An environment is a part of a source file that has to be converted in a special way. Environments will be started with !begin_ and finished with !end_. The commands have to be the first words of a line. They may be indented by spaces or tabs.
UDO offers you a large range of environments that will help you to layout your text and to insert special commands:
| appendix environment: | appendix |
| center environment: | centered text |
| comment environment: | comments |
| description environment: | descriptions |
| document environment: | documentation contents |
| enumerate environment: | enumerations |
| flushleft environment: | left justified text |
| flushright environment: | right justified text |
| ignore environment: | ignore text |
| itemize environment: | itemizations |
| linedraw environment: | display graphic screenshots |
| preformatted environment: | preformatted text |
| quote environment: | indented text |
| raw environment: | special commands for the destination format |
| table environment: | tables |
| verbatim environment: | preformatted text |
| xlist environment: | lists |
| sourcecode environment: | source code |
In the relevant sections you can find out how the text of an environment is formatted.