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#89 Public API, versioning, and deprecation

Günter Milde — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 18:40:36 -0000

I'd like to finalise/close this issue and apply the proposed API definition and backwards policy Commit [r10309] updated the proposal EP 10. 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".

#101 New "doctree" element for hard line breaks.

Günter Milde — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 11:32:50 -0000

Suggestion:

Introduce a new Doctree element <line_break> in Docutils 1.0

add "br" to docutils.dtd and document it in https://docutils.sourceforge.io/docs/ref/doctree.html
add new class docutils.nodes.line_break
add visit_line_break() and depart_line_break() methods to Docutils writers.

New standard directive line-break. Similar to "replace", "date", and "unicode", this directive may only be used in substitution definitions, e.g.

.. |br| .. line-break::

I want a line break\ |br|
before this text.

@aa-turner what do you think?

#66 allow more characters when transforming "names" to "ids".

Günter Milde — Sun, 03 Aug 2025 20:41:06 -0000

See also the discussion in Sphinx issue #8709.

#5 Emacs support; decoration styles

Günter Milde — Wed, 30 Jul 2025 09:26:01 -0000

labels: --> emacs mode
Group: --> Default

#44 Add :figname: option to the figure directive

Günter Milde — Wed, 30 Jul 2025 09:23:40 -0000

status: open-fixed --> closed-fixed

#57 add vh and vw as allowable length units

Günter Milde — Wed, 30 Jul 2025 09:23:04 -0000

status: open-fixed --> closed-fixed

#60 Allow definition_list_item to have multiple terms

Günter Milde — Wed, 30 Jul 2025 09:22:17 -0000

status: open-fixed --> closed-fixed

#60 Allow definition_list_item to have multiple terms

Günter Milde — Wed, 30 Jul 2025 09:22:05 -0000

The issue is fixed in Docutils 0.22 released 2025-07-29.
Possible support in reStrucuredText markup is discussed in [patches:#95].
Thank you for reporting.

#83 Support SVG images in LaTeX

Günter Milde — Wed, 30 Jul 2025 09:19:48 -0000

status: open-fixed --> closed-fixed

#94 Should docutils whine about nesting simple body elements?

Günter Milde — Wed, 30 Jul 2025 09:17:33 -0000

status: open-fixed --> closed-fixed