Wikitext 1.9 released

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A new version of the Wikitext gem, version 1.9, is now available. This release adds one major new feature — the ability to use custom lambda or Proc objects to apply custom CSS styling to links to non-existent pages — and some minor API enhancements. See the high-level or low-level release notes for more details.

Wikitext is a fast wikitext-to-HTML translator with a syntax very close to that used by MediaWiki. It is a Ruby extension written with speed and robustness in mind using a Ragel-generated scanner and an extremely fast hand-coded parser, all in C. It has an enormous spec suite.

You can browse the source code repo, or download the gem from the RubyForge downloads page. For an overview of how to use the extension check out the RDoc here. If you have RubyGems then you can install it with sudo gem install wikitext.

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