2 Copyright 2002,2004,2006 Joel de Guzman, Eric Niebler
3 Copyright 2010-2013 Daniel James
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10 [chapter Language Versions
12 [compatibility-mode 1.5]
13 [id quickbook.versions]
14 [source-mode teletype]
17 [section:stable Stable Versions]
19 Since quickbook 1.3 the `quickbook` attribute in the document block selects
20 which version of the language to use. Not all changes to quickbook are
21 implemented using a version switch, it's mainly just the changes that change
22 the way a document is interpreted or would break existing documentation.
24 [heading Quickbook 1.3 and later]
26 * Introduced quickbook language versioning.
27 * In the documentation info, allow phrase markup in license and purpose
29 * Fully qualified section and headers. Subsection names are concatenated to the
30 ID to avoid clashing. Example: `doc_name.sect_name.sub_sect_name.sub_sub_sect_name`.
32 [heading Quickbook 1.5 and later]
34 * Ignore template argument separators inside square brackets.
35 * Don't separate the final template argument if the `..` separator was
36 used. i.e. never mix `..` and whitespace separators.
37 * Statically scope templates and their arguments rather than dynamically
39 * Give table ids, and let you set them.
40 * Allow spaces between the `:` character and ids in elements which can