Keep­ing with my new time-based re­lease sched­ule, to­mor­row is again rst2pdf re­lease day! What will be new in 0.7? Sev­er­al things!

• Fixed sev­er­al se­ri­ous bugs, spe­­cial­­ly with the han­dling of lit­er­al blocks (pre­­for­­mat­t­eds and code block­­s).

• Im­­ple­­men­t­ed a rather neat side­bar/float­ing block mech­a­nis­m. It on­­ly lets you go float-left or float-right but it looks bet­ter than what you get in HT­M­L, at least:

You can even use it to float al­most ar­bi­trary ob­ject­s, so you can have float­ing im­ages or float­ing fig­ures.

• Fixed the look of hy­per­links. Re­­port­lab had a bug about mak­ing some hy­per­links un­der­­lined, and those with a black thick un­der­­line. Not when you use rst2pdf! Mon­key-­­patched the heck out of that.

• Ta­ble styling. Let me show you:

The first row is a head­er row. It au­to­mat­i­cal­ly takes the table-­head­ing style.

The fol­low­ing rows are reg­u­lar, and they take the ta­ble style, which has sup­port for ze­bra ta­bles with al­ter­nat­ing col­ors (white and gray here).

The lone red cell at the right is spe­cial. Its con­tent is this:

.. class:: red

red

If you don't know ReST, that means "red" is a para­graph with class red, so it will be styled what­ev­er way that means (here: red back­ground).

Usu­al­ly that would mean you have a white (or gray) cell with a red para­graph in it. That looks in­cred­i­bly ug­ly.

So, rst2pdf tries to be clev­er: If there is a sin­gle el­e­ment in a cel­l, it will try to guess the cell back­ground from it.

And as you saw above, it works :-)