From: Thomas Leitner on
## About kramdown

kramdown (sic, not Kramdown or KramDown, just kramdown) is a *free*
GPL-licensed [Ruby](http://www.ruby-lang.org) library for parsing a
superset of Markdown. It is completely written in Ruby, supports
standard Markdown (with some minor modifications) and various
extensions that have been made popular by the [PHP Markdown Extra]
package and [Maruku].

Homepage for installation instructions and documentation:
http://kramdown.rubyforge.org


## kramdown 0.10.0 released

This release contains many small changes and improvements as well as
many bug fixes, thanks to all the people on the kramdown mailing list!


## Changes

* Minor changes:

- The LaTeX converter now also outputs the element attributes on the
end tag (requested by Michael Franzl)
- New option `entity_output` for specifying how entities should be
output
- The underscore in the option names is now replaced with a hyphen
for nicer CLI option names
- Paragraphs that contain only an image are converted to figures in
the LaTeX converter (requested by Michael Franzl)
- Added information to the LaTeX converter documentation on how to
change the header types and quotation marks

* Bug fixes:

- LaTeX converter now outputs line breaks correctly (reported by
Michael Franzl)
- Always outputting the entities `zcaron` and `Zcaron` numerically
since browser support seems to be non-existing (reported by Eric
Sunshine)
- Fixed warnings and problems when running under Ruby 1.9.2-rc1
- Fixed problem with smart quote directly after smart quote output in
LaTeX converter (reported by Michael Franzl)
- Fixed problem in the HTML parser that prevented `<body
markdown="1">` from being processed correctly (reported by Eric
Sunshine)
- Blockquotes with multiple child elements are now output with the
`quotation` environment instead of the `quote` environment by the
LaTeX converter (reported by Michael Franzl)
- Fixed problem with parsing autolinks when using an encoding
different from UTF-8 (reported by Eric Sunshine)
- Fixed problem with parsing HTML `<a>` tag without `href` attribute
(reported by Eric Sunshine)

* Deprecation notes:

- The option `numeric_entities` is replaced by the new option
`entity_output` and will be removed in the next version
- The method `Kramdown::Converter::Html#options_for_element` has been
removed