Changes in release 6

UDO 6 was published on Jan 3, 1997.

You will find here a very compressed list of the major changes of the last eight months. UDO supports now more destination formats, it supports new features and there were fixed a lot of bugs. In some cases it was impossible not to change the syntax of some commands.

New destination formats:

• Apple QuickView
• HP-HelpTag-SGML
• LyX
• NROFF
  I don't know if UDO really saves NROFF or if it is TROFF or GROFF. But you can already use it to make simple manpages for Unix systems.
• Destination formats C source code and Pascal source code
  Using these formats it is possible to edit a C or Pascal source code and its documentation in one file.
  UDO will print normal text using the comment characters of C or Pascal. The source code will be printed without conversion.

New commands:

• !autoref_items [off|on]: Shall UDO insert links in items of descriptions and lists?
• !code_mac, !code_hp8, !code_iso, !code_dos and !code_tos: UDO understands now the character sets of other operating systems.
• !country: Additional title page information.
• !html_backpage: For a back-link on the HTML title page.
• !html_keywords: For HTML meta information.
• !html_img_suffix: To enable you to use JPEG images etc.
• !html_nodesize: For changing the font size of HTML headlines.
• !ifos und !ifnos: For checking the operating system.
• !ignore_headline, !ignore_bottomline: For suppressing the headline or the bottomline of a specific node.
• !ignore_subtoc etc.: For suppressing the sub-table of contents inside a specific node.
• !ignore_links: For suppressing links to a specific node.
• !image*: For printing image captions without Figure #:.
• !image_counter: For changing the image counter.
• !no_index: For suppressing index command conversion.
• !no_toc_subnodes, !no_toc_subsubnodes, !no_toc_subsubsubnodes: For making the table of contents smaller.
• !no_preamble: Useful if you want to write your own preamble.
• !parwidth: For changing the paragraph width of the destination file.
• !rtf_charwidth: For changing the value UDO uses for calulating indents and cell widths.
• !set, !unset, !ifset, !ifnset: For setting and checking symbols.
• !sort_hyphen_file: Shall UDO sort the hyphen file and delete duplicates?
• !subsubsubnode etc.: A fourth layer.
• !table_counter: For changing the table counter.
• !table_caption*: For printing table captions without Table #:.
• !tabwidth: For setting the tabulator width for verbatim environments.
• !use_justification: Shall UDO generate justification?
• !use_nodes_inside_index, !use_alias_inside_index, !use_label_inside_index: For appending nodes, aliases and labels to the index.
• !use_output_buffer: Shall UDO use a buffer to make the references more perfect for HTML and Windows Help?
• !use_short_envs: For printing always compressed environments.
• !verbatimsize: For changing the font size of verbatim environments.
• !win_background: For changing the background color for Windows Help.
• !win_high_compression, !win_medium_compression: For setting the compression rate for Windows Help.
• !win_inline_bitmaps: Shall UDO use special RTF commands for using inline bitmaps?
• !win_charwidth: For changing the value UDO uses for calulating indents and cell widths.

News:

• You can use four layers now for Structure your text.
• Justification
• Macros and definitions can contain parameters. Thus, you can write your own commands in most cases.
• blist-, ilist- and tlist-environment
• right justified text (flushright environment)
• left justfied text (flushleft environment) for suppressing the justification
• You can use up to four email addresses on the title page now.
• UDO supports Italian (!language [italian]), Spanish (!language [spanish]) and Swedish (!language [swedish]) now.
• UDO can sort the hyphen file and delete duplicates.
• !no_umlaute converts now all international characters, not only the German umlauts.
• The source code was optimized. Although UDO supports lots of new commands this version of UDO runs faster than the old one.

Changes:

• The RTF output was programmed completely new. You can import UDO's RTF files without problems in WinWord.
• UDO saves a preamble for LaTeX 2.09 and LaTeX2e on its own (you can switch it off, if you want).
• UDO allows you to use many more nodes, table rows, hyphens, etc.
• UDO checks the source files more pedantically.
• Images are positioned like the outer text. To center an image you have to use the !image command inside a center environment. Thus, you can print left and right justified images, too.
• The suffix for ASCII files is now .txt.
• UDO doesn't break line between verb when converting to LaTeX.
• Graphic characters of the IBM PC character set will be replaced by +, – and | for Windows Help.

Syntax changes:

• !no_verbatim_umlaute replaces the switch !verbatim_no_umlaute
• The switch !list_parsep doesn't exist anymore. You can print compressed environment easier with !short now.
• The language of the destination file has to be set with the !language command now. !language [english] replaces the command !english.
• You can pass three index entries with one !index command now.
• !win_html_look doesn't exist anymore.
• Shadowed, hollow, outlined and framed text isn't supported anymore. But you can define your own commands with definitions if you need these text styles.