Recent changes to feature-requestshttps://sourceforge.net/p/docutils/feature-requests/2026-04-09T18:40:36.718000ZRecent changes to feature-requests#89 Public API, versioning, and deprecation2026-04-09T18:40:36.718000Z2026-04-09T18:40:36.718000ZGünter Mildehttps://sourceforge.net/u/milde/https://sourceforge.net3f67944bd428728b904ceca2e138ffdcfca18742<div class="markdown_content"><p>I'd like to finalise/close this issue and apply the proposed API definition and backwards policy Commit <a class="alink" href="/p/docutils/code/10309/">[r10309]</a> updated the proposal <a href="https://docutils.sourceforge.io/docs/eps/ep-010.html" rel="nofollow">EP 10</a>. Unless someone objects, I'd apply the attached patch in 4 weeks to ship with Docutils 0.23. After this, Docutils will switch "semantic versioning".</p></div>#101 New "doctree" element for hard line breaks.2025-12-15T11:32:50.204000Z2025-12-15T11:32:50.204000ZGünter Mildehttps://sourceforge.net/u/milde/https://sourceforge.net31f1098260b1e96dcc5bb7fa11b291fdf6d2cfc8<div class="markdown_content"><p>Suggestion:</p>
<p>Introduce a new Doctree element <code><line_break></code> in Docutils 1.0</p>
<ul>
<li>add "br" to docutils.dtd and document it in <a href="https://docutils.sourceforge.io/docs/ref/doctree.html" rel="nofollow">https://docutils.sourceforge.io/docs/ref/doctree.html</a></li>
<li>add new class <code>docutils.nodes.line_break</code></li>
<li>add <code>visit_line_break()</code> and <code>depart_line_break()</code> methods to Docutils writers.</li>
</ul>
<p>New <a class="" href="https://docutils.sourceforge.io/docs/ref/rst/directives.html" rel="nofollow">standard directive</a> <code>line-break</code>. Similar to "replace", "date", and "unicode", this directive may only be used in substitution definitions, e.g.</p>
<div class="codehilite"><pre><span></span><code><span class="c">.. |br| .. line-break::</span>
I want a line break\ |br|
before this text.
</code></pre></div>
<p><a class="user-mention" href="/u/aa-turner/profile/">@aa-turner</a> what do you think?</p></div>#66 allow more characters when transforming "names" to "ids".2025-08-03T20:41:06.580000Z2025-08-03T20:41:06.580000ZGünter Mildehttps://sourceforge.net/u/milde/https://sourceforge.netbe840bdbff592a84d131bcbee6abf2bf9afcae7c<div class="markdown_content"><p>See also the discussion in <a class="" href="https://github.com/sphinx-doc/sphinx/issues/8709" rel="nofollow">Sphinx issue #8709</a>.</p></div>#5 Emacs support; decoration styles2025-07-30T09:26:01.229000Z2025-07-30T09:26:01.229000ZGünter Mildehttps://sourceforge.net/u/milde/https://sourceforge.net7234b54d510d575febd740000820a3414dd1e970<div class="markdown_content"><ul>
<li><strong>labels</strong>: --> emacs mode</li>
<li><strong>Group</strong>: --> Default</li>
</ul></div>#44 Add :figname: option to the figure directive2025-07-30T09:23:40.249000Z2025-07-30T09:23:40.249000ZGünter Mildehttps://sourceforge.net/u/milde/https://sourceforge.netfbc311c89c648a4429bf8ba00b65dc35fd2fc33a<div class="markdown_content"><ul>
<li><strong>status</strong>: open-fixed --> closed-fixed</li>
</ul></div>#57 add vh and vw as allowable length units2025-07-30T09:23:04.720000Z2025-07-30T09:23:04.720000ZGünter Mildehttps://sourceforge.net/u/milde/https://sourceforge.net6c014c378286338f6cea8ccf638274f5882de23b<div class="markdown_content"><ul>
<li><strong>status</strong>: open-fixed --> closed-fixed</li>
</ul></div>#60 Allow definition_list_item to have multiple terms2025-07-30T09:22:17.574000Z2025-07-30T09:22:17.574000ZGünter Mildehttps://sourceforge.net/u/milde/https://sourceforge.net769b6614e65ec0f715f77f3336828e1511e22682<div class="markdown_content"><ul>
<li><strong>status</strong>: open-fixed --> closed-fixed</li>
</ul></div>#60 Allow definition_list_item to have multiple terms2025-07-30T09:22:05.156000Z2025-07-30T09:22:05.156000ZGünter Mildehttps://sourceforge.net/u/milde/https://sourceforge.netc5856e5da40da2ab7662783eb1d87264e8e37559<div class="markdown_content"><p>The issue is fixed in Docutils 0.22 released 2025-07-29.<br/>
Possible support in reStrucuredText markup is discussed in <a class="alink" href="/p/docutils/patches/95/">[patches:#95]</a>.<br/>
Thank you for reporting.</p></div>#83 Support SVG images in LaTeX2025-07-30T09:19:48.603000Z2025-07-30T09:19:48.603000ZGünter Mildehttps://sourceforge.net/u/milde/https://sourceforge.netafd4858615095436898805bb9317979fedf8292c<div class="markdown_content"><ul>
<li><strong>status</strong>: open-fixed --> closed-fixed</li>
</ul></div>#94 Should docutils whine about nesting simple body elements?2025-07-30T09:17:33.657000Z2025-07-30T09:17:33.657000ZGünter Mildehttps://sourceforge.net/u/milde/https://sourceforge.netd0a7c5097bf52a79afd31e71d8247e2c3b400ae4<div class="markdown_content"><ul>
<li><strong>status</strong>: open-fixed --> closed-fixed</li>
</ul></div>