NEWS.md

In distill: 'R Markdown' Format for Scientific and Technical Writing

distill 1.6 (CRAN)

• RSS feed creation now works correctly for listings when no description is provided in one of the Rmd post (thanks, \@cpsyctc, \@apeterson91, #490, #448).
• Fix an issue with line numbering on code chunks when highlight-downlit: false by tweaking Pandoc's default CSS rules (thanks, \@SES-CE, #473).
• Internally use format() instead of as.character() with Dates to account for argument format= deprecation in R 4.3.0 (thanks, \@mbojan, #488).
• Add a subtitle variable in HTML template placed between title and categories (thanks, \@dicook, #480).
• Add author name in orcid image alt text (thanks, \@mitchelloharawild , \@ajrgodfrey, #494, rjournal/rjtools#86).
• In distill_article(), metadata header in HTML is separated by <hr> to improve accessibility (thanks, @mitchelloharawild, #495, @ajrgodfrey, #rjournal/rjtools#92)

distill 1.5

• Add support for CC0 license in creative_commons (thanks, \@fkohrt, #431).
• Fix an issue with gt table and font size (thanks, \@ymer, \@lmlicuanan, #399).
• Fix an issue with hovering on citation references (thanks, \@Abhi-1U).
• Fix an issue with bibliography and date parsing (thanks, \@mitchelloharawild, #468).
• Fix an issue with compatibility with Pandoc 2.17+ which were breaking some bookdown feature supported by distill, like text references (thanks, \@eliocamp, #463).
• Fix an issue with blank HTML in browser when a @ is used unescaped in a document without bibliography YAML key (thanks, \@L-Groeninger, #466).

distill 1.4

• Fix navbar link when a destination page contains index.html (thanks, \@phillc73, #91).
• Fix an issue with search.json that was still written even when search: false in set in config (thanks, \@mitchelloharawild, #425).
• Fix an issue prevent sizing of figures produced with knitr using out.width chunk option (thanks, \@ssp3nc3r, #286).
• Fix an issue with running targets::tar_render() with a distill Rmd document (thanks, \@tarensanders, #400)
• Fix an issue with full_content: true for RSS feed creation (thanks, \@yuryzablotski, #454).
• Footnotes inserted in tables have now their tooltip correctly place (thanks, \@RMRubert, #411).
• Fix an issue with Leaflet Markers not showing when using non default layout (thanks, \@AndersFenger, #106).
• Fix an issue with encoding when inserting _footer.html in posts (thanks, \@shikokuchuo, #417).
• Fix an issue with double tooltip on hover when a note style CSL is used for references (thanks, \@sj-io, #423).
• Fix an issue when discovering a preview image with UTF-8 characters in its caption (thanks, \@egodrive, #436).
• Improve WAVE assessment of output by adding aria-hidden on icon and setting aria-label on wrapping link (thanks, \@batpigandme, #426).
• create_website() now works when no dir is provided and prompted to user.
• Content in <script> and <style> are now considered not searchable and exclude from content in search.json. This should make the json file a lot lighter and loading faster as htmlwidget code (e.g plotly graph) would correctly be not included (thanks, \@mitchelloharawild, #425).
• Improve highlighting theme arrow regarding accessibility.
• code_folding = FALSE set on a chunk is now correctly taken into account and does not enforce echo = TRUE. As a reminder, setting code_folding: true in YAML header will enforce echo = TRUE on chunk, unless code_folding is unset on a per-chunk basis (thanks, \@werkstattcodes, #297).

distill v1.3

• Fix homepage not showing any posts after upgrading to rmarkdown 2.11 (#403)
• Fix references style by adding CSS rules used in Pandoc for citeproc.
• Fix issue w/ full content and categorized rss feed (#380).
• Fix issue w/ _footer.html containing HTML tags using attributes with no value (#377).
• Require lubridate 1.7.10 to fix an issue with timezone parsing on MacOS (#315).
• Listing pages are correctly filtered when using categories with special characters, encoded in URI (#332).
• distill now works with project folder containing special characters (#148).
• Improved handling for citations with multiple ids (show popup and include in Google Scholar metadata).
• css argument in distill_article() now supports new feature from rmarkdown::html_document_base() and will compile to CSS any .scss or .sass file.

