NEWS.md

Release notes for Weave.jl

v0.10.6 – 2020/10/03

improvements:

• cleaned up chunk rendering (removed unnecessary extra newlines): #401
• WEAVE_ARGS now can take arbitrary objects: https://github.com/JunoLab/Weave.jl/commit/c24a2621359b5d0af1bb6825f488e58cc11b8a9e
• improved docs: #397 by @baggepinnen

bug fixes

• fixed #398: #399
• removed unnecessary quote for markdown output: https://github.com/JunoLab/Weave.jl/commit/a1830e05029f33195627ec5dedbacb30af23947e
• fixed #386: #396 by @torfjelde

v0.10 – 2020/05/18

improvements:

• weave is now integrated with Juno's progress bar; just call weave function inside Juno or use julia-client: weave-to-html(pdf) command (#331)
• document metadata in YAML header can be given dynamically (#329)
• headers are now striped more gracefully; only Weave.jl related header is stripped when weaving to github or hugo document (#329, #305)
• WeavePlots/GadflyPlots won't be loaded into Main module (#322)
• unconst bindings in a sandbox module are correctly cleared, helping GC free as much memory usage as possible (#317)
• keep latex figures even if weaving failed (#302)
• bunch of documentation improvements (#297, #295)
• code size in HTML header is now not hardcoded, leading to more readable font size (#281)

bug fixes:

• display of "big" object is fixed and limited (#311)
• fix dependencies issues

internal:

• bunch of internal refactors, code clean up (#330, #327, #325, #321, #320, #319, #318, #313)
• internal error now doesn't mess up display system (#316)
• format code base (#312)

breaking change:

• options YAML key is deprecated, use weave_options key instead (#334)
• set_chunk_defaults is now renamed to set_chunk_defaults! (#323)
• restore_chunk_defaults is now renamed to restore_chunk_defaults! (#323)

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v0.4.1

• Disable precompilation due to warnings from dependencies
• Fix deprecation warnings for Julia 0.6
• Fix PyPlot for Julia 0.6
• Support citations in pandoc2html and pandoc2pdf output
• Fix extra whitespace when term=true
• Fix mime type priority for md2html

V0.4.0

• Support passing arguments to document using args option
• Add include_weave for including code from Weave documents
• Add support for inline code chunks
• Remove generated figure files when publishing to html and pdf

v0.3.0

• Add support for YAML title block
• Use Julia markdown for publishing to pdf and html
• Add template, highlight_theme, latex_cmd and css option to weave for customizing html and pdf output
• Bug fixes
  • Fix plotting on Windows
  • Fix extra whitespace from code chunk output
• Improved GR and GLVisualize support with Plots

v0.2.2

• Add IJulia notebook as input format
• Add convert_doc method to convert between input formats

v0.2.1

• Fix critical hanging on Windows using proper handling of redirect_stdout
• Add support for Plots.jl plotly and plotlyjs backends for including javascipt output in published HTML documents.
• Fix semicolons for term=true

v0.2

• Move to Julia 0.5 only
• New display and prompt chunk options by @gragusa
• Implemented fig_width and fig_height chunk option for Plots.jl
• Added pre and post chunk hooks, only used internally for now
• Automatic detection of plotting library, :auto is the new default options
• Support for displaying general multimedia objects e.g. Plots.jl and Images.jl now work with weave.
• Support for including html, latex and markdown output from objects
• New logic for displaying output in script chunks, output is shown by default for:
  • Writing to stdout
  • Calling display
  • Gadfly plots
  • Variables on their own
  • If the last line of a chunk is a function call that returns output e.g. plot(1:10)
• Bug fixes
  • Fix parsing of lone variables from chunks
  • Fix error with md2html formatter and dates #38

v0.1.2

27th April 2016

• Fix a bug with out_path for md2html and md2pdf
• Fix md2html and md2pdf on Windows
• Improve doctype autodetection
• Improved regex for parsing markdown input format

v0.1.1

• Change pandoc output to use inline images if there is no caption.
• Use Documenter.jl for documentation.
• Add chunk option hold, replaces results = "hold". This way you can use e.g. hold = true, results=raw.
• Methods for setting and restoring default chunk options for documents.
• New output options md2pdf and md2html, both use pandoc to output pdf and html files directly with own templates.
• Restored and improved Winston support.
• New input format: scripts with markup in comments
• New output format: MultiMarkdown
• Added support for figure width in Pandoc
• Autodetect input and output formats based on filename
• Allow out_path be a file or directory.

v0.1.0

19th April 2016

• Updated for Julia 0.4x, drop 0.3x support
• Each document is executed in separate sandbox module instead of redefining the same one. Fixes warnings and occasional segfaults.
• Change the output of chunks:
  • Output will be added to the output directly where they are created (default).
  • Use results = "hold" to push all output after the chunk.
• New chunk option: line_width.
• Winston support is not implemented yet for this version.
• Bug fix in wrapping output lines.
• Internal changes
  • Chunks are now represented with their own type. Allows multiple dispatch and easier implementation of new chunks.

0.0.4

4th January 2015

• Added AsciiDoc formatter
• Default plotting library changed to Gadfly
• New option: out_path for controlling where weaved documents and figures are saved
• Command line script bin/weave.jl for calling weave from command line

0.0.3

9th December 2014

• Sandbox module for running code is cleared between documents
• Fixed Latex figure handling (with contributions from @wildart)
• Changed "tex" format: separate environment for term chunks
• Improved test coverage
• Fixed a bug with eval=false chunk option.

0.0.2

7th December 2014

First release:

• Noweb and markdown input formats
• Support for Gadfly, Winston and PyPlot figures
• Term and script chunks
• Support for markdown, tex and rst output