CHANGES IN bookdown VERSION 1.3

NEW FEATURES

• Easier and faster. bookdownplus() can render the demo files automatically. If you don't like the automatic building, you can use the argument render = FALSE in bookdownplus() to switch it off.
• Options to export epub, html, and word documents.
• New functions:
  • more_output(): display available output formats besides pdf_book
  • template(): display available templates
  • mail_bodysize(): display available fontsize for mail body
  • mail_font(): display available fonts for mail body
  • mail_fontsize(): display available fontsize for mail template
  • mail_style(): display available styles for mail template
  • mail_theme(): display available themes for mail template
  • poster_theme() which lists available poster themes.
• More templates:
  • 'discussion', for academic article in discussion format.
  • 'thesis_mypku', in Chinese, the master thesis template I used more than ten years ago.
  • 'nte_zh', in Chinese, for novels.
• 'mail' template updates:
  • more styles,
  • more themes.
• 'poster' template updates:
  • More themes added: ice and ocean.

MAJOR CHANGES

• A template name ended with _zh means this template supports Chinese characters.

MINOR CHANGES

• Switched off warnings when creating folders.
• Argument output_name added.

BUG FIXES

• ​A bug in thesis_classic fixed.