distill v1.2

• Support for optional user display of source code via the code_folding option.
• Display citation popup when hovering over references.
• Definitely fix issue w/ importing articles from git repos with main default branch (#215).
• Fix an issue with highlighting on Windows when there is a space in the resource's path (#236).
• Add optional cookie consent overlay for opt-in to Google Analytics and Disqus.
• Support for including pages that use alternate R Markdown formats within Distill websites.
• Automatically register collections referenced in listings YAML metadata.
• Enhance create_article() function to create articles from alternate formats.
• Fix issue w/ broken images in search results for pages with no preview image.
• Fix issue w/ attempting to add non-site Rmds (e.g. README.Rmd) to search index.
• Fix issue w/ duplicate includes within website articles
• Suppress citation for individual articles/posts via citation: false metadata.
• Add sourceCode class to pre and code tags for downlit output.
• Fix issue w/ UTF-8 encoded characters in site _footer.html and listing creation.

distill v1.1

• Fixed issue with overflow: hidden for code blocks on mobile devices (is now overflow: auto).
• Improve full text search behavior w/ ignoreLocation: true and threshold: 0.
• Fix issue w/ importing articles from git repos with main default branch.
• Make headroom scroll tolerance a bit more forgiving (5px vs. 1px).

distill v1.0

• Add site search feature using Fuse.js (enabled by default for blog sites). Can be explicitly enabled or disabled for any site using the search field in the navbar key of _site.yml.

• Provide navbar link to website source code when source_url is provided in the navbar key of _site.yml.

• Use pandoc rather than distill for bibliography generation. Provides support for csl, nocite, and link-citations, as well as the use of multiple bibliographies (including non-BibTeX ones). Eliminates distill provided mouse-over citation display, but users seem to value the Pandoc features more than this one.

• Use pandoc rather than distill for code output (syntax highlighting themes can be customized using the highlight option). New default highlighting theme optimized for accessibility.

• Use the downlit package to syntax highlight R code chunks (controlled by the highlight_downlit option, which is enabled by default).

• More straightforward theming using the theme option (available for both articles and sites) and the create_theme() function.

• Provide heading anchor links in left margin on hover.

• Display article table of contents in the left sidebar. This is done only when the browser >= 1000 pixels wide, otherwise it's shown at the top.

• Added create_article() function for straightforward creation of new articles.

• Show author (below date) within article listings.

• Various improvements to category display, including showing categories on article pages and within article listings, adding a special "articles" category at the top that shows all articles, and display of the active category when a category filter is applied to a listing.

• Don't apply table td/th bottom border styles to gt tables.

• Support for orcid_id author metadata (displays next to author name).

• Added rename_post_dir() function for renaming post directories to reflect updated titles and publishing dates.

• Ensure that date fields in RSS feeds and sitemaps use en_US.UTF-8 locale.

distill v0.8 (CRAN)

• Generate RSS category feeds using rss/categories in site config
• Support rendering full RSS content when rss/full_content is TRUE in site config
• Ability to add custom HTML to top of sidebar.
• Provide aria attributes on toolbar icons
• Add "volume," "issue," "issn," and "publisher" fields for journal article BibTeX entries when those are provided in YAML.
• Provide alt text for logo image in navigation bar.
• Add support some missing Google Scholar meta tags such as citation_conference_title, citation_isbn, citation_firstpage, citation_lastpage, citation_dissertation_institution, citation_technical_report_institution, and citation_technical_report_number and their corresponding bibliography entries.

distill v0.7 (CRAN)

• Update to latest version of Distill template from https://github.com/distillpub/template

radix v0.6 (CRAN)

• Custom listing pages (e.g. gallery of featured posts)
• Support for bookdown-style figure cross-references (e.g. \@ref{fig:plot1})
• Allow use of markdown within footnotes
• Support for text headers within website navigation menus
• Fix issue with RStudio version check (check was failing with 4-digit patch version)
• Recover gracefully from invalid posts.json file (e.g. due to git merge)
• Syntax highlighting for unknown languages (now they are mapped to "clike", previously they were removed entirely)
• Correctly render favicon for articles in collections
• Provide option to show Disqus comments by default
• Fix issue with relative references to bibliographies from posts
• Fix intermediates_dir error that occurred when rendering from source on RStudio Connect
• Enable import_post() to work with file paths as well as URLs
• Set standard plot width to 6.5 inches (was 6.0, new width closer to golden ratio)
• Don't force plots in standard l-body layout to a width of 100%
• Forward check_license from import_post() to import_article()
• Normalize authors specified as plain strings to list form
• Use standard figure caption CSS treatment for table captions
• Provide default title ("Untitled") for articles that lack one
• Scroll horizontal overflow from code blocks on mobile devices
• Fix problem with mailto links within blog posts
• Render welcome post in New Radix Blog RStudio template

radix v0.5

• Initial CRAN release

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