NEWS

distill v0.8 (CRAN)

Generate RSS category feeds using rss/categories in site config
Support rendering full RSS content when rss/full_content is TRUE in site config
Ability to add custom HTML to top of sidebar.
Provide aria attributes on toolbar icons
Add “volume,” “issue,” “issn,” and “publisher” fields for journal article BibTeX entries when those are provided in YAML.
Provide alt text for logo image in navigation bar.
Add support some missing Google Scholar meta tags such as citation_conference_title, citation_isbn, citation_firstpage, citation_lastpage, citation_dissertation_institution, citation_technical_report_institution, and citation_technical_report_number and their corresponding bibliography entries.

Update to latest version of Distill template from https://github.com/distillpub/template

Custom listing pages (e.g. gallery of featured posts)
Support for bookdown-style figure cross-references (e.g. \@ref{fig:plot1})
Allow use of markdown within footnotes
Support for text headers within website navigation menus
Fix issue with RStudio version check (check was failing with 4-digit patch version)
Recover gracefully from invalid posts.json file (e.g. due to git merge)
Syntax highlighting for unknown languages (now they are mapped to “clike”, previously they were removed entirely)
Correctly render favicon for articles in collections
Provide option to show Disqus comments by default
Fix issue with relative references to bibliographies from posts
Fix intermediates_dir error that occurred when rendering from source on RStudio Connect
Enable import_post() to work with file paths as well as URLs
Set standard plot width to 6.5 inches (was 6.0, new width closer to golden ratio)
Don’t force plots in standard l-body layout to a width of 100%
Forward check_license from import_post() to import_article()
Normalize authors specified as plain strings to list form
Use standard figure caption CSS treatment for table captions
Provide default title (“Untitled”) for articles that lack one
Scroll horizontal overflow from code blocks on mobile devices
Fix problem with mailto links within blog posts
Render welcome post in New Radix Blog RStudio template