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< h1 class = "title" > October 2021< / h1 >
< p class = "subtitle" role = "doc-subtitle" > Release 9.5< / p >
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Turns out that life became busy enough that instead of delaying, last month’ s
post had to be cancelled. We’ re now back to business as usual though 🙂.
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There have been some cool recent developments in Org over the past two months,
but you’ ll have to learn about those is next month’ s edition as < i > Org 9.5 has been
released< / i > 🎉. So, let’ s go over some of the changes I’ m most excited about, in no
particular order. To get a more complete picture of the latest changes, see
< a href = "https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs/org-mode.git/tree/etc/ORG-NEWS?h=release_9.5#n14" > < span class = 'acr' > ORG< / span > -< span class = 'acr' > NEWS< / span > < / a > .
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< h2 id = "new-citation-engine" > The new citation engine< a aria-hidden = "true" href = "#new-citation-engine" > #< / a > < / h2 >
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As tempted as I am to wax lyrical about the lovely new citation engine, I’ ve
already dedicated < a href = "2021-07-31-citations.html" > July’ s post< / a > to it, and so will simply highlight how versatile
the syntax is. Combined with the ability to swap out the default backends
(basic, < span class = 'acr' > CSL< / span > , natbib, and bib(la)tex) for a 3rd party backend (for example,
provided by a package) it is capable of meeting your citation and technical
document publishing needs, whatever they may be.
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< figcaption > < span class = "figure-number" > Figure 1: < / span > The full citation syntax< / figcaption >
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Since the announcement of org-cite, the ecosystem has continued to expand with a
number of promising packages like Bruce D’ Arcus’ < a href = "https://github.com/bdarcus/citar" > citar< / a > (previously
< i > bibtex-actions< / i > ), which currently provides what is arguably the best citation
insertion experience.
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< figcaption > < span class = "figure-number" > Figure 2: < / span > Inserting a citation with the < i > citar< / i > package< / figcaption >
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Since being featured in < a href = "2021-05-31-async.html" > May’ s post< / a > , we’ ve had the initial python support
expanded with support for R too. I have good reason to believe that more
backends will join this list in the future.
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To get started, just add < kbd > :async< / kbd > to the header arguments of Python or R source
blocks with a < kbd > :session< / kbd > .
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< h2 id = "latex-environment-results" > LaTeX environment < kbd > #+results< / kbd > are now removed< a aria-hidden = "true" href = "#latex-environment-results" > #< / a > < / h2 >
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LaTeX environments (i.e. < code class = "src src-LaTeX" > < span class = "org-font-latex-sedate" > < span class = "org-keyword" > \begin< / span > < / span > {} ... < span class = "org-font-latex-sedate" > < span class = "org-keyword" > \end< / span > < / span > {}< / code > blocks) have been added
to the list of < kbd > #+results< / kbd > types that will be removed. This is bigger news than
one might think, as it means that raw LaTeX environments are now a viable output
for org-babel backends. This possesses a distinct advantage over < kbd > :results latex< / kbd >
as LaTeX environments can be rendered inline with < code > org-latex-preview< / code > and are
exported to more formats — for example < span class = 'acr' > HTML< / span > with MathJax.
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This is likely going to be first seen in the new < kbd > ob-julia< / kbd > backend (unreleased,
currently in early development), but could well be utilised by other backends
such as < kbd > ob-octave< / kbd > , < kbd > ob-mathematica< / kbd > (in contrib), < kbd > ob-python< / kbd > (using < code > SymPy< / code > ), < kbd > ob-calc< / kbd >
and more.
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A number of new faces have been introduced to allow for improved theming
capability, and better contextual hints in the agenda, namely:
< code > org-agenda-date-weekend-today< / code > , < code > org-imminent-deadline< / code > ,
< code > org-agenda-structure-secondary< / code > , and < code > org-agenda-structure-filter< / code > .
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Inline export snippets are now also fontified using the < code > org-tag< / code > and
< code > font-lock-comment-face< / code > faces, to better stand out from surrounding text.
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< h2 id = "more-link-formatting" > More link formatting options with org-capture< a aria-hidden = "true" href = "#more-link-formatting" > #< / a > < / h2 >
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A new formatting directive, < code > %L< / code > has been introduced which provides the bare link
target. This allows for links with automatically generated descriptions 🙂.
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The < span class = 'acr' > HTML< / span > and LaTeX backends have both been given some love in this release of
Org.
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The < span class = 'acr' > HTML< / span > backend now supports customisation of the < kbd > < meta> < / kbd > tags included with
< code > org-html-meta-tags< / code > , which should be particularly useful to anybody using
< kbd > org-publish< / kbd > for blogs or websites (in fact, this blog has been making use of it
for some time now). A new variable has been introduced to help with styling,
< code > org-html-content-class< / code > (< kbd > "content"< / kbd > by default) which is used as the < span class = 'acr' > CSS< / span > class for
the top-level content wrapper. To further improve styling capabilities,
< code > org-html-style-default< / code > and < code > org-html-scripts< / code > have been changed from constants to
customisable variables.
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The LaTeX backend (< kbd > ox-latex< / kbd > ) no longer has obsolete LaTeX packages in
< code > org-latex-default-packages-alist< / code > (< kbd > grffile< / kbd > and < kbd > texcomp< / kbd > have been removed).
It also now supports arbitrary < kbd > :float< / kbd > argument values, and accepts a six new
arguments (in total) for verse (< kbd > :lines< / kbd > , < kbd > :center< / kbd > , < kbd > :versewidth< / kbd > , and < kbd > :latexcode< / kbd > )
and quote blocks (< kbd > :environment< / kbd > and < kbd > :options< / kbd > ).
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To reduce the maintainer burden, the < kbd > contrib/< / kbd > folder and a collection of
rarely-used or barely-maintained < kbd > ob-*< / kbd > backends have been moved to a new repo,
< a href = "https://git.sr.ht/~bzg/org-contrib" > org-contrib< / a > . Support for Emacs 24 (2012– 2014) has also been dropped, and Org
will now aim to support the three most recent major versions of Emacs.
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