UDO6 was released on January 3rd, 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:
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- New commands:
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- !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 operatin
system.
- !ignore_headline, !ignore_bottomline: For
suppressing the headline or the bottomline of a specific node.
- !ignore_subtoc und Verwandte: 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 und Verwandte: 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
referencation more perfectly 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 colour 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:
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- You can use four layers now for structuring your text.
- Justification
- Macros and definitions can contain parameters. Thus, you can
write your own commands in most cases.
- blist environment, ilist environment and tlist environment
- right justified text (flushright environment)
- left justfied text (flushleft environment) for suppressing the
justification
- You can use up to four E-Mail addresses on the title page now.
- UDO supports Italian (!language italian), Spanisch
(!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:
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- 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:
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- !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 !endlish.
- You can pass three index entries with one !index command
now.
- !win_html_look doesn't exist anymore.
- Shdowed, hollow, outlined and framed text isn't supported
anymore. But you can define your own commands with definitions if you
need these text styles.