Changes in release 6 PL 14

UDO 6 Patchlevel 14 was published on Jul 11, 1999.

Here you find here a very compressed list of the major changes compared to the last release. 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 target formats:

• WinHelp4
• UDO
• PDFLaTeX
• DRC (David's Readme Compiler für DOS)
• IPF (Information Presentation Facility, OS/2)
• PostScript
• C sourcecode
• Pascal sourcecode
• AmigaGuide

New commands:

• !use_mirrored_indices
• !begin_flushleft, !end_flushleft
• !begin_flushright, !end_flushright
• !table_caption*
• !image*
• !html_backimage, !html_backcolor, !html_textcolor, !html_linkcolor,
• !html_no_xlist
• !html_ignore_8bit
• !chaptericon
• !no_footers
• !begin_comment, !end_comment, !cinclude, !comment, (!KKW [comment!])
• !win_helpid
• !no_links
• !html_modern_layout, !html_modern_width, !html_modern_backcolor, !html_modern_backimage !html_alinkcolor, !html_vlinkcolor, !html_modern_alignment
• !html_frames_layout, !html_frames_width !html_frames_backcolor, !html_frames_backimage, !html_frames_height <value>, !html_frames_position <text>, !html_frames_textcolor, !html_frames_linkcolor, !html_frames_alinkcolor, !html_frames_vlinkcolor
• !html_counter_command
• !wh4_helpid, !wh4_charwidth, !wh4_propfont, !wh4_backcolor, !wh4_textcolor, !wh4_background, !wh4_inline_bitmaps, !wh4_high_compression, !wh4_old_keywords, !wh4_prefix_helpids
• !win_monofont, !wh4_monofont
• !win_textcolor
• !begin_linedraw, !end_linedraw, !ldinclude, !linedrawsize
• !hh_backimage, !hh_backcolor, !hh_textcolor, !hh_linkcolor, !hh_alinkcolor, !hh_vlinkcolor, !hh_img_suffix
• !html_description
• !drc_bcolor, !drc_icolor, !drc_ucolor, !drc_flags
• !udolink
• !use_auto_toptocs []
• !error <text>
• !begin_node*, !begin_pnode, !begin_pnode*
• !input
• !rtf_keep_tables [on|off]
• !html_button_alignment [left|center|right]
• !chaptericon_active
• !begin_ignore, !end_ignore
• !subtoc_offset, !subsubtoc_offset, !subsubsubtoc_offset
• !index
• !chaptericon_text
• !html_propfont_name, !html_propfont_size
• !html_monofont_name, !html_monofont_size
• (!raw)
• !mapping
• !tex_miktex
• !no_img_size
• !table_alignment
• !image_alignment
• !no_popup_headlines
• !use_raw_header <file>, !use_raw_footer <file>, !ignore_raw_header, !ignore_raw_footer
• !win_old_keywords
• !no_table_lines
• !html_transparent_buttons
• (!url)
• !use_auto_helpids
• !win_prefix_helpids

News:

• flushleft environment
• flushright environment
• Support of dutch language (!language [dutch]).
• support of NeXTStep character set (!code)
• !docinfo [webmastername] creates footer line at the end of each HTML page.
• The commands that output a table of contents support an additional switch to specify the depth of the generated table.
• Command line option --force-long.
• Command line options --c-idfile and --pas-idfile.
• Command line option -@.
• comment environment
• UDO can create frames now with !html_frames_layout.
• linedraw environment
• The RTF header includes a color table now.
• you can structure your document by use of !begin_node and !end_node now.
• !use_nodes_inside_index [rtf], !use_label_inside_index [rtf] and !use_alias_inside_index [rtf] are supported.
• The RTF format supports images.
• ignore environment
• Command line option --map.
• Command abbreviations can be used.
• UDO detects the dimensions of GIF images now.
• Command line option --check.
• Character sets !code and !code
• User defined header and footer for HTML.
• Command line option --map-pas.
• Help-IDs can be generated automatically with !use_auto_helpids
• Command line option --force-short.
• The output of images when using !use_auto_toptocs can be suppressed with !no_icons.

Changes:

• You can use up to 3000 chapters now.
• !verbatimsize is supported for HTML.
• On systems supporting long filenames, UDO uses now 3 digits per level instead of 2 (001002003004.html instead of 01020304.html).
• The entries of tables of contents are partially managed dynamically now.
• The title page is managed dynamically now, to prevent problems with entries being too long.
• Up to 4096 Nodes and labels/aliases.
• Extensive optimizations.
• UDO can include files with spaces in the filename now.
• If you use !tabwidth 0, UDO does not convert tab characters in verbatim and sourcecode environments.
• UDO generate an error message now when using !maketitle without having set any information for the title page.
• If you use !heading, !subheading etc. in a center or flushright environment, the headings will be justified accordingly.
• If you use !html_keywords more than once in a node, the entries will be concatenated, separated by a comma.
• The number of symbols you can use has been increased from 32 to 128.
• !image can display images with spaces in the file name.
• Dual and triple indices are correctly exported for RTF now.
• The first HTML page will only include a home symbol if you use !html_backpage.
• The term Hints in the logfile has been changed to Notes.
• UDO will output the version number in the logfile.
• When using (!img), UDO will output an error message if the dimensions of the image cannot be detected.
• The suffix of the MAP file for WinHelp has been changed to .hpc.
• When using !chaptericon, UDO will output an error message if the image file could not be found.
• If you use !no_images, the HTML output won't contain browse buttons but ASCII arrows that are separated by brackets and pipe symbols. Additionaly the "top tocs" won't contain any images.
• The commands !subtoc, !subsubtoc and !subsubsubtoc all cause the same output now, so the only sensible table of contents will be generated. This prevents problems when using !begin_node and !end_node.
• Up to 1000 characters can be used in a table cell now.
• The number of macros and definitions has been increased to 1000. The number of nodes has been increased to 32,768.
• The date format of !language [french] has been adopted (Didier Briel).
• You have to avoid using umlauts or other special characters in filenames included with the !image command.

Syntax changes:

• The switch for justification has been renamed from !use_justified to !use_justification.
• The switch !html_use_xlist does not exist any more.
• !german, !english, !french etc. don't exist any more and have been replaced by the !language command.
• !no_toc_subnodes can be replaced by !tableofcontents !depth 1 now.
• The commands to switch the character set have changed. The command !code replaces the old commands code_dos, code_hp8, code_iso, code_mac, code_next and code_tos.
• The commands to set information for the title page have changed. Instead of title, program, version, date, author, street, town, country and email the new command !docinfo [ ] has to be used.
• The commands for specific destination formats have changed: !raw [asc] replaces !asc, !raw [stg] replaces !stg, !raw [win] replaces !win, etc.
• The switch !stg_no_database has been replaced by !docinfo [stgdatabase].
• !win_backcolor replaces the switch !win_background.
• The color names have changed and were adopted to the HTML 3.2 specification.