CTAN update: markdown

Vít Starý Novotný submitted an update to the

                   markdown

package.

Version:  3.7.1-0-g8e726800 2024-09-30
License:  lppl1.3c

Summary description:  Converting and rendering markdown documents inside TeX

Announcement text:
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 Development:

 - Remove dependency on `UnicodeData.txt`. (#400, #458 #486, #492, #499)

   This change improves the speed of parsing markdown input by up to 25%
   for a cold conversion run and makes life easier for users of TeX
   distributions other than TeX Live, such as MikTeX and ConTeXt Standalone,
   where `UnicodeData.txt` may not be as easily available. This change also
   adds a new file `markdown-unicode-data.lua`, which must be properly
   installed with the rest of the Markdown package.

 - Add renderers `warning` and `error` that represent warnings and errors
   produced by the markdown parser. (#452, #473, #496)

 Fixes:

 - Properly load LaTeX themes when `theme` or `import` is used in
   `\usepackage[...]{markdown}`. (#471, #498)

 - Prevent endless loop when setting deprecated `jekyllDataString` (renderer)
   prototype. (#500)

 - Correctly handle backslashes in `\markdownOptionOutputDir` on Windows.
   (#492, #500, reported by @l0th3r)

 - Fix hard line breaks in blockquotes.
   (#494, #495, reported by @l0th3r, #496, contributed by @lostenderman)

 Deprecation:

 - Soft-deprecate the `hybrid` option. (#470, #504, 546faa87)

   Soft-deprecated features will never be removed but using them prints a
   warning and is discouraged. Instead of the `hybrid` option, consider one of
   the following better alternatives for mixing TeX and markdown:

   - With the `contentBlocks` option, authors can move large blocks of TeX
     code to separate files and include them in their markdown documents as
     external resources.

   - With the `rawAttribute` option, authors can denote raw text spans and
     code blocks that will be interpreted as TeX code.

   - With options `texMathDollars`, `texMathSingleBackslash`, and
     `texMathDoubleBackslash`, authors can freely type TeX commands between
     dollar signs or backslash-escaped brackets.

   For more information, see the user manual at
   <https://witiko.github.io/markdown/>.

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The package’s Catalogue entry can be viewed at
   https://ctan.org/pkg/markdown

The package’s files themselves can be inspected at
   https://mirrors.ctan.org/macros/generic/markdown/

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   Thanks for the upload.

     For the CTAN Team
    Petra Rübe-Pugliese

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