The guide of UDO

History
A very short description of the major changes I added to this
release for the last five months is listed here. It wasn't possible to
prevent a change of the syntax of some commands.
- New destination formats:
- New commands:
- !alias
- !begin_raw, !end_raw inside the raw environment
you can enter special commands for a destination format
- !begin_table, !end_table setting tables like in LaTeX!
- !chapterimage an image can be used for the title of a
chapter
- !define
- !french for French expressions
- !heading, !subheading, !subsubheading,
!subsubsubheading for displaying headlines
- !hline for displaying horizontal lines
- !html_name to set the filename of a chapter
- !html_merge_nodes, !html_merge_subnodes, !html_merge_subsubnodes for merging
chapters when converting to HTML
- (!ilink) for displaying images with links inside the
text, Windows Help and HTML only
- (!img) for displaying images inside the text, Windows
Help and HTML only
- !index for setting an index entry
- !list_parsep for switching the use of empty lines between
items of an environment
- !ifdest, !else, !endif for special
passages
- !iflang, !else, !endif for special
passages with different languages
- !node*, !subnode*, !subsubnode*,
!pnode*, !psubnode*, !psubsubnode* for chapters that
don't appear inside a table of contents
- !rinclude for including special commands
- !use_about_udo
- !use_chapter_images for displaying images instead of chapter
titles
- !use_style_book
- !win_html_look for using grey inside a Windows Help file
- Changes:
- You can display tables very easily. You can define how to
justify columns and where to draw horizontal and vertical lines.
- The layout of the environments was programmed completely new.
Now you can use up to six environments inside another, the xlist
environment, too! UDO generates a correct output for Windows Help and
RTF.
- The semiautomatic syllabification was programmed completely
new.
- UDO now references only complete words.
- You can use 1024 chapters and 1024 labels now.
- You can use up to 200 links inside a paragraph. Due to a bug
you could only use 16 links inside a complete document in release 4.
- Manualpages are layouted completely new.
- Paintbrush PCX images are supported for emTeX.
- The output of Windows Help was updated in many cases!
- The Atari versions were compiled with MiNT libs PL46.
- Syntax changes:
Innumerous. ;-)
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Last updated on November 5, 2006