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date: 2008/08/24 10:11
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title: This friday will see a new rst2pdf release
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updated: 2008/08/24 10:11
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Following my new policy of one release every friday, in 6 days you will see a rst2pdf release. But not any release: a *great* release.

What will be new?

* Support for page number/section names/section numbers in headers and footers.

* Custom interpreted text roles (that means inline styling ;-)

* Stylesheets defined in external files. The syntax is JSON which may look a bit strange, but it works great.

* A Manual!

* Easy True Type font embedding.

* Maybe: syntax highlighting directive via pygments. I know I could make it work using the ImageFormatter, but then you can't copy the code. There is a docutils-sandbox project that does exactly what I want.

I intend to call this release 0.3.0, but maybe I will jump higher, since there is not much more left to implement.