From: why the lucky stiff <ruby-talk@...>
Date: 2005-02-07T02:25:03+09:00
Subject: RedCloth 3.0.3 -- Humane Text for Ruby

Hello.  Another new RedCloth.  I'm just pushing these out so we can get 
stable as soon as possible.  This release contains a few small fixes and 
appears to be stable.

RedCloth is a processor for Textile and a subset of Markdown.  Both are 
text formats which can be transformed into XHTML 1.0 Strict.

More about RedCloth here: http://www.whytheluckystiff.net/ruby/redcloth/

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Let me give you a roadmap of what to expect with RedCloth 3 in the 
coming months.

RedCloth 3.1 will focus on getting us diverse outputs.  I am reconciling 
LaTeX and Docbook patches right now.  I also have a ClibPDF patch.

Here's how these output plugins will work.

1. Output libraries will be named according to the name of their output 
method:

  require 'redcloth'
  require 'redcloth/to_pdf'

2. The output method will pass its options to RedCloth's `convert_to' 
method.  In this example, a ClibPDF is passed in and the Textile 
fragment is added to the PDF.

  class RedCloth
    def to_pdf( pdf, *rules )
      @pdf = pdf
      convert_to( :pdf, rules )
    end
  end

3. The `convert' method will process Textile rules, calling methods 
named with the format prefix.

  class RedCloth
    def pdf_h1( tag, atts, cite, content )
       @pdf.newline
       @pdf.textPara( "NewCenturySchlbk-Roman", 14.0, LEFT, 0.0, 0.2, 
content )
    end
  end

Once these output plugins are in place, I'll finish up the remaining 
Markdown syntax in RedCloth 3.2.

_why