Properties of Block values are marshalled lazily, which generally
improves performance considerably. Script users may also notice the
following differences:
- Block element properties can no longer be accessed by numerical
indexing of the `.c` field. The `.c` property now serves as an alias
for `.content`, so some filter that used this undocumented method
for property access may continue to work, while others will need to
be updated and use proper property names.
- The marshalled Block elements now have a `show` method, and a
`__tostring` metamethod. Both return the Haskell string
representation of the element.
- Block values now have the Lua type `userdata` instead of `table`.
- Adds a new `pandoc.AttributeList()` constructor, which creates the
associative attribute list that is used as the third component of
`Attr` values. Values of this type can often be passed to constructors
instead of `Attr` values.
- `AttributeList` values can no longer be indexed numerically.
Attr values can now be given as normal Lua tables; this can be used as a
convenient alternative to define Attr values, instead of constructing
values with `pandoc.Attr`. Identifiers are taken from the *id* field,
classes must be given as space separated words in the *class* field. All
remaining fields are included as misc attributes.
With this change, the following lines now create equal elements:
pandoc.Span('test', {id = 'test', class = 'a b', check = 1})
pandoc.Span('test', pandoc.Attr('test', {'a','b'}, {check = 1}))
This also works when using the *attr* setter:
local span = pandoc.Span 'text'
span.attr = {id = 'test', class = 'a b', check = 1}
Furthermore, the *attributes* field of AST elements can now be a plain
key-value table even when using the `attributes` accessor:
local span = pandoc.Span 'test'
span.attributes = {check = 1} -- works as expected now
Closes: #5744
Traversal methods are updated to use the new Walk module such that
sequences with nested Inline (or Block) elements are traversed in the
order in which they appear in the linearized document.
Fixes: #5667
This makes use of tasty-lua, a package to write tests in Lua
and integrate the results into Tasty output. Test output becomes
more informative: individual tests and test groups become visible
in test output. Failures are reported with helpful error messages.
Albert Krewinkel