disappeared in table header for grid table converted to ODT  #10002, Tuong Nguyen Manh). Add missing header rows after the first one, footer rows as well as TableBody header rows.

Docx writer:

• Fix regression (from 3.8) in highlighted code (Docx writer does not correctly render code fences (no syntax highlighting) #11156).

Powerpoint writer:

• Handle single column (Tuong Nguyen Manh).

Typst writer:

• Fix syntax highlighting (Typst + Pygments? #11171, completes Rework syntax highlighting options #10525). Previously the native typst highlighting was always used, regardless of the setting of --syntax-highlighting. With this change, --syntax-highlighting=none and --syntax-highlighting=<stylename> (with skylighting style) will work.

LaTeX writer:

• Make beamer footnotes compatible with pauses (Footnote offset after pause in Beamer #5954). Previously they would appear before the content to which the note was attached, when there were pauses in a slide.
• Avoid \_ in bibliography variable (Pandoc replacing underscores in bibliography by UTF-8 bytes #11152).
• Ensure that unlabelled tables don’t increment counter (With pandoc-crossref unreferenced/unlabelled tables are included in the table reference count in pdf output via latex #11141).
• Protect VERB in caption (LaTeX writer: Protect VERB in caption #11139, Tuong Nguyen Manh).
• Don’t add links to TOC (URL in heading using {-} gives: Argument of \HyPsd@@ReplaceFi has an extra }. #11124, Albert Krewinkel).
• Fix strikeouts in beamer title (Regression: strikeout text no longer works in beamer slideshow title (pandoc 3.8) #11168, Tuong Nguyen Manh).

LaTeX template: Add shorthands variable for LaTeX output (key shorthands not supported in variable babeloptions #11160). If true, pandoc will allow language-specific shorthands when loading babel. (This is helpful, for example, in getting proper spacing around French punctuation.)

epub.css: Remove coloring for a, a:visiting (epub links indistinguishable from regular text in macOS and iOS Books app #11174). This was causing links in iOS books app not to be distinguished in any way (since underlining is not used there).

Text.Pandoc.Parsing:

• [API chage] (Tuong Nguyen Manh). New functions tableWithSpans, tableWithSpans', toTableComponentsWithSpans and toTableComponentsWithSpans' take a list of lists of (Blocks, RowSpan, ColSpan) to parse a Table with different RowSpan and ColSpan values accordingly. New helper functions singleRowSpans and singleColumnSpans help set all RowSpans or ColSpans to be 1 in case the table format only allows setting one or the other.

Text.Pandoc.Class:

• Let fetchItem fail if the HTTP request is not successful (Albert Krewinkel). HTTP requests that don’t return a 200 error code are now treated as an error. This ensures that a warning is triggered when using --embed-resources or --extract-media.

Text.Pandoc.Writers.Shared:

• Add new function removeLinks [API change] (Albert Krewinkel). The function converts links to spans. It is used, for example, to avoid nested links. The HTML writer used to put the description of nested links into small caps, but uses a simple span now.

Text.Pandoc.Highlighting: export typst functions [API change]. New exported functions formatTypstBlock, formatTypstInline, styleToTypst.

Text.Pandoc.XML:

• Add fetchpriority to list of HTML attributes (fetchpriority attribute not recognized for img tag in HTML writer #11176).

Allow unicode-data 0.7.

Use released djot 0.1.2.3. Fixes a bug in which indentation was swallowed in a code block inside a blockquote.