rinohtype 0.2.1

reStructuredText Renderer

The easiest way to get started with rinohtype is to render a reStructuredText document (such as demo.txt) using the rinoh command line tool:

rinoh demo.txt

When the script finishes, you will find demo.pdf alongside the input file.

By default rinoh renders the input document using the article template. Run rinoh --help to see how you can tell rinoh which document template and style sheet to use.

Sphinx Builder

Rinohtype can be used as a drop-in replacement for the LaTeX builder (the latex_documents configuration variable has to be set). You only need to add 'rinoh.frontend.sphinx' to the extensions list in conf.py. With this in place, you can select the rinoh builder when building the documentation:

sphinx-build -b rinoh . _build/rinoh

Release 0.2.1 (2016-08-18)

New Features:

• optionally limit the width of large images and make use of this to simulate the Sphinx LaTeX builder behavior (#46)

• reStructuredText/Sphinx: support for images with hyperlinks (#49)

• record the styled page numbers in the PDF as page labels (#41)

• unsupported Python versions: prevent installation where possible (sdist) or exit on import (wheel)

• support Python 3.6

Bugfixes:

• make StyleSheet objects picklable so the Sphinx builder’s rinoh_stylesheet option can actually be used

• Fix #47: ClassNotFound exception in Literal_Block.lexer_getter()

• Fix #45: Images that don’t fit are still placed on the page

• don’t warn about duplicate style matches that resolve to the same style

Release 0.2.0 (2016-08-10)

Styling:

• generate a style log (show matching styles) to help style sheet development

• keep_with_next style attribute: prevent splitting two flowables across pages

• stylesheets can be loaded from files in INI format

• check the type of attributes passed to styles

• source code highlighting using Pygments

• table of contents entries can be styled more freely

• allow hiding the section numbers of table of contents entries

• allow for custom chapter titles

• selectors can now also select based on document part/section

• various small tweaks to selectors and matchers

• various fixes relating to style sheets

Templates:

• configurable standard document templates: article and book

• a proper infrastructure for creating custom document templates

• support for left/right page templates

• make the Article template more configurable

• pages now have background, content and header/footer layers

• support for generating an index

• make certain strings configurable (for localization, for example)

Frontends:

• Sphinx: interpret the LaTeX configuration variables if the corresponding rinohtype variable is not set

• Sphinx: roughly match the LaTeX output (document template and style sheet)

• added a CommonMark frontend based on recommonmark

• added basic ePUB and DocBook frontends

• XML frontends: fix whitespace handling

• frontends now return generators yielding flowables (more flexible)

Command-line Renderer (rinoh):

• allow specifying a template and style sheet

• automatically install typefaces used in the style sheet from PyPI

Fonts:

• typefaces are discovered/loaded by entry point

• more complete support for OpenType fonts

• fix support for the 14 base Type 1 fonts

Images:

• more versatile image sizing: absolute width/height & scaling

• allow specifying the baseline for inline images

• several fixes in the JPEG reader

Miscellaneous:

• reorganize the Container class hierarchy

• fixes in footnote handling

• drop Python 3.2 support (3.3, 3.4 and 3.5 are supported)

Release 0.1.3 (2015-08-04)

• recover from the slow rendering speed caused by a bugfix in 0.1.2 (thanks to optimized element matching in the style sheets)

• other improvements and bugfixes related to style sheets

Release 0.1.2 (2015-07-31)

• much improved Sphinx support (we can now render the Sphinx documentation)

• more complete support for reStructuredText (docutils) elements

• various fixes related to footnote placement

• page break option when starting a new section

• fixes in handling of document sections and parts

• improvements to section/figure/table references

• native support for PNG and JPEG images (drops PIL/Pillow requirement, but adds PurePNG 0.1.1 requirement)

• new ‘sphinx’ stylesheet used by the Sphinx builder (~ Sphinx LaTeX style)

• restores Python 3.2 compatibility

Release 0.1.1 (2015-04-12)

First preview release