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* Release 6.27
@ 2009-05-23  6:35 Carsten Dominik
  2009-05-23  6:52 ` Russell Adams
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From: Carsten Dominik @ 2009-05-23  6:35 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: [Orgmode] Org-Mode

Hi,

I am finally releasing Org-mode 6.27, with lots of bug fixes
and some new stuff as well.

Enjoy!

- Carsten


Changes in Version 6.27
=======================

Macros for export
==================

Macro processing for export has been enhanced:

- You can use arguments in a macro, for example
   #+macro hello Greet the $1: Hello $1

   which would turn `{{{hello(world)}}}' into `Greet the world: Hello  
world'

- The macro value can be an emacs-lisp for to be evaluated at the
   time of export:

   #+macro: datetime (eval (format-time-string "$1"))


- More built-in default macros:
   date(FORMAT_TIME_STRING): Time/Date of export
   time(FORMAT_TIME_STRING): Same as date
   modification-time(FORMAT_TIME_STRING): Last modification of file
   input-file: Name of the input file

   The new built-in macros have been requested by Daniel Clemente.

Link completion for files and bbdb names
=========================================

Org now has a general mechanism how modules can provide enhanced
support (for example through completion) when adding a link.  For
example, when inserting a link with `C-c C-l', you can now type
`file:' followed by `RET' to get completion support for inserting
a file.  After entering `bbdb:' and `RET', a completion interface
will allow to complete names in the BBDB database.  These are the
only ones implemented right now, but modules that add a link type
`xyz:' can simple define `org-xyz-complete-link' that should
return the full link with prefix after aiding the used to create
the link.  For example, if you have `http' links that you have to
insert very often, you could define a function
`org-http-complete-link' to help selecting the most common ones.

Source file publishing
=======================

It is now easy to publish the Org sources along with, for
example, HTML files.  In your publishing project, replace

:publishing-function org-publish-org-to-html

with

  :publishing-function (org-publish-org-to-html org-publish-org-to-org)
  :plain-source t
  :htmlized-source t

to get both the plain org file and an htmlized version that
looks like your editing buffer published along with the HTML
exported version.

Push exported stuff to kill ring
=================================

All exporters now push the produced material onto the kill-ring
in Emacs, and also to the external clipboard and the primary
selection to make it easy to paste this under many circumstances.

Tables in LaTeX without centering
==================================
Set the variable `org-export-latex-tables-centered' to nil if you
prefer tables not to be horizontally centered.  Note that
longtable tables are always centered.

LaTeX export: TODO markup configurable
=======================================

The markup for TODO keywords in LaTeX export is now configurable
using the variable `org-export-latex-todo-keyword-markup'.

ASCII export to buffer
=======================

ASCII export has now the same command variations as the other
export backends, for example exporting to a temporary buffer
instead of a file.

The was a request by Samuel Wales.

Accessibility improvements for HTTP tables
===========================================

When exporting tables to HTML, Org now adds `scope' attributes to
all header fields, in order to support screen readers.
Setting the variable
`org-export-html-table-use-header-tags-for-first-column' will
request using `<th>' instead of `<td>' also in the entire first
column, so that also row information can be scoped.  This was
triggered by a request by Jan Buchal, and as usually Sebastian
Rose came up with the right implementation.

Timezone information in iCalendar files
========================================

The timezone information in iCalendar files is now written in the
correct format, and can be set in the variable
`org-ical-timezone'.  This variable is initialized from the `TZ'
environment variable.

New contributed package org-special-blocks.el
==============================================

The package turns any "undefined" `#+begin_...' blocks into LaTeX
environments for LaTeX export, and into `<div>' tags for HTML
export.

Thanks to Chris Gray for this contribution.

More flexibility about placing logging notes.
==============================================

Logging into a drawer can now also be set for individual
subtrees using the `LOG_INTO_DRAWER' property.

Requested by Daniel J. Sinder

New reload key
===============

Reloading Org has moved to a new key, `C-c C-x !', and is now
also available in the agenda.

Start Agenda with log mode active
==================================
Set the new option `org-agenda-start-with-log-mode' to have
log mode turned on from the start.  Or set this option for
specific custom commands.

Thanks to Benjamin Andresen for a patch to this effect.

Agenda speed optimizations
===========================

Depending on circumstances, construction the agenda has become a
lot faster.

Triggered by Eric S Fraga's reports about using Org on a slow
computer like a netbook.

New face for today in agenda
=============================

The date that is today can now be highlighted in the agenda by
customizing the face `org-agenda-date-today'.

Thanks to Dmitri Minaev for a patch to this effect.

Properties to disambiguate statistics
======================================

When an entry has both check boxes and TODO children, it is not
clear what kind of statistics a cookie should show  You can now use
the `COOKIE_DATA' property to disambiguate, by giving it a value
"todo" or "checkbox".

Thanks to Ulf Stegeman, who was persistent enough to push this
change past my initial resistance.

Checkboxes and TODO items: recursive statistics
================================================

Setting the variable `org-hierarchical-checkbox-statistics' to
`nil' will make statistics cookies count all checkboxes in the
lit hierarchy below it.

Setting the variable `org-hierarchical-todo-statistics' to
`nil' will do the same for TODO items.

To turn on recursive statistics only for a single subtree, add the
word "recursive" to the `COOKIE_DATA' property.  Note that you
can have such a property containing both "todo" or "checkbox" for
disambiguation, and the word "recursive", separated by a space
character.

The change for checkboxes was a patch by Richard Klinda.

New operators for column view
==============================

Column view has new operators for computing the minimum,
maximum, and mean of property values.

Thanks to Mikael Fornius for a patch to this effect.

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