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• Added support for a page background (#138, evildead).
  • The variable page-background specifies the path to a background image for any page. The background image is scaled to cover the entire page.
  • The variable page-background-opacity specifies the background image opacity.
• Added an example on how to generate admonition boxes (#115). The example demonstrates the use of the filter pandoc-latex-environments to create custom admonition boxes with the awesomebox package.
• Added an example on how to compile Chinese documents (#140).
• Added a section on required LaTeX packages to the readme (#141). The section explains how to install the required packages with TeX Live and MiKtEX.
• Corrected the command tlmgr in README.md (#143).

• Fixed wrong margins when not using the titlepage option (#135).

• Clarified the location of the pandoc templates directory in the readme.
• Added missing $endif$ that caused a compilation failure (#125, 0az).
• Merged changes from the pandoc default LaTeX template.
• Fixed a bug where specifying a font via mainfont when using pdfLaTeX would not apply the default font Source Sans Pro.
• Improve formatting of footnotes with the variables footnotes-pretty and footnotes-disable-backlinks (#107, salim-b).
• Added the variable code-block-font-size to change the font size for code blocks via the supplied LaTeX command (#123, #17).
• Improve Japanese dummy text (#86, JKPOKE)
• Added an example on how to change header and footer (#109).
• Added example backgrounds to the titlepage example.
• Added support for background images on the title page with the variable titlepage-background (#31, #41).
• Disabled striped tables per default. Enable them with the variable table-use-row-colors: true (#29).
• Updated listings definition for Java which is the default language when using listings. This means that more keywords such as var from Java 10 are highlighted.
• Added support for additional keyword colors when using listings for syntax highlighting. The support depends on the used language. Some languages like motorola68k, x86masm, inform, llvm, lua, metapost, mupad, ocl, python, verrilog, basic, cil, fortran and hansl will have additional colors for some keywords.
• Fixed: Long lines in code blocks (verbatim environment) wrap automatically (#2).

• Fixed: The template now compiles with the output format beamer (#99). The styling for the generated slides is currently not customized.

• Fixed: Code blocks were too close to the text above.
• Fixed: The default float placement of figures can be changed with the variable float-placement-figure.
• Changed: Merged changes from the pandoc default LaTeX template.
• Added: A changelog is available as CHANGELOG.md.
• Changed: Updated installation instructions in the README with new XDG support (#89, Andrew Zhou).

• Merged changes from the pandoc default LaTeX template.
• Fixed: Support custom values for secnumdepth and toc-depth (#87, Juan Grigera).

• Removed double inclusion of package xcolor and cleaned up some comments.
• Removed unused \captionsetup[longtable].
• Moved listing colors to the listings block in the template.
• Changed the top and bottom spacing of listings.
• Merged changes from the pandoc default LaTeX template.
• Changed the release script to also create a tar.gz archive.

• Fixed curly quotes in code listings under XeTeX engine (#79, Andrew Hodgkinson).
• Merged changes from the pandoc default LaTeX template default.latex.
• Updated the installation instructions in the README and moved the release script to the tools folder.

• Defined a default pagestyle to make it easier to change the pagestyle on certain pages or define a custom one (see #77).
• Add support for first-chapter variable in case it's desirable for a book not to begin with chapter 1 (#74, umanovskis).

First release of the template as a ZIP file with the examples.